RazBerry (AddOn) vs AEOTEC (USB)

[Draakje]

Dear all,

I am about to start off with z-Wave.

Currently my setup consists of 2 raspberry pi 3 ( 1 master and 1 slave)
The slave has a kWh meter (solar) and OTGW. Both on the USB. And the SMA is connected via BlueTooth.

On the master I have the P1 meter via USB and a 433 transmitter/receiver on the GPIO port.

In my search for z-wave controllers I got the 2 mentioned in the subject. The RazBerry is an Addon on the GPIO and the AEOTEC via USB

So the question:
In your opinion, what is the best (better) choice? Pricing is nearly the same.
Maybe someone is willing to share his/her experience ?

Goal is to have as many z-wave devices controlled and monitored. First off I want to read out the consumption .

Thanks in advance!

[tlpeter]

I have the Aeonlabs and very pleased with it so why not use it?
If you decide in the future to go to a Windows machine then you can take it with you.
If suddenly the RPI dies on you then you can put it in a computer for the time being.

[Draakje]

I have the Aeonlabs and very pleased with it so why not use it?
If you decide in the future to go to a Windows machine then you can take it with you.
If suddenly the RPI dies on you then you can put it in a computer for the time being.

Many thanks for your reply.
Although changes for me running Windows is very like to be null..
But I get what you are saying! Good point!

[sach]

Maybe not even Windows but a more robust platform than the Pi. I went from pi2 to pi3 to Nuc running vmware and Ubuntu. Snapshot ability came in handy the other week when updated to a Beta and ran into issues.

[Draakje]

Maybe not even Windows but a more robust platform than the Pi. I went from pi2 to pi3 to Nuc running vmware and Ubuntu. Snapshot ability came in handy the other week when updated to a Beta and ran into issues.

Haven't had much problem with ubuntu on the raspberry.