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- Vangelis - 01-19-2015
So with that in mind, it is my understanding that when I create an Association within my HA (Indigo) setup (that contains the Comfort Virtual Node reference), I am basically \'telling\' my HA (Indigo) ZWave that Comfort exists as a \'Device\'
And from your last statement, I can have Comfort write the status of various hardwired sensors to this Virtual Node, and then have my HA (Indigo) poll this to check for flag changes.
So it\'s not pro-active in that when a PIR trips, Comfort can send out a ZWave signal, more that my HA (Indigo) setup has to poll the Virtual Device to \'check\' for activity?
Vangelis
- leonchue - 01-20-2015
[color=\"#0000ff\"]\"So with that in mind, it is my understanding that when I create an Association within my HA (Indigo) setup (that contains the Comfort Virtual Node reference), I am basically \'telling\' my HA (Indigo) ZWave that Comfort exists as a \'Device\'\"[/color]
I do not understand. If your HA is the primary controller, it knows a device\'s existence whenever a new node is included into the network.
[color=\"#0000ff\"] \"And from your last statement, I can have Comfort write the status of various hardwired sensors to this Virtual Node, and then have my HA (Indigo) poll this to check for flag changes.\"[/color]
Not necessarily to link various hardwired sensors to one Virtual Node. You can create 1 virtual node for each hardwired sensors. That way, you can see each individual status.
[color=\"#0000ff\"] \"So it\'s not pro-active in that when a PIR trips, Comfort can send out a ZWave signal, more that my HA (Indigo) setup has to poll the Virtual Device to \'check\' for activity?\"[/color]
Comfort can send Z-Wave commands.
In Z-Wave context, commands are \"straight-forward\". They are to control a node operations, eg. switch off or on. However, in this case, HA has no operation to be controlled, so there is no control command to send. That is why polling is usually implemented, the same way that Indigo has done.
Why not let Comfort to do the HA part instead, since most of the sensors are on Comfort side?