Mimolite && doorbells

[nasa01]

Hi,


I have a z-wave MIMOLITE device that I am attempting to have detect doorbell presses.  The mimolite is wired in parallel with the doorbell.  I have the
device included in my network and it created the following devices:
 

Binary Sensor (it toggles on & off with no input from me)

Binary Switch (it does the toggling thing too)

Power Management (shows 2053)

Multilevel Sensor (mostly shows 0.00, but sometimes switches to a 4-digit value like 4800.00)

Pulse Meter (REALLY large number)

 

Now, I would be set if the Binary Sensor just stayed one value - but that's not the case.  Does anyone know much more about the mimolite device and how to set it up?

 

Thanks,

[Mike Ippolito]

I just started to look at this product tonight for an integration partner, this document should help you decipher the return values.

 

http://www.fortrezz.com/index.php/component/jdownloads/finish/4/16?Itemid=0

[nasa01]

Thanks for the reply Mike,

 

If you were pointing to the Tech Appendix - I had looked at, especially the chart (ADC values vs Input Voltage).  If I have read it right, that corresponds to the multlevel Sensor, which has a range of 0-4095.  As noted earlier, it was showing 2053 most of the time -- with some times showing 0.00.  This is where I am having trouble making heads or tails out of it.

 

Anyways, keep me posted on how your testing goes.

[G W]

The door bell runs in AC and the sensor is looking for a change in a binary change which would be DC.

 

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[nasa01]

Garyfunk,

 

Thanks... Not sure how I missed that.  Now wondering how others were doing said project.

[G W]

I'm wondering if you can still get it to work. The voltage across the switch should drop to zero so you still may be able to trigger on that.

 

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[nasa01]

I got the following from support when I asked about AC...

 

"If you only have AC - open the MIMOlite box, add a 4 diode Bridge + a big capacitor on the output... than conect to + and - at the conector... and you do not need the power adapter, it is small and easy to build..."