I have a very strange thing happening… i have devices showing up, without having set them up. I have a few RFX devices, (x10 and LightwaveRF), and after a day or two had 2 more RFX devices showing up in ‘no room’, no idea what they were, just ignored them. Now i have another 2 ! So 4 devices which i have not created ! Some info i grabbed on them:
controlled via RFX
RFX Light L5.0/F3AF84/13
urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:BinaryLight:1
LS/L5.0/F3AF84/13
I just noticed, i also have 4 RFX remote controls, none of which i have programmed in (I have not got any RFX remotes)
RFX Remote L5.0/F3AF84
urn:rfxcom-com:device:LWRFRemote:1
RC/L5.0/F3AF84
[quote=“mikee123, post:1, topic:174524”]I have a very strange thing happening… i have devices showing up, without having set them up. I have a few RFX devices, (x10 and LightwaveRF), and after a day or two had 2 more RFX devices showing up in ‘no room’, no idea what they were, just ignored them. Now i have another 2 ! So 4 devices which i have not created ! Some info i grabbed on them:
controlled via RFX
RFX Light L5.0/F3AF84/13
urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:BinaryLight:1
LS/L5.0/F3AF84/13[/quote]
Do you have a LightwaveRF remote/controller ?
This device certainly correspond to something,
I just noticed, i also have 4 RFX remote controls, none of which i have programmed in (I have not got any RFX remotes) RFX Remote L5.0/F3AF84 urn:rfxcom-com:device:LWRFRemote:1 RC/L5.0/F3AF84
It is normal, you should have device of this kind for each remote/controller you are using. There are special actions you can do from this device, like mood or group ON…
By the way, I am thinking about the best way for the user to define which devices has to be definitively suppressed, meaning without an automatic creation later. It will allow you for example to suppress the RFX Remote devices if you don’t need ithem and then avoid an automatic creation ater.
I can do it easily through an additional variable to set in the advanced tab. Or I can do it with a better UI (largely more work).
It is my top priority for this plugin. Should be released in the coming days.
I think that explains part of it. 3 of the remote controls which have been created are for x10 groups i think, one is for lightwave. I do not have any lightwave controller, just a few dimmers and a couple of lightbulbs, i use the vera lite as my lightwave controller. So i think i understand where the remote controls come from, but still not sure about the device
the lightwave remote control (in devices) has 5 mood settings, and a group off, but i do not see a way to program the mood or group off button. It would come in handy to use to group off to switch a bunch off dimmers off all at the same time if that would be possible. Can i just pair that remote control ‘group off’ with various dimmers , as i think i can pair every dimmer with up to 6 remote controls.
The LightwaveRF (L5.0) remote device is only created when the RFXtrx receives a LightwaveRF command. If you have no LightwaveRF controller / remote / wall switch, I clearly don’t understand how it was created.
I think that all dimmers/sockets attached to the same Remote Control (Vera) device (same remote id) should be put OFF when you push the “Group OFF” button. But you have to check the LightwaveRF user manual to be sure about that.
For the mood feature, I remember that a particular LightwaveRF device is required to program it.
I do have a few LightwaveRF dimmers, just no remote controls. Will try over the weekend to see what the remote does… would come in handy as an all off switch, but all my dimmers have different addresses, 1F 1 to 1F 3, 2F 1 to 2F 3 to have different addresses for different floors
I imagine you have created your Vera devices manually from the Settings tab of the plugin ? In this case, the Remote Vera device is not created, only the binary light or the dimmer device is created. It is probably something I should fix.
I know that you are not in this case as you have already the remote devices for an unexplained reason. Do you have a neighbour that could have LightwaveRF stuff ?
I dont think any of my neighbours have any home automation, and to be fair i struggle with one of my outside lights which is most of the time out of reach, so i dont think the neighbours could be the reason. And yes, i have created the dimmers manually with the rfx plugin
I would love to see the option to suppress automatically created devices as I’m picking up a number of temperature and humidity devices, probably from neighbours. just deleting the devices makes them go away for some time until the plugin creates them anew.
The variable AutoCreate is here since the first day, it allows to disable or enable the automatic creation of new devices by the plugin.
I just committed in the trunk ( trunk – RFXtrx Gateway ) an enhancement that allows to disable the automatic creation of unwished devices, even when AutoCreate variable is set to “1”. It can be useful for example when weather devices are created by the plugin but you don’t want them because they are not coming from your sensors but from your neighbor’s sensors.
Use the new variable DisabledDevices to list the devices you don’t want to be created. The value of this variable is a comma-separated list of “device id”. The “device id” is the value of the attribute “altid” you can get for any Vera device in the advanced tab of this device.
Note that you will have to delete manually the unwished devices that are already created.
And note that after the upload of the updated files and the reload of lua, you will have to clear your browser cache to see the new variable DisabledDevices in the advanced tab of the plugin device.
Here are two examples of what you can set in this variable:
TS/T1/1537
TS/T1/1537,LS/L6.0/9C4B/E1
Hi lolodomo,
Is it possible to create an “invisble room” for unwanted devices?
I don’t seem to have much luck with the DisabledDevices variable.
Thanks.
-theolsen
I will not implement something new because you don’t succeed in using the variable.
If there is a bug with the handling of the variable, I will fix it.
What value did you set for the variable ?