Months ago I installed openHab2 (2.0.0) on a RPi. I wanted to test out openHab and enjoy this great system. To get in touch I buyed a FGS-213 to setup a doorlight. Everything worked perfect. Also astro and homekit is working well.
These days i wanted get more things smart. I buyed four FGS-213 and one FGK-10x (Doorsensor) to get my hole outdoor lighting smart. To setup the FGK-10x as simple as possible I switched from OH2-RELEASE to OH2-SNAPSHOT. And now the wired problem. The new FGS-213 version 3.2 (same as the first one) is working as well if I use OH (also all the services and UIâs) but if i use the the physical switch OH does nothing. The relay swap the lamp lights up and nothing around OH get the changes - also the event log has no information about the physical touch. I donât know whats wrong. The first one is working well.
I can send you the items file⌠but I double checked⌠and its so simple⌠I used PaperUI for the pairing (exact the same way like the first one months ago).
a) HABmin -> Configuration -> Things -> (FGS-213 a/b/c/d) -> Configuration Parameters
and check the first (a) working settings against the other 3 (b,c,d). Especially, parameter 20.
b) PaperUI->Configuration->Things-> (FGS-213 a/b/c/d) -> Channels
and check the links and the items
If you used simple linking mode from PaperUI, you will not have anything in your *.items files. Everything will be configured via PaperUI (which is fine)
use the {channel="<channel_name>"} method
get the <channel_name> from PaperUI for the thing (there is a copy icon next to the channel name also for convenience)
You will have more control like this (instead of linking the items manually via PaperUI).
Small tip: For your Groups, use âgâ in front of the name. It will help you later on to identify faster the Groups and not to confuse them with other Items
Example:
Group gLicht
Group gGarten
Group gLeistung
Group gGarage
```
Of course, update each line item with the correct Group names after that :blush:
a) I âre-engineeredâ my items file thx for your tip!
b) I restarted OH2
c) I searched this Lifeline parameter into my zwave-Controller on PaperUI and i canât find it
d) I installed HABmin and found the Lifeline parameter into the things and yes âopenHAB Controllerâ is active
til here no changes itâs still not working - just the first switch
f) I dropped my zwave-controller from the things, I uninstalled the zwave-binding, I installed both again
g) I setup my things again (adress from the controller has changed)
just a note: the old things still there i tryed to remove them on PaperUI but they stay on âremovingâ all timeâŚ
And the problem is still there⌠no chance ⌠only the first FGS is working wellâŚ
The new item file:
Group gLicht
Group gGarten
Group gLeistung
Group gGarage
Switch TuerLicht_Switch "EingangstĂźr" <light> (gLicht, gGarten) [ "Lighting" ] {channel="zwave:device:32c5b200:node2:switch_binary"}
Number TuerLicht_Power "Leistung [%.0f Watt]" <energy> (gLeistung) {channel="zwave:device:32c5b200:node2:meter_watts"}
Switch KuecheTuerLicht_Switch "KĂźche" <light> (gLicht, gGarten) [ "Lighting" ] {channel="zwave:device:32c5b200:node4:switch_binary"}
Number KuecheTuerLicht_Power "Leistung [%.0f Watt]" <energy> (gLeistung) {channel="zwave:device:32c5b200:node4:meter_watts"}
Switch TerrasseLicht_Switch "Terrasse" <light> (gLicht, gGarten) [ "Lighting" ] {channel="zwave:device:32c5b200:node5:switch_binary"}
Number TerrasseLicht_Power "Leistung [%.0f Watt]" <energy> (gLeistung) {channel="zwave:device:32c5b200:node5:meter_watts"}
Number GarageRotSensor_Battery "Garage Rot [%.0f %%]" <battery> (gGarage) {channel="zwave:device:32c5b200:node3:battery-level"}
Oh one more note:
I was wondering that the doorsensor has routing active? Isnât that bad for the battery-life? Is this maybe a problem? I was also wondering that HABmin network-viewer is drawing a bit unhappy. Or this is rly a problem!?
Ah next side-note --> I could drop the old things in HABmin - it seems there is a small bug in PaperUI.
Have a look at the network-view - node 3 is of course the battery driven doorsensor:
Ok itâs hard for me to understand the problem but i solved the problem and i exacly know how.
So I tell you the solution hope somebody who has the same trouble read this:
The fist FGS I buyed months ago uses the items âswitch_binaryâ and âmeter_wattsâ. That works well! The new ones need switch_binary1 and meter_watts1 then they work perfectly!
A small side note: If I use switch_binary1 and meter_watts1 on the first FGS it wonât work.
Ummm - no, according to the database link you added, the device has 2 switches, and two endpoints, and this is therefore fine.
I expect that the second switch is used as a controller - ie thereâs no physical relay to switch a load, but you can add a button and use this button to trigger loads other on other devices.
Yes Chris is right. But where does the difference come from? Is Fibaro updating their firmware without changeing the version? I read a little about this âcommon class attribute basicâ and it seems this is not for all switches active and more it is on different switches active!?
This isnât a simple issue and there are a few things that can feed in to this so I canât easily say if this has changed or not. Maybe the binding changed - certainly itâs different from OH1 in that we now use the multi-channel association, and this will definately impact this.
Hi @ all. Could anybody tell me where I must change the configuration to switch_binary1 ? I have the same issue, OH2.2.0 on Raspberry Pi2 with FGS-213. I have 6 nodes and a z-wave Stick. But I have no Items or things file, because I configured all with HABmin- and I learned (iâm a openhab noob) that in this case - all is stored in the 4 jasondb files⌠(right?)
Thanks to all
Edit: I forget to say, that im using the new z-wave binding from @chris because I have three Fibaro Door/Window sensors 2 (works great) - thank you very much for this!!
Open your device thing in HABmin, go to the Channels section, delete your current items linked to the switch_binary channel, click the plus sign for the switch channel (that may not be the first one in the list!), find that one which gives you a switch_binary1 at the end of the items name.
Thank you very much for this. It works like a charm
I used always the first âswitchâ channel - i don´t recognized the difference to the others.
And the most of the time I read here, the most talk about config files (*.items / *.thingsâŚ) and I don´t know how to deal with that. sorry-for-the-bad-english
my items file thx for your tip!
