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Hi guys,

This might be a very silly question but I am stuck adding my first zwave device to the network.

I have been using the openhab with xbmc and nest binding for a few months now, everything is working fine.

Today i have replaced my old rgbw controlled with the fibaro FBRGBW controlled. I have installed the zwave binding and habmin. The trouble is no nodes are showing up in habmin.

I know i must be missing a step as all zwave devices would not just show up in the habmin.

I have read number article but cannot seem to understand that i am doing wrong.

please help guide me along.
thanks.

edit: i have been trying to include the device using the learning button. have reset the device a few times and have also pressed the include button to put the controlled in learning mode but nothing is showing up.

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What controller are you using ? what is your platform behind controller (eg R Pi, Win, OS X, Linux etc) ?

Depending on many other things (especially what kind of device you are trying to include) this might be simple.
(E.G., if your device is a battery-powered device, you might have a little dance with various button-pressing actions to wake things up at inclusion time)

3

i am using the razberry controller running on raspberry pi.

i am trying to include a fibaro rgbw device.

i have been trying to press the include button in habmin but nothing seems to happen.

4

update: the device is now showing up as a node but am unable to control it with my open hab. thoughts?

5

how have you described it in your items file ?

6

item definition:
Group gRGBW “RGBW Light”

Dimmer RGBWControllerAll “RGBW Light Control [%d %%]” (gRGBW) {zwave=“3”}
Color RGBW “RGBW Light Color Picker” (gRGBW)
Dimmer RGBWControllerR “RGBW Light Red [%d %%]” {zwave=“3:2”}
Dimmer RGBWControllerG “RGBW Light Green [%d %%]” {zwave=“3:3”}
Dimmer RGBWControllerB “RGBW Light Blue [%d %%]” {zwave=“3:4”}
Dimmer RGBWControllerW “RGBW Light White [%d %%]” {zwave=“3:5”}

Sitemap:

sitemap myhome label=“My Home” {
Frame label=“RGB”
{
Group item=gRGBW
}
}

rgb.rules:
import org.openhab.core.library.types.*

var HSBType hsbValue
var String redValue
var String blueValue
var String greenValue

rule “Set RGB Value”
when
Item RGBW changed
then
hsbValue = RGBW.state as HSBType
redValue = hsbValue.red.intValue.toString
greenValue = hsbValue.green.intValue.toString
blueValue = hsbValue.blue.intValue.toString

    sendCommand(RGBWControllerR,redValue)
    sendCommand(RGBWControllerG,greenValue)
    sendCommand(RGBWControllerB,blueValue)

end

p.s.: in habmin the packet status reads 0/345

edit 2: now the node is showing up dead.

7

sorry about all the posts.

So i am able to control the dimmer now. unfortunately the color wheel does not change the color of the light. thoughts? suggestions?

8

This is not implemented at the moment (it will be/is implemented in OH2).

Given the way you have configured the items, you should be able to define separate ‘dimmers’ for each color rather than use the color wheel, and I think this will work for the Fibaro device…

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Hi Chris,

First of all thanks for all your work with habmin. much appreciated.

Will this be fixed if i upgrade to habmin 2?

10

No - it will only be fixed in the OH2 ZWave binding which isn’t currently available (soon hopefully)…

Did the dimmers allow you to adjust the color?

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this does the job for now.

Group gRGBW “RGBW Light”

Dimmer RGBWControllerAll “RGBW Light Control [%d %%]” (gRGBW) {zwave=“2”}
Dimmer RGBWControllerR “RGBW Light Red [%d %%]” (gRGBW) {zwave=“2:2”}
Dimmer RGBWControllerG “RGBW Light Green [%d %%]” (gRGBW) {zwave=“2:3”}
Dimmer RGBWControllerB “RGBW Light Blue [%d %%]” (gRGBW) {zwave=“2:4”}
Dimmer RGBWControllerW “RGBW Light White [%d %%]” (gRGBW) {zwave=“2:5”}

12

is there way to make the lights turn off and on on its own to work as blinking lights?

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I don’t think the device itself provides this - you’d need to create a rule in OH, using a timer to do this.

14

Thanks. Will look into that.

15

Using a Lighting2 switch using a RFXCOM transceiver, I did the following:

 Switch DebugSwitch

 rule "blink light"
 when
         Item DebugSwitch changed from OFF to ON
 then
         var i = 1
         while ((i=i+1) < 5) {
                         sendCommand(SN1509020580,ON)
                         sendCommand(SN1509020580,OFF)
         }
 end

Apparently the commands get queued and executed in series. For zwave switches it might behave differently, I don’t know. This might slightly delay any other things you do with the RFXcom like switching off the alarm. I also think not all lamps like to be switched on and off like this.

You could add a 1 second pause after each command just to be sure:

    Thread::sleep(1000)

If you want the lamp to return to its previous state, you will have to remember the state before the blinking:

Switch DebugSwitch
Switch RememberState

rule "blink light"
when
        Item DebugSwitch changed from OFF to ON
then
        sendCommand(RememberState,SN1509020580.state)                                          
        var i = 1
        while ((i=i+1) < 5) {
                sendCommand(SN1509020580,ON)
                Thread::sleep(1000)
                sendCommand(SN1509020580,OFF)
                Thread::sleep(1000)
        }
        sendCommand(SN1509020580,RememberState.state
)
end
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Hello,
I know it’s a rather old thread but I found this rule because I need exacly this for my alarm system.
The rule runs without these both rows:

    sendCommand(RememberState,SN1509020580.state) 
    sendCommand(SN1509020580,RememberState.state)

which gives a mistake in the OpenHAB Designer. Is it a wrong order?

Of course, I have changed the SN1509020580 with my blinking light (lampe_garten)

By the way, is there a possibility to cancel the loop if the DebugSwitch changed from ON to OFF

It would be great if someone could help me.