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Fibaro universal binary sensor - How?
Hi Guys,
Just added a Fibaro universal binary sensor to my Homey with 2 x temp sensors (DS18B20) but because that device is not listed in the fibaro app i had to add it as a basic Z-wave device.
Now it sits there as a basic z-wave device and i have no clue how to go from here How do I get to the point where i can se the temperatures from the two sensors? Right now i can change some parameters that i have no knowledge of how to set and the i can turn the device on/off which does not make sense but that probably because the device is not added correctly.
Please help
Regards
Jacob
Just added a Fibaro universal binary sensor to my Homey with 2 x temp sensors (DS18B20) but because that device is not listed in the fibaro app i had to add it as a basic Z-wave device.
Now it sits there as a basic z-wave device and i have no clue how to go from here How do I get to the point where i can se the temperatures from the two sensors? Right now i can change some parameters that i have no knowledge of how to set and the i can turn the device on/off which does not make sense but that probably because the device is not added correctly.
Please help
Regards
Jacob
Comments
There still has to be a driver written for this specific Fibaro device! For now it will only function as a basic z-wave device.
after that going to (try) write a driver for the universal binary sensor.
So hopefully this weekend.
or if other people are willing to write it ofcourse
And even the normal contacts I'm having some troubles.
I can get homey to recognize if the contact is closed or open, but only if I use Polling.
But at the moment the Polling uses way too much resources of the z-wave chip.
So there definitely needs something changed here.
So probably nothing will come regarding the universal sensor until @Emile is back from his vacation.
Sorry .
Really want to use the sensor myself as well for a project
Seems like the callback doesn't wait long enough and then times out the connection, and thus no callback available and no report.
Did you enable debug in the driver to see the communication which goes through the Athom Z-Wave driver?
First need both contacts to work, after that I can create a custom mobile card for 2 alarms and a max of 4 temperature measurements
It does work with Polling but 5 poll results are too many when you want (need) a short interval
And that's without inclusion of temperature measurements as well
http://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=9362
Maybe this helps??
They do how ever talk about an option I could look at (using the association groups).
But I would like to keep that option away since there is only a limited amount of id's that can be specified there. And adds more traffic towards homey as well.
So I'll see what I can do this weekend with association groups, otherwise it will be (only) a week of waiting
Any update on this?
/Jacob
i responded to this question few day ago.
But there is another small update on this matter, i can't add the temperature sensor's yet.
The "optional: true" tag doesn't work with the external temperature sensors yet.
I have not gotten any further with both inputs yet, still thinking of new (better) ways that has both good responce time but also not too much traffic
I have sensors (DS18B20) built in 2 sets of floors and I am trying to create a setup where those sensors report temperatures to Homey so that Homey can use a Fibaro double relay switch to control telestats to control the heating in the 2 rooms. I do also have fibaro motion sensors in those 2 rooms so i gues I could use those. I just figured the sensors in the flor would be more precise?
Regards
Jacob
Little sad that it isn't working as it supposed to.
Gonna look for alternatives then, this is gonna take a while if it is gonna happen at all.
Just checking in to see if there is an update to when i should be able to meassure 2 x temp sensors (DS18B20)on the fibaro binary sensor?
Any update on this?
Regards
Jacob
until then we can't do anything else, then just wait for the next homey update
the temperature sensor do not work yet because of a listening bug on multichannel (which the Sensors are)
Will be fixed next week.
But definitely needs an update to the app, like everyone new device being added
https://github.com/athombv/homey/issues/773
Do you know if this is related?
Because they started their investigation on it recently.
that is indeed related, they have found the issue and are going to fix it this week lets hope that's the last issue for the FGBS.
the universal binary sensor is working completely now.
what app version are you using?
did you attach the temperature sensor before including it to homey? (this is a MUST)
did you wire it properly?