Received my Z-Wave chip & Enclosure - Surely I'm doing something wrong here...

[B34N]

Will there be any differences between this adapter board version and the future non-adapter version? I'm moving over a sizable z-wave network currently on a Aeotec Z-stick and I would rather wait four months and get the updated version than risk having to deal with differences moving forward. Moving a z-wave network from one master to another is time consuming (PITA).

Also, would the EU and US versions need different openHAB snapshots or some modifications after installing a snapshot?

[tycoonbob]

For what its worth, I've made my peace with this issue. I like the case, minus the difficulty to take the top back off, and I think I'm a lot happier with my Z-Stick than I would be the Z-Wave module.

Further, I have decided to go with Home Assistant instead of OpenHAB.

Here's my end result:
http://i.imgur.com/KNGeFmL.jpg

And if anyone wants to give Home Assistant a go with a Z-Wave stick, here's a guide I wrote up:
https://deviantengineer.com/2016/09/hass-dietpi/

Really happy with the Pine's performance, at least so far.

[KablammoNick]

I also posted this in the only other Z-Wave discussion thread I could find, but I (finally) received the AU version of the Z-Wave module and ABS case and it looks like they've sorted out the issue with it not fitting - http://imgur.com/gallery/lTZ64

Hopefully have OpenHAB up and running soon!

[cid]

Figured i'd show my solution to the Z-Wave module not fitting in the Pine64 case. Of course as usual for me I did not think to take any pictures till it was done, but it was pretty straight forward so not too hard to figure out what I did.

First was the Pine64 case top, I cut out a couple ribs to see how much extra clearance that gave.

Then the tricky part, first I desoldered the pins from the Z-Wave module.

Then on the the adapter I removed the plastic from those pins and straightened the pins out.

Then put the Z-Wave module down over those pins, soldered it together, them cut off the excess pin length

http://imgur.com/sj5a9t8

http://imgur.com/ODtHozn

http://imgur.com/6hLtZLH

So it just barely fits, but it works.

It was definitely not easy to desolder and solder something that small for me, as I do not have much experience soldering. But it worked and I'm happy it fits in the case now.