First, offtopic: I should start by saying that I am (very) new to this, only have some hours messing with Raspberry, Linux, openHAB, all together… never messed with any of these individually or like this. Although this was not hard for me, so far, since I know some programing languages.
Near finishing the challenge of building my “home sweet home” (almost a year and half already, and still some 2 months to go), I always wanted to put hands on and make my own home automations, so this is it.
So, back to the topic! I was using openHAB v2.4.0 Stable, but when I tried to add a Simon IO: Roller Blind, it “discovered something” but was basically naming it as a Node 001, status was “OFFLINE - COMMUNICATION_ERROR” and therefore it was “seen” as an Unknown Device.
After a lot more hours searching, I ended up upgrading to the current openHAB v2.5.0 Build #1627 SNAPSHOT. It now shows status ONLINE but that’s it… everything else is the same!
I’ve noticed the item IS actually on the list of Z-Wave items from @chris ( right about here ) and I’ve also noticed when I was in OH 2.4 it showed manufactureID and now it doesn’t:
I already have a Light Switch from this same brand (Simon IO Switch) working perfectly but this Roller Blind, although it’s on the list, I am not being able to make it work.
Thank you so much in advance guys, I’ve already seen that this community seems great and that’s what I love in a community like this.
Your device has a different device id than the one that is in the database. If it’s really exactly the same, then we can add it to the database. Can you confirm that it is exactly the same device as already in the database?
No - your device is not in the database, so it won’t work.
My question is if the device in the database that you referenced above is EXACTLY the same as the one you say you have? I can’t tell as the link is not in English, so you will need to check.
If it’s the same, then we can just add your devices type and id to the database. If it is not the same, then we need to generate a new database entry.
Database changes are merged into the zwave snapshot binding usually during the weekend, please watch the github repo, after you are seeing the changes there is a good chance to have them into the snapshot binding after the next successful build.
I was probably too fast upgrading it yesterday as soon as I saw it was updated on GitHub and at that time it wasn’t yet fully updated on openhab.
I’ve just upgraded and now it’s recognizing as it should.
Problem now is, my unit is blinking rapidly and on their documentation that means an “Error” and therefore the connection is not working properly, but I have no idea why this is happening!
Well, anyway, regarding OpenHab everything seems perfect now so I thank you guys very much for that.
I suppose it is everything ok regarding that because I could even connect this with Alexa and make it work, so I can only asume this is some problem with the product. Because even if I fully reset the device it still blinks with 0,1sec difference.
Anyway, so far so good with OpenHab, I’ve been able to setup everything and make it work with not that much effort.
So congratulations to everyone involved in this project.
