My ZCOMBO seems to be working fine right out of the box on openHAB 2 with Chris’s most recent test snapshot Z-Wave binding from Feb 28 2017 (found here).
I looked at the included instructions and did a normal inclusion procedure. Instructions said to put the battery tray out, hold button and push tray in. First thing I did was this and it included immediately. Then, as expected with Z-Wave battery devices, I needed to wake it once to get it to communicate the needed info for openHAB to identify it and set up it channels. I see three channels:
- Heartbeat (alarm_general)
- Smoke (alarm_smoke)
- Battery Level (battery-level)
Does anyone know what the Heartbeat channel is? Is it what it sounds like, it goes off periodically to let you know that the device is still alive?
I plan to check my logs and events after a day with this on my network to see what it’s doing and decide how to set up the logic on it.
Shame that Z-Wave device manufacturers’ documentation is so poor.