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    Z-wave on/off switches with direct association or scenes (to simulate 3-way switch)?

    in Z-Wave - Series 300/500

    Posted · Edited by Athlon
    Clarity

    28 minutes ago, peterathans said:

    Short answer is that there is currently no Polisy support to set up two z-wave switches so they communicate directly and act as a 3-way switch circuit

    As I said earlier, I am. I'm using a program to do so.

    On: 

    Foyer Light On - [ID 0031][Parent 0001]

If
        'Foyer Aux' is switched On
     Or 'Foyer Light' Status is not Off
 
Then
        Set 'Foyer Light' Fast On
 
Else
   - No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

    That being said, the OP asked if it can be done without having to use an ISY.

    EDIT: 'Foyer Light' in the 'Then' statement is a Scene with the two devices in the 'If' statement in it.

    SMTP Settings "Default Settings"

    in ISY994

    Posted

    I've been using text messages for two things - Roomba battery is at 100% and ready to go again, and a garage door has been open for 30 minutes. Both stopped working days ago (ATT).

    This morning I set up notifications in HA for both events and after testing it's working great.

    I think the difference is it's not really a text, it's a pushed message to whatever mobile device (phone or tablet) has an HA instance on it and properly logged in with notifications on.

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    SMTP Settings "Default Settings"

    in ISY994

    Posted · Edited by Athlon

    Now this is funny...

    There's a link in that forum thread @Geddyposted to. (I'll keep an eye on that, by the way - but not holding my breath - it's ATT after all.)

    When you click on the link the web page it takes you to doesn't work. ? (And yes, I'm signed in.)

    >>>

    That link in the thread:

    We also recommend that you use our Troubleshooting and Resolve tool. Just click the tool that best describes your issue.

    Adjusting Ramp Rate on ZEN77

    in Z-Wave - Series 700

    Posted

    34 minutes ago, Bumbershoot said:

    I'm not running HA, so I'm going to wait for the upcoming Z-Wave/Matter board from UDI before I even think about jumping through those hoops...  Then, hopefully, we'll be able to update the firmware from our Polisy.

     

    4 minutes ago, Dub aka WHaas said:

    One trick that I learned on Virtual Box and I think helped @Athlon yesterday was once the  Z-Wave USB Stick is exposed to the VM, it still needs to be configured in HA.  I had to when I first configured HA, remove the Z-Wave USB Stick to create an error in the logs to expose the path HA needed to use the Z-Wave.  Yesterday when I tested this it was the Supervisor Logs(HA has lots of log options). Thats probably the biggest hangup I had when doing Virtual Box, but it should work pretty well and hopefully that can save you some headache.  

    I didn't have to expose my USB port and dongle to HA after all. HA found it automatically after I added Z-Wave correctly. YMMV using a VM, however.

    In HA, when I added Z-Wave as an Add-On first, then as an Integration (in that order), everything happened automatically. (I was doing it the other way around when I was having trouble.)

    This is also interesting...

    The parameters available to HA do not, it seems, rely on the firmware in the device, but instead they are loaded from a database of every Z-Wave device available on the planet. So, until someone updates that database, the new ZEN77 firmware (10.20)'s parameters will not show up in HA.

    That's the great thing about IoP in that regard - it uses a drop down box to change the parameters. Because all parameter numbers are always listed (available or not) in the drop-down, you can set them right away after upgrading. If you happen to choose a parameter that's not available for your device,  IoP simply returns a 255.

    So, although we can't update the firmware in IoP - we can use the new parameters while HA cannot!

    Here's the link to that HA database:

    https://devices.zwave-js.io/?jumpTo=0x027a:0x7000:0xa007:0.0

    You'll see that the parameters for the ZEN77 have not been updated for use in HA yet, even if you update the firmware.

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    Adjusting Ramp Rate on ZEN77

    in Z-Wave - Series 700

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, oskrypuch said:

    Don't use HA, and don't have a Pi.

    But, could install HA into a VM. Wonder if that would allow for the updates.

    * Orest

    My guess is yes. As long as you have HA running it should work. Let me know if you get stuck after you get HA running in a VM.

    SMTP Settings "Default Settings"

    in ISY994

    Posted

    Started testing this...

    I've been using smtp.gmail.com, not the 'Default'. 

    Some of my tests (by clicking the 'Test' button got through just now, but one (third try of four) generated this in my email:

    Address not found

    Your message wasn't delivered to 508*******@txt.att.net because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail.

    The response from the remote server was:

    550 5.2.0 <*********@gmail.com> - Is51orBZZfuqjIs52oNfl3 - Internal error

    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: Dave <*********@gmail.com>
    To: 508*******@txt.att.net
    Cc: 
    Bcc: 
    Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 09:37:02 -0400
    Subject: Polisy Notification Test!
    Tue, 02 Aug 2022 09:37:01 -0400 Test message from Polisy

     

    >>>>>

    -> I redacted the phone number and email address (they were in the email).

    Adjusting Ramp Rate on ZEN77

    in Z-Wave - Series 700

    Posted · Edited by Athlon

    With a lot of help from @Dub aka WHaasI finally got my ZEN77's firmware updated.

    I dumped the Simplicity Studio software - what a nightmare to use. I followed Zooz's step by step instructions three times - no joy at all.

    Then I pulled the dongle out from my Polisy and stuck it into my RPi.

    HA makes it super easy to update the firmware. Simply add Z-Wave as an Add-On, then add Z-Wave as an Integration, go to your Z-Wave devices panel (HA sees them instantly) and update their firmware from there.

    Then I put the dongle back into my Polisy and restarted it. From ISY I can now program the new parameters 28 and 29, ramp up and ramp down. And the new rates work regardless of how I turn the lights on or off.

    Easy Peasy ?

    Adjusting Ramp Rate on ZEN77

    in Z-Wave - Series 700

    Posted

    I giving up on the firmware update for now (a bit frustrated). The software 'sees' the dongle and three switches, but will not update the switches.

    It gets stuck on the first bite. I even tried to exclude one of the switches first to see if that was it - didn't help.

    I also plugged the dongle into my RPi to see if I could use HA's Z-Wave integration to do the update (seems like it would be easier to do it there, by the way), but my HA setup did not see the dongle. If anyone know how to get it going there, please let me know.

    The good news is I didn't brick anything, and simply plugging the dongle back into my Polisy brought the switches back to the way I had them after rebooting.

    Adjusting Ramp Rate on ZEN77

    in Z-Wave - Series 700

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, Dub aka WHaas said:

    Something wasn’t really clear to me about the additional modules(my words) that Simplicity Studio needed

    I installed the Gecko one and the two Z-Wave ones.

    About 1 minute ago I finally received an email from Zooz allowing me to download the file. I should be able to attempt the upgrade soon... 

    Adjusting Ramp Rate on ZEN77

    in Z-Wave - Series 700

    Posted

    Just now, oskrypuch said:

    So, it looks like this issue has been addressed by zooz, with the addition of three more settings. Same configs are present now in Zen72 as well.

    Of course doing a firmware update involves a lot of fiddly legwork at the moment. I'll just continue using ZWave ON/OFF with an explicit value and ramp rate for now, in Polisy.

    * Orest

    You are correct about the fiddly legwork bit. ?

    I'm waiting for the file from Zooz - have to email them for it.

    As for installing that software - wow - talk about having to jump through hoops.

    I have the time to do this today, so I'll report back here either way when I have some results.

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    Adjusting Ramp Rate on ZEN77

    in Z-Wave - Series 700

    Posted · Edited by Athlon

    ?

    I may have found something for my ZEN77s! See the ZEN77 firmware update notes here for release 10.20. It was released in July 2022 as an OTA release.

    https://thesmartesthouse.happyfox.com/kb/article/850-zen77-700-series-s2-dimmer-change-log/

    The notes include the following:

    "Separated ramp rate settings into 4 new parameters: ramp rate ON physical (9), ramp rate OFF physical (27), ramp rate ON Z-Wave (28), ramp rate OFF Z-Wave (29)."

    Instructions on how to do an OTA update are linked at the bottom of that page. I'm gonna give that a go sometime today.

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