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I just purchased the Wayne Dalton USB stick (WDUSB-10) and the SDK 1.3.  I ran the c# 2.0 samples just fine (they compiled fine), but when I attempted to connect to my zwave network, it could not recognize anything.  ThinkEssentials works just fine.  It finds the lamp modules just fine.  But when I attempt to use the SDK (C# 2.0), it's unable to connect to the network.  I'm using Windows Vista 64 bit, Visual Studio 2008, and I'm using the Wayne Dalton stick.  I search google to see if their were any known issues and I've checked the ControlThink forums without success.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  I tried using the SDK on two different computers (a desktop and laptop) without success, but ThinkEssentials works just fine on both computers.

 It appears the ControlThink Z-Wave PC SDK does not work on Dalton USB sticks (WDUSB-10).  Don't buy the SDK if you don't want to get a new usb stick.

Hi.

Try to find out, if your stick uses a serial port? Check in Devicemanager. If you can see your stick in Devicemanager/ Serial port then just Change the string in the sample "m_ZWaveController.Connect()" with this "m_ZWaveController.Connect("COMXX")" where XX means what you can find in devicemanager.

It realy helped to connect my Seluxit USB controller.

Paul

 Hi Paul.  I've tried setting the .Connect("COMxx") values and the SDK still is unable to detect the USB dongle.  I'm using the sample .NET code files that came with the SDK and it does not work.  I also checked out the Device Manager.  I'm using Vista and the Wayne Dalton USB stick shows up as a "USB Human Interface Device".  Anyone have any ideas how to get this to work?  Think Essentials is able to detect the USB stick, but not the Z-Wave SDK.  Frustrating... 

Update:  I've finally received the ControlThink usb stick in the mail, and it has the exact same problem as my Wayne Dalton usb stick.  The SDK is unable to find the usb stick.  ThinkEssentials works with both usb sticks under Windows Vista 64 bit.  My guess is that the SDK does not work under Vista 64 bit SP1 edition.  I'm going through the trouble of rebuilding another computer with Windows XP to see if the SDK can find the ControlThink usb stick.

Has anyone else experienced these issues?

Will continue to post updates.

 Ok, it's been a while since I've continued on this project.  Latest update:  Although the SDK could not detect the ControlThink USB stick under Windows Vista 64bit SP1, the SDK did detect the ControlThink USB stick under Windows XP SP3.  I was using Visual Studio 2008 for all work done on the SDK (including the examples that came with the SDK.  My conclusion is that the SDK does not work under Windows Vista 64bit edition (don't know about Windows Vista 32bit, but going to assume it probably does not work there either).  More updates to come.

I'm developing using the SDK and a ThinkStick on Vista 64-bit (SP2) without any problems.  I am using Visual Studio 2008.

Did the samples that came with the SDK work in Vista & Visual Studio 2008 for you?  I tried to run the samples the SDK came with (without modification... except to try different ports)  on two different computers, and neither could detect the USB Thinkstick.

Did you have to make any changes or modifications?  I swapped out the hard drive of the computer that had Vista Ultimate 64-bit with a Windows XP HD and ran the same code and it was able to detect the Thinkstick.  It just won't work under Vista.

I started developing the application I use for controlling my network on my old XP Pro box, but moved over to Vista 64 in February and everything built and ran without any issues.  I didn't do much with the samples when I started the project other than look at the code in a couple of cases to see how things were done.

You know, there was one Windows Update that I applied that has to do with USB that you might try applying - search for an optional update titled "HID Non-User Input Data Filter".  I applied that update to fix a screensaver issue, but I can't remember if I had even tried the ThinkStick and SDK on this system before I applied it.