Philio PAU01 User manual

PAU01
Z-Wave Dongle
Introduction
The “Philio Z-Wave Utility” application is a tool for Philio RD testing, and also suitable
for product line testing in factory.
The purpose of this manual is to help user familiar the functionality of the
application, and operate the user interface.
This tool is for Z-Wave product, some concept of the Z-Wave network, or the
specification of the Z-Wave command, please refer to the Z-Wave SDK first.
Specifications
perating Voltage DC5V/1A from USB
perating Temperature -10°C - 55°C (85% humidity)
Storage Temperature -30 C ~ 85°C
RF Range (distance) Minimum 40M in door and 100M in outdoor, line of
sight
Frequency Range 868.40MHz; 869.85MHz (EU)
908.40MHz; 916.00MHz (US)
916.00 MHz (IL), (Israel), (PAU01-IL)
920~924MHz (Taiwan; Korea)
RF Power +5dBm
FCC ID RHHPAU01
** Specifications are subject to change and improvement without notice.
Troubleshooting
Symptom Cause of Failure Recommendation
The device can not
join to Z Wave™
network
The device may in a Z
Wave™ network.
Exclude the device
then include again.
For Instruction to http:// www.philio tech.com
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1. Installation
1.1. Install Dongle Driver
The dongle need the PC driver.
Please extract the “ZW040x_USB_VCP_PC_Driver.zip”. There is a
uzb.inf file.
Insert the dongle to the PC, in the first time, the PC will issue the
driver can't found. You can observe the Control Panel → System and
Security → System → Hardware → Device Manager
Click the “Device Manager”.
Right Click the “Unknown device”. And select “Update Driver
Software…”
Click “Browse my computer for driver software”.

Fill the driver file location. And click “Next”.
Select “Install this driver software anyway”.
Wait a while.
Install OK.
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1.2 Install Application
Extract the “PhilioZWaveUtil.7z” to the folder whatever you want, but
please don’t install on the remote disk, it may cause some error.
Insert the dongle into the PC USB socket. And then execute the
“PhilioZWaveUtil.exe” to start the application.
Note: This tool is designed by .Net Framework, you need to install .Net
Framework 4.0 before running the application. You can easily use the
“Windows Update” to install that. Windows 7 already install .Net
Framework in default.
2. Start
Insert the USB dongle, and execute the “PhilioZWaveUtil.exe” to start
the application. If the application can’t find the USB dongle, it will
show the pop window, and click the OK button to close the application.
Figure 1 USB dongle not found
Normally, the application will read controller information from the USB
dongle; you can see the progress bar is running.
Figure Reading the information of the controller
After finish, it will show the basic information of the dongle.
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Home ID:
The home ID of the controller.
Node ID:
The node ID of the controller. If the controller is secondary
controller, this value may not be 1.
Primary:
Is the dongle is the primary controller?
Secondary:
Is the dongle is the secondary controller?
SIS Exist:
Is the Z Wave network exist the SIS?
SUC:
Is this dongle is the SUC?
SUC ID:
If the SUC is exist, which node ID is.
COM Port:
The application is using which COM port to communicate with USB
dongle.
3. Binding
This function tab is for user to maintain the Z Wave network, include
or remove a device from the network, or add dongle to the other
network.
Figure 4 Binding page
The binding page has 5 parts:
1. Controller Info:
The information of the controller.
2. Main Function:
Include or exclude the device from the network, and also can add
the dongle to the other network.
3. Controller Function:
User can abort the operation, reload or reset the information of
the controller.
4.Device List:
Display the device information of the controller.
5. Message:
Display the operation result or the status.
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Figure 3 Display the basic information of the controller

3.1. Include Device
Add a Z Wave device to the Z Wave network, the controller should
include it. But before you execute the include operation, please make
sure that device is not be included to other network. If it is, please
operate the exclude procedure first.
To execute the include operation; please press the “Include” button.
The all buttons of the main function part will be disabled. And the
controller will into to inclusion mode. If you want to abort the include
operation, please press the “Abort” button in the controller function
part.
Figure 5 Controller into inclusion mode
Now press the learning key on the device, usually the Z Wave devices
made from Philio, press the learning key three times the device will
into the learn mode. If the controller got that message, the UI will
show a progress bar, the dongle will query some information from the
device.
Figure 6 Query the information from the device
After all done, the all buttons of the main function part will recover,
and in the device list part will add a new device record. The message
part will show a new device was added, and which node id it is.
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Figure 7 Include a new device
PS: In the including procedure, you may saw the “Report Form” pop
up. More information of the “Report Form”, please refer to the “8
Report Form”.
3.2. Exclude Device
Remove the Z-Wave device from the Z-Wave network, the controller should
exclude it.
To execute the exclusion operation, please press the “Exclude” button.
The all buttons of the main function part will be disabled. And the
controller will into to the exclusion mode. If you want to abort the
exclude operation, please press the “Abort” button in the controller
function part.
Figure 8 Controller into exclusion mode
Now remove the device from the controller, press the learning key
three times. If the controller got the message, the controller will
remove it.
The all buttons of the main function part will recover, and in the device
list part will remove that device record. The message part will show a
device was removed, and which node id it is.
Figure 9 Exclude a device
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4. Report Form
The “Report Form” will show up, when the dongle receive the report
from the other devices. For instance, you send a “Basic Get” command
to the device, if the device response the “Basic Report” to the dongle,
that report will be show up in the “Report Form”.
There are 4 parts in the
“Report Form”.
1. History Report:
It is a drop down list box, It will display a list to record the report
commands, those were received by the dongle. And you can click
the old report in the list; it will show the content of that report.
2. Report Name and Time:
This part will display the report is belong to which Z Wave
command class. And the time of receive the report. You can see
there are two time in this part, the second time it the time of now,
the last number is the discrepancy seconds of these two times.
3. Content:
The content of the report.
4. Operation Buttons:
You can save, reload or clear the history report. And also can
close the “Report Form”.
Note: When you load the report from the saved file, that history report
will display in a new “Report Form” window.
. Z-Wave Command Function
You can send out the Z Wave command by this function.
There are
5 parts in
this page:
1. Device List:
Display the node of the controller.
2. Basic Control:
Quick to send out the basic set command, On or Off.
3. Support Commands:
List the supported commands of the device that you selected in
the device list.
4. Special Commands:
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Figure 10 Report Form

Some commands always can send, no mater the device is
supported or not.
5. Control Panel:
Setting the arguments of the command, and send it out.
.1. How to Send Command
First select the device that you want to send the command to it.
Note: The NID: 255 is for broadcast.
Select the command that you want to send.
Figure 13 Select the command
Before you send out the command, you must make sure the Z Wave
device is in sleep mode or not. If the device is sleeping, it won’t
receive any command. Usually you can press some button to wake up
the device.
At the top of control panel, there are two options. First one is “Send
Instantly”, if the device is awake, you can check this option, after you
click the send button, the command will send to the device instantly,
otherwise, please don't check it. And after you click the send button,
the application will put the command into the queue, wait the device
to wake up, or got the node information from that device. When it
happen, the application will send out the command, those in the
queue.
Another option is “Enable Route”, if this option be checked, the
command will be sending by the route table path. That means the
command maybe send to other node first, and pass to more than one
node, at the end to the destination node. Otherwise, the command will
send directly to the destination node.
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Figure 1 Select the device
Figure 11 Function page

Figure 14 Check the options
Select the command type that you want to send, and fill the
arguments. Each command has define different arguments, Please
refer to the Z Wave SDK to get more detail specification.
Some command type there is a number in the head that means the
version of that command type. 2 means version 2.
At the end, click the send button to send out the command. Some
command types will response the report. So the “Report Form” will
pop up. please refer to the “8 Report Form”.
6. Consistent Test
This page is for test the RF command is send to the device correctly.
Figure 16 Consistent Test Page
You can do some settings by press the “settings” button.
Figure 17 Consistent Setting
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Figure 15 Select the command type