Are others of you having any luck creating/adding devices to OH2.2 with either the SNAPSHOT builds pre-2.2 or the released 2.2 binding? (As opposed to people who had an existing network before that)…
I literally can’t get anything to work. The one and only device I’ve managed to get working 100% is a basic plug-in power module. Other devices never add fully, or seem to add fully and only partially work or don’t work at all. I’ve been unable to get a single secure device to add.
It seems unrelated to the Z-wave adapter. I have a Razberry and a Homeseer USB dongle running on my Homeseer system. If I shut down homeseer and move the stick to OH, all of my existing non-secure devices seem to work fine (at least within the bounds of what I tested at the time). I can’t replicate the encryption key from Homeseer, so I have to remove/re-add secure devices. Those never fully joined. OH would “see” them, but they wouldn’t initialize fully and wouldn’t respond to any messages, with security-related errors.
Switching to the Razberry, I can get some devices (non-secure) to add (although it often takes a half dozen exclusions/inclusions to work), but not a single one except that GE ZW4201 will generate events. Statuses never update, even from hardwired devices. (Across other plug-in dimmer and appliance modules, and GE, Cooper and Linear switches) Sensors add correctly, but the created items never get updates. I can see logging when adding/removing devices, but nothing at all gets logged with the zwave binding in DEBUG (into events.log or the OH logs) for status changes. Same with turning on or off the GE module – I get a dozen or so log lines every time, nothing else (even if they look added) generates anything.
WIth Z-Way instead of the OH binding, everything “works”. Secure devices add, devices report statuses to Z-Way, so its not the physical environment or the Razberry. I can even interact with them in OH using the Z-Way plugin, although it seems to have a very limited sense of what channels ought to exist for a given devices, so I can’t really use it for “production” (like battery levels aren’t reported for anything).
For a slew of reasons I’m trying to get off Homeseer, and the Z-wave devices are the only thing I can’t get working even remotely. I’m wondering if others have had recent success or if anyone has seen these sort of pervasive problems and have had an “ah ha, the docs don’t say it but you need to _____” sort of moment with it.
Worst case, I’ll just eventually write a Homeseer binding and keep everything on there, but I’ve got a couple other ones I want to write as a higher priority, so I’d really like to figure out why this isn’t working. Or even ideas for troubleshooting.