Patrick, first of all, a big thank you for your excellent work, which made me replace the zwave binding to z-way from the day you announced it. For me everything works fine since a very few releases after initial.
I follow this conversation with @Mihai_Badea (btw. thanks for your efforts, too) and just would like to know, who will announce, when and if your recent changes will come to effect for the snapshot releases of OH2?
Thanks for your nice words! I can’t say when the last changes come to effect for the snapshot releases of OH2. Currently there is a discussion whether the information of last update or last connection as channel is the right way. But I’ll publish news here.
Well, I’m still getting those and the like…
Does anybody have any clue as why and who is trying to update an old item?
Where should I look?
It is somehow connected to the zway binding because I’m getting these messages only for the zwave items that I renamed. Restarting openHAB and even the system does not help.
The designer of ZWay emailed me that the software was designed for us on the Z-Way.ME UZB or RaZberry, but that I could definitely try it on an AeonLab Gen 5 zwave stick.
I got an evaluation license and I want to install the ZWay library on a Ubuntu (16.04) 64 bit machine nad try using the AeonLab zwave stick. If this will not work I’ll get a UZB stick and repeat the test.
I’m following the instructions in here
In the section Prepare Z-Way Server I started z-way-server in the foreground.
In Openhab2 I found and added Z-Way Server 10.98.87.103 and filled in the fields according to the instructions in section Create and configure a Z-Way Bridge
Once I go to the Scan for Things and click on the scan button, I’m seeing
In PaperUI no thing comes up
In the z-way-server foreground I see the following message:
[2017-02-21 23:36:58.136] [D] [zway] ---------------------------
[2017-02-21 23:36:58.136] [D] [zway] Initialization done
[2017-02-21 23:36:58.136] [D] [zway] Job 0x07 (Get controller info and supported function classes): success
[2017-02-21 23:36:58.136] [C] [zway] Device is not compatible. Terminating...
[2017-02-21 23:36:58.136] [I] [zway] Removing job: Get controller info and supported function classes
[2017-02-21 23:36:58.142] [D] [zway] Worker thread exit point
[2017-02-21 23:36:58.142] [D] [zway] Worker thread successfully finished
[2017-02-21 23:36:58.153] [E] [zway] SaveData will not save data since it wasn't loaded. This is to prevent data loss.
[2017-02-21 23:36:58.157] [I] [core] Notification: critical (z-wave): Cannot start Z-Wave binding: Error: Bad data - communication failed
I’m not sure that I’m doing section Create and configure a Z-Way Bridge properly. My questions:
I received a license key for the ZWay library from z-wave.us. Where do I add it? (adding it in the ZWay binding in the password field did not help)
If not the ZWay license, which password should be set?
Does the failure message in the z-way-server foreground indicate that the AeonLab Gen 5 zwave stick is not supported, with the ZWay library? If yes, is the UZB stick expected to work?
I cannot answer this question as I am running a RazBerry Shield. AFAIK the license is included there so that I don’t have to do anything to add it manually. Perhaps you should ask the designer of ZWay, because that is a “problem” with ZWay itself.
Selecting your Zway-server thing and editing it you need to give you password of the Zway user. This mostly should be the admin user. So what user do you use to go to http://zwayserver-IP:8083/ ?
I cannot help you with the third question. But perhaps it goes away after fixing the other questions?
@pathec I’m trying to install the ZWay library on Ubuntu 16.04. I followed the instructions in here and I have some questions (the installation instructions here are for the RaZberry, not for Ubuntu):
Download Z-Way v2.2.3 or newer (further information about installing Z-Way you can find here)
I downloaded z-way-server-Ubuntu-v2.3.0.tgz into ~/Downloads and extracted it into the directory /home/avner/Downloads/z-way-server
When I try to start the server with service z-way-server restart, I get the error message Failed to restart z-way-server.service: Unit z-way-server.service not found.
I think that this is because the z-way-server is installed into a local directory. So instead, I’m executing it in the foreground
pushd /home/avner/Downloads/z-way-server
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/avner/Downloads/z-way-server/libs
set | grep LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/home/avner/Downloads/z-way-server/z-way-server
I’m following the description from the openHAB master branch. In it you point to here, which mentions
Download Z-Way v2.2.3 or newer (further information about installing Z-Way you can find here)
Can you elaborate on how to deploy the Z-Way v2.2.3 package?
If I download the file to e.g. ~/Downloads and extract it, the directory ~/Downloads/z-way-server is created.
How do you make it a service? (so that it can be started with service z-way-server restart)
I think you shouldn’t link a dimmer item to a channel with accepted item type number (Switch multilevel has accepted item type number). However, the UI does allow that, the binding can’t handle this, because the binding can only send state updates over the channel with a specific state type (decimal, dimmer, …). The problem is now that I have defined multilevel switches with accepted item type number and a item of type dimmer needs the state type percentage. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
A solution would be to set item type of switch multilevel channels to dimmer. But before I change that I would check that in detail.
I think I would like to have that to. Without doing further configurations using the Control-Tab in PaperUI I just can type in a number/int to set a dimmable value. I could write a rule to handle the interaction. Or am I overseeing something?