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I'm after a bit of advice. I have a Comfort system with CBus integration. Recently I have managed to connect the Comfort to SmartThings in such a way that my CBus lights are represented with Virtual ZWave Nodes. This allows SmartThings and hence Alexa and Siri via Homebridge to control my CBus lighting.
To achieve this I have a response on each ZWave virtual node that sends CBus commands based on the dimmer value supplied by Smartthings - using nested if then else statements I have achieved 4 brightness levels.
Problems to solve:
1. A better way to integate the counter values to get more control of the dimming level.
2. A way to get feedback from the CBus level to Smartthings via ZWave.
I have an original CBus UCS and I believe a 2-way ZWave UCM. As I understand it the newer CBus UCM allows commands to be sent to CBus by just changing the counter value, so I guess I could copy the counter value received from the ZWave UCM to the CBus counter so set the dimmer directly? I also believe I could map the same counter to both so this happens automatically. Is this correct?
The ZWave virtual nodes do not seem to report the counter value back to the ZWave network. Changing the counters in Comfigurator or via a response does not seem to be reflected by Smartthings. Is this because I haven't associated the virtual notes with real ZWave devices? I can't seem to see any mention of associating devices in Smartthings.
Perhaps I need a newer ZWave UCM or firmware? My ZWave UCM reports Version 7.103 with ZWave Module 3.34.
Many thanks in advance.
Chris Williams
Worcester
England
Last edited on Monday Feb 4th, 2019 12:59 pm by Treworgey
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