topic Re: VMB4540 & VMB5000 ZWave Ready in Arlo Pro 4

VMB4540 & VMB5000 ZWave Ready

HopperPilot — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 02:36:30 GMT

In a post from 2020, an Arlo Community Manager said, "VMB4540 is ZWave, Zigbee, and ArloRF™ ready, the same as VMB5000," implying that both base stations support ZWave. Does anyone know what this means? What type of support is included? Can these base stations communicate with popular home automation hubs that support ZWave?

Re: VMB4540 & VMB5000 ZWave Ready

StephenB — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:10:23 GMT

@HopperPilot wrote:

In a post from 2020, an Arlo Community Manager said, "VMB4540 is ZWave, Zigbee, and ArloRF™ ready, the same as VMB5000," implying that both base stations support ZWave. Does anyone know what this means? What type of support is included? Can these base stations communicate with popular home automation hubs that support ZWave?

It just means that the hardware includes a zwave radio. But Arlo never did anything with it, so it can't communicate to home automation systems using zwave.

Re: VMB4540 & VMB5000 ZWave Ready

HopperPilot — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 13:03:07 GMT

Thanks for your response, @StephenB. So, basically, this means that the ZWave radio in these base stations is useless?

Re: VMB4540 & VMB5000 ZWave Ready

StephenB — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:10:58 GMT

@HopperPilot wrote:

So, basically, this means that the ZWave radio in these base stations is useless?

Correct.