GE Smart Switch not throwing double tap scene event

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I cant find anything that looks like your file. Can you give the location of the files you edited to get the GE switch to initiate a doubletap event?

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Iā€™m sorry Iā€™ve not been using OH for over a year now so honestly I couldnā€™t remember or begin to point you where this may be. Sorry. Just got this notification via email and didnā€™t want to leave you hanging.

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I have been following along somewhat on the ongoing ZWave add-on development and it may be (not confirmed) that manually updating the database as I did may not be supported in future versions so I havenā€™t updated to Openhab versions more recent than last December. This may mean that the steps I followed wonā€™t work for you.

I am attempting to attach the XML for the 14291 and 14294. If you are able to manually update the add on and add it to your installation, they will enable the double tap.

Ultimately I need to get write access to the ZWave Database but I have not been successful in getting that access yet. I suppose I will have to try again.

14294_0_0.xml (8.2 KB) ge14291_0_0.xml (4.0 KB)

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Thanks for posting those. My XML files under /var/lib/openhab2/zwave/ look very different than your files do so I am not sure I am looking at the correct file location or maybe openhab has gone through some major updates. I am uploading my .XML file here so you can compare.

network_d52dfa95__node_6.xml (13.9 KB)

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You need to:

  1. manually install the zwave binding. (This script should do the work but I havenā€™t personally tried it https://github.com/openhab-5iver/openHAB-utils/releases )
  2. Stop openhab
  3. update the jar file with the new XML files (I used these instructions as a base. Modify a zwave binding jar to add/change a zwave device while waiting for a build )
  4. Start openhab

@chris Any chance I can get zwave database write access? WRXIzumi on the database site.

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Thanks!

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@WRXIzumi ā€“ were you able to get access? If not, I do have access and could maybe help out hereā€¦ thing is, Iā€™m not too terribly familiar with what exactly would need to be doneā€¦

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Unfortunately, no, I havenā€™t managed to get access. I also am not fully familiar with the format that the database itself requires but I figure it must follow some of the format of the XML files themselves since they are generated from the database.

The up side is that in my installation the double tap has been 100% reliable.

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Any updates here? I think this may be something I need to tackle. Unfortunately I have a lot of these:

GE 14291 (ZW4005) In-Wall Paddle Switch

And they donā€™t trigger a scene number update when I double press. My newer Honeywell switch

39348 In-Wall Smart Switch

triggers properly every time for me.

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I have finally upgraded to 3.x and find that the double tap feature in these two devices has not yet made it into the database. I have registered with the new site @chris has created and opened a ticket to request update access. Fingers crossed.

I have found that I can still manually update the XML in the add-on and get my switches up and running. My wife has come to rely on the double tap to turn on different accessory lights so this was a high priority for the upgrade.

I have had 100% reliability in the double tap feature on these devices. There have been zero unintended side-effects from the changes I made. I have also dug much deeper into the Z-Wave protocol to better understand how it fits together to try and see if there was any better way to implement these in openhab. I couldnā€™t find one due to the limitations of this hardware.

I am uploading the versions of the XML from OpenHab 3.

14291_0_0.xml (4.4 KB) 14294_0_0.xml (8.4 KB)

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I cant find any ticket - Iā€™m not sure when you created this, but there have been no tickets in the system in the past 48 hours.

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That would be because my session timed out before I clicked ā€œSaveā€ and stopped responding. In my subsequent attempts to save, it seems that I spammed you with tickets, my apologies!

Hopefully only one ticket remains open.

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Thanks - thatā€™s done :slight_smile:

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Thanks much Chris, I have updated the two devices and submitted them for review. The only thing I couldnā€™t figure out is how to add additional supported command classes. The 14294 supports scene activation and scene actuator configuration command classes but are not listed in the database.

It doesnā€™t make much difference to me since I donā€™t use that functionality since I use OpenHab directly to manage scenes I just like to make things as ā€œcorrectā€ as I can. This, of course, is both a positive and negative in my life. :slight_smile: