OpenHAB, Vera and Locks

Plugins & Plugin Development openHAB MiOS Binding
#1

I discovered that OpenHAB cannot support locks right now. I had a scene under UI 5 that would turn on certain lights when a pin code is entered. That scene stopped working when UI7 stopped working with my 30+ GE Link lights.

I’ve begun to migrate everything over to OpenHAB in order to control my lights, is it possible to keep my lock on Vera, but have it trigger a scene in OpenHAB to turn on the lights if a code is entered?

#2

Should be possible. I run my locks on Vera via the MiOS Binding and other things on OH1.

#3

The MiOS Item Generator will build the openHAB Items needed to “see” the bits of the ZWave Door lock that’s paired with Vera.

You’ll get access to both the locked/unlocked status of it (see example in the Wiki page) as well as events relating to who unlocked it (if your lock supports that today, under MiOS). To work-around some quirks in Vera, you may need the solution posed in:
MiOS Action - Missing variableSet call · Issue #4009 · openhab/openhab1-addons · GitHub

Up until a few months ago, I was using a Z-Wave door lock in this way.

As you remove devices from Vera’s Z-Wave network, it’ll become weaker (mesh-wise) so you may need to move Vera itself closer to the Door lock to keep it within range. YMMV here.

#4

Awesome, just what I needed to know!

Thanks a million!