I recently installed a Dakota Alert WPT-3000 wireless probe transmitter and a WR-3000 Wireless receiver. So far, so good with the system. I would like to figure out a way to connect z-wave to the receiver so that someone coming in the driveway can trigger a z-wave event. I found bits and pieces on other forums that talk about wiring the receiver to part of a z-wave door sensor or something like that so that a driveway alert also triggers the door sensor.
I’m not much of a solder iron geek, but am willing to try (hopefully without destroying my receiver). I’d certainly consider taking the unit to an electronics store and let someone with skills to the wiring if I knew what to do.
What about tapping into the leads that go to the chimer?
If anyone can offer advice and/or a how to, it would be much appreciated.
When looking up the receiver I found some little description, but no schematics or even a view of the inside of the unit. The description is as follows
“The WR-3000 is equipped with four form “C” relays (one for each channel), and one 12-volt DC output terminal that will activate for several seconds when a signal is received. The receiver can be user-programmed, so the 12-volt DC terminal and one relay will activate for 10 minutes, if this is desired. The tones will still sound for several seconds.”
What you would need to do is replace the reed switch in a door module with a set of wires going to, what I’m assuming is, a dry set of contacts in the receiver module. The description is not as clear as I would like. As for the soldering I don’t have a Zwave door sensor to see how difficult this would be, but I can’t imagine it would be too much trouble. I wish they had a door sensor with an external reed switch like the SkyLink sensors. That would make it dead simple, no soldering at all.
If you crack open the unit and have a look at the contacts mentioned in the description, and hopefully the instructions will have a description of the use of such relays, you should be able to get an idea of what is needed. The door sensors are 50 bucks on Amazon, but if you’re game it could be the best money you ever spent.
Alternately, I noticed that the receiver has a dog whistle siren. You could train the family dog to turn on a light when the thing goes off. hahaha
You wouldn’t need to solder anything to the door sensor, as they generally all have terminals to connect an external input. All you need is wire and a screw driver… Oh well you just need to work out what to do with the other end
I took a picture of the insides of the WR-3000 and have posted it full size to be able to see its “guts”.
On the bottom of the receiver, I see 4 channels and 12v out terminal. Outside of training my dog (good idea, probably harder than wiring a z-wave sensor :-), should I choose one of the channels or the 12v out for the wiring on the sensor end?
Is there one Z-wave door sensor that will work better than another for this purpose? If anyone has a diagram on how to wire to the z-wave door sensor, that would be much appreciated. Will share as project moves along. Next step is to order a door sensor.
Yeah, that’s awesome. You should just be able to wire between “COM” and “NO” and connect it to the aux input that Strangely mentioned. Looks like a piece of cake now.
Just ordered Everspring window/door sensor. Info stated that sensor can be wired to other devices such as doorbells to trigger events. Will update when have sensor.
If this works, I will be more than a little bit psyched. If this goes well, I’ll probably try to do the same process with a wireless doorbell.
You’ve given me the bug to do this now. I think next week I’ll order all the stuff to put it all together. I had already thought about doing a driveway sensor, but now that you can hook it to Vera… Bonus!
Keep us posted on your progress.
Just think of all the scenes you could trigger… Some for when you’re away, some for when you’re on vacation, some for when you’re home. Lots of possibilities.
If you don’t mind my asking, how is the deal compared to where you purchased yours? I found the same kit on the site you posted, but it was a bit higher. And of course Amazon has their hooks in me with the Prime thing.hehe
Step 2-I received my Everspring SM103 Door/Window detector and have included on my z-wave network. The device has small wire ports to be able to wire the sensor to multiple magnets. (attached pic of device and manual page that shows how to attach wire to magnets). I have also included the manual for the SM103 in pdf format.
I am guessing that I wire the sensor to the driveway alarm ports, then what? I’d like to start the system and test it by having it turn off and on some z-wave lights I have when the driveway alarm is triggered.
When I wire the door sensor to the driveway alarm, what happens to the magnet? Does the driveway alarm play the role of the magnet and triggering the driveway alarm is the same as separating two magnets as far as the sensor is concerned?
I don’t have any time to fiddle with it until this weekend, but any general or specific advice would be appreciated.
Looks like, according to the poor English, in the manual. That the external wiring supersedes the internal switching as it says “…both of which types cannot be in existence at the same time.” So, yes the driveway relay should take the place of the door sensor magnet setup, or reed switch.
I got to thinking also about using the N.O. vs. N.C. contacts in the relay box. I think that either should work as I believe the door sensor “Alarms” for either event (opening or closing a door). And I don’t know that there is a difference if the reed switch in the door sensor is open or closed. Maybe somebody could answer that question. Does the door sensor present two different alarms to Vera based on whether the switch is being closed or opened? That would be interesting as you could set up a log and find out how long the garbage man was spending at the house, or the mailman (heaven forbid hehe).
I haven’t had any time lately to work on the project myself. I hope I can get started on it in the next couple of weeks at least.
[quote=“mundyb, post:12, topic:170764”]Looks like, according to the poor English, in the manual. That the external wiring supersedes the internal switching as it says “…both of which types cannot be in existence at the same time.” So, yes the driveway relay should take the place of the door sensor magnet setup, or reed switch.
I got to thinking also about using the N.O. vs. N.C. contacts in the relay box. I think that either should work as I believe the door sensor “Alarms” for either event (opening or closing a door). And I don’t know that there is a difference if the reed switch in the door sensor is open or closed. Maybe somebody could answer that question. Does the door sensor present two different alarms to Vera based on whether the switch is being closed or opened? That would be interesting as you could set up a log and find out how long the garbage man was spending at the house, or the mailman (heaven forbid hehe).
I haven’t had any time lately to work on the project myself. I hope I can get started on it in the next couple of weeks at least.[/quote]
yup 2 alarm states on and off. can also attach a mains-supply and set power-saving to off which make it perform a lot better.[left]The Configuration parameter that can be used to adjust the phase level of ON[/left]
command is transmitted is Configuration Parameter # 1. This parameter can be
configured with the value of 0 through 127.
Value 0: Set Device OFF(0x00)
Value 1-99: Set Device On (1-99)
Value 100-127: Set Device On to the last phase (0x0f) Note: [left]0xFF means the device will be on to the last phase that the device was turned off.[/left]
[left]it appears one can reverse the switches behaviour also[/left]
I assume that I make these settings on the advanced tab, but after that, I have not delved too much into the available settings. Any suggestions on what settings to make for the device (what to enter on the advanced tab for the device)?
A little bit of progress. Door sensor is on my z-wave network and was functioning correctly with vera. When the contact was closed, I get the little man standing there (see pic). When magnet was moved away, I would get little man running (see pic). So far so good.
Wired two leads from sensor to “com” and “no” on the Dakota receiver as earlier suggested (see pic).
However, this set up does not seem to change the behavior of the sensor. It still only responds to the magnet, not the driveway alert receiver.
Do I need to do some fiddling with the sensor on Vera to change the setting to external? I did not see anything in the door sensor manual. It only says you need to do one or the other (external wired to two magnets or direct to one magnet).
So two things left-
Get sensor to recognize driveway alert
Set sensor to “do something” like trigger a scene. I am thinking at this point, I’d like the sensor to blink the lights. Later, my long term goal is to have the sensor trigger the system to pause what I am watching on TV and go to a video camera feed for a set period of time.
tried holding these two wires u attached together, to see it triggers or not ?
tried remove magnet?.. read manual? … programmed rs3000 output channel ?
Great tips. Touched wires together and running man icon changed. Went back to manual and realized the different channel settings were also the different ringer settings. I changed the dip switches on the sending unit to match with channel 1 and tested system again–it worked!! The driveway alert triggered the sensor.
With this set up the sensor shows as open until driveway alarm is triggered, then it goes to closed state. I need to figure out how to reverse the device settings on Vera so that the sensor is showing as closed until the driveway alert is triggered.
Now that the driveway alarm is talking to vera via the door sensor, how do I program the sensor to trigger a scene or event? I’d like to have the scene be to blink the lights.
Update-Changed the “tripped” variable to 0 in the advanced tab for the door sensor. Now I have standing man icon, so that seems to have worked.
I found this bit of code on the forum that folks used for various purposes including blinking your Christmas lights. How do I enter this code info the detector? Mysticjay says create an event for your sensor, then use this code from Ap15e using the ID’s of the lights that you would like to blink.
Can anyone walk me through the steps to add this to the sensor so that the lights blink 3 times and then go back to original state?
--Enter the device ID's here in the array with your device id's
local array_lights = {1,2,3}
local original_status={}
local counter = 10
local delay = 3
function set_switch(device,value)
luup.call_action("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1","SetTarget",{ newTargetValue=value },device)
end
function tree_on()
for i, device in ipairs(array_lights) do
set_switch(device,"1")
end
luup.call_delay( 'tree_off', delay )
end
function tree_off()
counter = counter-1
if counter > 0 then
for i, device in ipairs(array_lights) do
set_switch(device,"0")
end
luup.call_delay( 'tree_on', delay )
else
--Set to original status
for i, device in ipairs(array_lights) do
set_switch(device,original_status[i])
end
end
end
--Save Original status
for i, device in ipairs(array_lights) do
original_status[i] = luup.variable_get("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1","Status", device)
end
tree_off()
