LighwaveRF dimming not quite right

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Hi wondering if someone can help.

I’ve got some lightwaverf dimmer switches which do work in openhab, however dimming right down (where I would expect it to turn the light off) sends the light to full brightness. I assume its sending dimm = 0 which isnt recognised by the hub or something.

Ive got round it by addinig a switch and dimmer statment for each light e.g.

Switch Light_GF_Lounge_Ceiling          "Lounge Ceiling"                (gGF, Lights)   { lightwaverf="room=3,device=2,type=SWITCH" }
Dimmer Light_GF_Lounge_Ceiling_D        "Lounge Ceiling [%d %%]"        (gGF, Lights)   { lightwaverf="room=3,device=2,type=DIMMER" }

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

thank you

2

Hi,

Do you have any logs from the lightwave binding?

3

I am seeing the exact same. It’s sending !R1D1P0 and light is going to full brightness

4

Hi,

Are you able to confirm what the lightwave app sends when you hit the off button in the app? I.e. can you see the lightwave command using wireshark or similar?

5

Not sure if its any help but that doesnt look like any of the commands I was using when testing with netcat, the first two are to turn the dimmer on / off, the others are dimming commands :-

echo -ne "226,!R2D1F1" | nc -u 9760
echo -ne "226,!R2D1F0" | nc -u 9760
echo -ne "226,!R2D1FdP1" | nc -u 9760
echo -ne "226,!R2D1FdP31" | nc -u 9760
echo -ne "226,!R2D1FdP1" | nc -u 9760
echo -ne "226,!R2D1FdP31" | nc -u 9760
6

Thanks I think I’ve found the problem and it is fixed in my repo here: https://github.com/foxy82/openhab/tree/lightwave_dim_fix

If you are happy to compile it yourself.

I’ve still not managed to fix the issue with the send/receive ports.

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Great work Neil, thanks.

I don’t have an environment setup to compile myself so happy to wait for the next release.

What are your thoughts on the send / receive port issue?

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thanks for sorting that, also don’t have an environment but I can wait.

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Send/Receive is still causing me issues - I can’t seem to get it to work. I’m also waiting for the EnergyMonitor pull request to be merged into the main repo before before moving on much more. As I’m not a git expert and keep getting myself in wormholes when doing multiple things at once!

10

I’ve created a release here to fix dimming:

Let me know how it works it does also include some work for fixing the send/receive so let me know any feedback on that as well.

11

Hey Neil,

Sadly that release does not work for me, I have no control over the dimmers not even to switch on / off, I also tried swapping the ports over in the openhab.cfg but still no control.

Anyone else had chance to try it?

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Yeah I’ve been trying it out too. My WiFi Link has stopped responding to openHAB again.

I’d decided I was going to do a complete reset on the WiFi Link as it seemed to have muddled up some of the devices. So I did that this afternoon and then reset each dimmer/switch and re-paired it with the Link via their brand new iPhone app. So that’s all working as it should now (I did have a few plug in switches that wouldn’t reset, so I’ve pulled them out).

The WiFi Link did ask to confirm a new registration, but now isn’t responding again. I’ve even tried the manual pairing technique, which hasn’t worked either:

> echo -ne '001,!F*p|' | nc -w1 -u 192.168.x.xx 9760

So now I’ve reverted to the 1.7.0 version of the binding, to see if I can get it back again.

Chris

13

Hi,

I’ve fixed the issue in the new release (sorry I don’t actually use the binding to send commands as I have an RFXCOM).

The fix along with lots of other changes are here documented here: LightwaveRF Binding Updated

Neil

14

just to say got 1.8.0 installed and the lightwave dimming is all working just a treat now thank you very much.

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I have followed the instructions for lightwaverf binding 1.12 with OH 2.2.0 appears to be registered and working from the logs, i am needing examples
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