I bought a couple of these to attach to windows that I couldn’t justify running alarm cable to for my Real Security System. I’m impressed with the hardware; they are much smaller than I expected.
Including them in UI7 was not particularly straightforward. To begin with, including the sensors took many attempts. Clicking the sensor’s tamper/include button three times (as explained in the manual) was generally not enough. Madly clicking it six or more times tended to be more reliable. UI7 doesn’t make exclusion mode easy to find, either, which didn’t help the situation when I botched the first inclusion. It also seems that UI7 does not expose the old Full Power Include mode, either, so I had to bring the sensors to within a metre of Vera for inclusion.
This sensor appears in Vera UI7 as a motion sensor by default. This is only a visual problem because Vera doesn’t care whether a sensor is motion, door, window, CO2 or smoke: The D_MotionSensor1.xml device type handles them all in UI7 (unlike in UI5 where you have to select DoorSensor1 or TempLeakSensor1 or whatever you have). To change the icon to the proper door/window sensor icon I had to go into the Advanced tab and change the subcategory_num value to 1.
None of the FGK-101’s Z-Wave configuration settings are pre-populated in the Device Options tab. If I wanted to control one of the ten or so parameters that these thing support I would have to add them by hand.
Battery level does appear correctly.
Tripping the sensor caused immediate change to the icon in the web UI and in HomeWave. There was no appreciable delay.
One of the FGK-101s I decided to insert a DS18B20 temperature sensor into before pairing, mostly because I just happened to have one in my stash of electronic bits. This FGK-101, upon pairing, produced one parent device in Vera (_MotionSensor) and two children (e1, also a _MotionSensor, and e2, a _GenericIO). I had to go into the e2 child’s Advanced tab and change its device type to “urn:schemas-micasaverde-com:device:TemperatureSensor:1” and the device filename to “D_TemperatureSensor1.xml” (edit: and device_json to “D_TemperatureSensor1.json”) before it reported actual temperatures (rounded to a whole number, naturally, sigh). It’s silly that the e1 child shows exactly the same data as the parent, but this has been already talked about at length in the context of UI5 and appears to be unchanged in UI7.
Hi. I’m new in this forum and a new user of my new VERA EDGE (This box software is really buggy!!!). Sorry about my bad English. Here is my problem:
I have a Fibaro FGK101 door sensor and one Fibaro Wall plug. These two devices are included in my VERA EDGE. The door sensor has a TEMP sensor too. Everyting work fine, just i don’t know how to trigger events when door sensor is open or closed. I have to scenes created.
Device FibaroFGK101 is named Senzor-Dnevna
Device Fibaro Wall plug is named VT-MM
Scene LIGHTON
Device trigger: Whenever Senzor-Dnevna is opened whether is armed or disarmed
Device actions: Immediately VT-MM On
Finish the scene: When I’m in Home mode
that’s it. The Second scene named Scene LIGHTOFF is the same, but with Immediately VT-MM OFF command.
Now, when i moved magnet to open (or close) my door sensor, blue led blinks once and that’s it. Don’t turn on my wall plug. If I put opened sensor for about 5-15 min then wall plug turns on. Like the Immediately command don’t work in scene…
And here are my settings for door sensor:
Wakeup interval (seconds): 1800
ID3
Poll this node at most once every 30 seconds (0=never poll, blank=default)
P.S.:
When i 3x press on TMP button on the door sensor wall plug turn ON/OFF immediately!!!
How to set up door sensor to work good??? Please, help.
Hello,
I purchased the Fibaro 3 - 1 sensor to remotely monitor water temperature of my oil furnace to make sure it was running at our second home. The unit i received was model FGK-103. I wanted to get the Fibaro Universal Sensor but these are not available yet for the US (Vesternet). I purchased a set of temperature sensors (Amazon: Vktech 5pcs 2M Waterproof Digital Temperature Temp Sensor Probe DS18b20) clamped one of the units to my furnace water discharge pipe. I then mounted the door/window sensor onto a block of wood to keep the tamper trigger engaged and mounted the magnet next to the sensor. All was great in planning until I went to try and actually include in Vera. The sensor would not show up properly in the dashboard, would keep sending “cant contact device”, “polling failed” errors etc etc. I could see a temperature reading in the advanced parameters of the generic I/O device, but not amount of changing files or parameters worked. I am using UI7 and apparently this is the main problem. I saw lots of posts about workarounds for UI5 and previous for this sensor but none of these worked for my install. I called Vera support and they had me submit a ticket. I also contacted Vesternet who were very helpful but advised to go back to UI5 since this sensor (among many others) has issues with UI7. Vera is pretty good and got back to me a couple of days and I just finished up a remote control session with them which took care of the problem. So what I have now is a parent sensor that shows up the correct door switch icon, a child device motion detector sensor and a child device thermometer style temperature sensor. The door window sensor trips as it should and the temperature reading is working OK on the dashboard. I don’t know exactly what they did remotely but I noticed there is 0 seconds poll, 900 sec wakeup, changed the device Id file to D_TemperatureSensor1.xml, changed the device json file to D_TemperatureSensor1.json and changed the subcategory num to 0. All of these changes were things I tried based on posts but I guess they only worked in the <=UI5 environment. The technician said the fixes will be included in the next firmware update so if you are thinking about buying one of these sensors you should not have any issues after that is uploaded. Hopefully this info will help someone else out there who was a frustrated as I was trying to get this thing to work!
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