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Perhaps… I won’t claim to have any insider knowledge here. And I know that in the tech world things can move fast. But personally, I’ll be really surprised if Z-wave is phased out in 5 years.

The big thing here is that unlike many competing technologies (Betamax vs. VHS, BluRay-Ray vs. HD-DVD, Zip Drive vs. LS-120/SuperDisk), Zigbee and Z-wave can play together. As so many ST users demonstrate Zigbee and Z-wave networks can play nice with each other.

It’s more DVD+R vs. DVD-R… once optical drives could be made to read and write to both, it became rather meaningless one vs. the other.

I strongly suspect that the actual cost to include the z-wave radio in a hub and the software to support it are not monumental. So as long as z-wave devices are still made or still commonly available or still heavily installed in users homes, Hub manufacturers will still support it.

Again, I’m no great insider… I might be way off base. 3, 4, 5 years from now you might re-open this treat and laugh at my lack for fore-sight (at which point I’ll call you a meany-poo poo head, take my ball and go home). Only time will tell for sure.

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I just got a Centralite 3 Series zigbee smart control garage opener (3220). However, i can’t find a suitable DTH to use with this device. I’ve tried a few of the garage door opener types in the IDE, but they don’t appear to do anything to the controller (at least, no flashing lights when using it).

Does anyone have a DTH for the Centralite 3220?

Thanks!

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That’s because (I think) those DTH’s are all for zwave based openers, not zigbee like what you’ve got. You’ll need to create your own DTH. You could try a zigbee switch DTH just to see if that trips the devices and opens/closes the door,but the sensor state won’t be available.

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Thanks - I did try the generic Zigbee switch type, no response. I guess I’ll have to write my own DTH, was hoping someone else had done a Zigbee garage door DTH in the past that I could use or modify.

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Where did​ you buy that?

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Leftover from a company HA project. Never sold as far as I can see.