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- juwi_uk - 06-29-2015
I certainly don\'t want half baked having spent most of today fighting with this setup so happy to wait for the revised Comfigurator and instructions at that time.
Thanks
Julian
- juwi_uk - 07-01-2015
Guys
Checkout 7.072 UCM and ZWave beta firmware that Chiu has just posted on the Cytech website.
Fixes the issues I was having:
1. I can now turn the light on in CC purely by setting the counter value and the return status back from Comfort confirms the counter change so the light image changes.
2. I can turn the light on/off via the physical switch and it sends the status correctly to CC so that it sets the correct image.
3. I can turn the light on/off from my primary controller (Fibaro Home Center 2) and it sends the status correctly to CC so that it sets the correct image.
4. I can turn the light on/off from my secondary remote controller (Remotec ZRC-100) and it sends the status correctly to CC so that it sets the correct image.
- xAPPO - 07-02-2015
I am just about to return a Z-Wave UCM bought a couple of weeks back as it doesn\'t do what I had expected.
I would like to create devices in my Fibaro HC2 (Master) Z-Wave controller that reflect/update in realtime the status of my Comfort zone inputs, and alarm state (set/unset) etc. I am prepared to do some programming in Comfort via counters if needed.
Is this something the new firmware will now allow or is it something that is never going to be possible ? It seems to be a fundamentally useful, and expected, capability.
- slychiu - 07-02-2015
The new firmware will allow Comfort to get the update of zwave status via the control menu feedback mechanism
If you want Comfort to update its internal states ie armed/disarmed and inputs to Zwave, then you already can do that by using counters and flags and mapping them to Zwave nodes.
- xAPPO - 07-02-2015
Don\'t I have to have some physical Z-Wave endpoint device to map each to though ? I just wanted say 32 PIR zones to show up as 32 virtual devices in my Fibaro HC2 Master Z-Wave controller so I could trigger HA actions there when they change state (in realtime). I don\'t want to buy 32 Z-Wave devices to map them too.
At the moment although the master controller will discover and create the 32 virtual nodes (via flags / counters) it does not update the status as they change in Comfort. Or am I misunderstanding this ?
- slychiu - 07-02-2015
The controller needs to poll the comfort virtual nodes to get the status
In zwave the devices do not automatically send their status when there is a change- this is a limitation with zwave
The devices need to be polled
If the fibaro sensors are able to automatically send their status to the fibs to controller, then that is something that fibaro have done that is only possible with a network of fibaro products and not available to all zwave products
The new ucm zwave firmware is now able to quickly obtain the status of zwave devices by polling when required when using the control menu and when logged in, but fibaro controllers may not
- juwi_uk - 07-02-2015
I think HC2 does by association as each device has Group 3 set 1 which is HC2.
- xAPPO - 07-02-2015
Polling from Fibaro doesn\'t work... I am not sure if that\'s because it is not implemented , just broken, or perhaps I have it configured wrong. Fibaro HC2 (V4 Beta) firmware is in a fragile state currently and not being maintained in a timely manner.
Has anyone else with a Fibaro HC2 got this polling working or know if it\'s something that hopefully will work eventually, when the firmware improves ?
Also if anyone has an alternative primary Z-Wave controller that is working in this regard with the Z-Wave v3 UCM please post. I had no luck for example with MiCasaVerde Vera either.
- xAPPO - 07-02-2015
[user=1]slychiu[/user] wrote:
Quote:The controller needs to poll the comfort virtual nodes to get the statusSorry - really new to Z-Wave So how does a Z-Wave PIR from various manufacturers send it\'s status to the master controller to say it\'s tripped ? It isn\'t polled. What I expected was a Comfort virtual device that represented a zone to masquerade as such a sensor and update it\'s status in the master controller. Is this an aspect of the secondary/primary controller communication ?
In zwave the devices do not automatically send their status when there is a change- this is a limitation with zwave
The devices need to be polled
What I had hoped was that the Comfort UCM could act as a Z-Wave device that associated with the primary controller and had say 250+ endpoints it reported back the status of in realtime. eg counter values or flags. Akin to a multifunction Z-Wave sensor with 150 different values it reported back as they changed.
Time for me to read up some more I guess as this is obviously a naive understanding.
I don\'t understand the significance of the \'association\' post you made Julian either so I\'ll try and read up on that too.
- juwi_uk - 07-02-2015
Did you see what ewenjc did in this thread using a Fibaro dimmer as a gateway/edge device?
http://www.comfortforums.com/view_topic.php?id=4048&forum_id=62&jump_to=18849#p18849
Julian