Ok, I have had Vera running for over a year now - and I decided
to try something that I thought would be easy, and cool.
Here is what I wanted to do:
have my basement out-door Evolve LSM-15 switch cause the
event (when turned on) to start a scene that turned on another
out door light.
have my basement out-door Evolve LSM-15 switch cause the
event (when turned off) to start a scene that turned off another
out door light. (same light in #1)
I figured this would be straight forward. I made a scene in UI4
that has
EVENT
Device: #32 basement outdoor light switch
Trigger: a device is turned on or off
Which mode On
This actually works, but the problem is that it can take close
to a minute for Vera to respond to the switch being turned
on or off. PLEASE tell me that there is some silly setting that I
missed. I tried messing with the switches setting:
Poll this node at most once every ___ seconds (0=never poll, blank=default)
but things did not improve.
So, what is the magic trick to make this scene more responsive?
You are not missing anything. The evolve z-wave devices do not support instant status updates to Vera (due to patent issues with Lutron). What this means is that Vera would have to poll the evolve device to get the status change. So what you are seeing is pretty standard.
I bought the Z-wave hardware SDK ($2K) and I cant tell
you how disappointed and UN-impressed I am. It is so
overly complex, over-thought out, designed-by-committee
that simple and obvious stuff, like making a damn light
switch easily TELL the controller that its state has changed,
is left in the weeds - or more accurately, left in the lawyers
hands. Not to mention that this object oriented over-complex
crap is left to run on a 8 bit micro with 32K of flash. (Sorry
for the rant. Hearing this just makes me want to explode!)
How Sad. remind me again why I love paying 4X
as much as (crappy) X-10 switches?? Oh yeah, b/c X10
really sucks.
So, how do I tell Vera to poll this one switch, allot? Please
tell me someone has solved this? I got over $3K in Z wave
crap, Plus a $2k SDK, and I am not feeling the love right now…
Garret, Is the lack of instant polling common with all wall switches or is it just the lutron ones? If so, that is a good reason to buy a different make.
Is there a list anywhere that tells us the pros and cons of each component that is readily available?
[quote=“mr crewcab, post:4, topic:173050”]Garret, Is the lack of instant polling common with all wall switches or is it just the lutron ones? If so, that is a good reason to buy a different make.
Is there a list anywhere that tells us the pros and cons of each component that is readily available?
To the OP, you may want to see if your Evolve switch can control other switches via association. According to its specs, it supports “Scene - Command Class”. The description at Smarthome says, “These switches are RF lighting receivers that also act as transmitters, capable of issuing commands to other Z-Wave devices.” Here’s a brief description of how I did it with a different brand: [url=http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,10295.msg72666.html#msg72666]http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,10295.msg72666.html#msg72666[/url].
now strange things are happening, i have only had my system up and running for a few days. i have 4 control modules (2 screw in modules, 1 indoor dimming, 1 outdoor plug-in) from intermatic home settings, for the first couple of days the modules would provide instant feedback from any of the modules back to vera3 now today none of them will do an instant feedback. they require the polling time to show their position.
One thing that I noticed is that before when i shut off the on/off switch, it used to flicker for a second, i think it was transmitting back to vera. today it isnt flickering, any ideas?
Is there any way to adjust the “speed” that Vera
polls a z-wave device? I don’t need to poll every device
on my network fast, just this one damn switch.
I think I am just going to build a Vera “input” board that
can trigger Vera scenes. I am an EE and own a small
manufacturing company. I think I could make a wireless
board, in small quantities, that would have 8 inputs
and possibly 8 relay outputs for ~ $150. Would anyone
on this forum be interested in such a device or is this a
“has already been done” deal?
I want to be able to put up $15 PIR sensors, and
$1 reed switches to control my lights. I love Vera
(mostly) but I just cant part with $50-100 per sensor!
[quote=“lfaustini, post:11, topic:173050”] Is there any way to adjust the “speed” that Vera
polls a z-wave device? I don’t need to poll every device
on my network fast, just this one damn switch.
I think I am just going to build a Vera “input” board that
can trigger Vera scenes. I am an EE and own a small
manufacturing company. I think I could make a wireless
board, in small quantities, that would have 8 inputs
and possibly 8 relay outputs for ~ $150. Would anyone
on this forum be interested in such a device or is this a
“has already been done” deal?
I want to be able to put up $15 PIR sensors, and
$1 reed switches to control my lights. I love Vera
(mostly) but I just cant part with $50-100 per sensor!
Any thought on this?[/quote]
If you build it, they will come. I have seen others starting to integrate the arduinos into Vera. Might want to have a look.
I will build it. Now that I see that I can trigger a scene with a http://get request, l can trigger easily. Can I “set” devices in vera via http request? I can build a device that is able to connect to the network and talk over sockets quite easily. The question is, how would I “put” data to vera so that it would be useful? I ten to think in C, so the Vera paradigm is new - and a bit rough to me.
for example, if I have a bank of 8 inputs, how would you suggest i “put” that data to Vera? Let say I also have 8 analog inputs, how would I give that data to vera so that it would be useful for triggering events? If one of the analog inputs is temperature, how could I present this to Vera’s “variables” such that if I wanted to have a “script” run every 10 seconds to control an attic fan?
ps: I set the switch to:
“Automatically configure -->YES”
“Device options: Group ID 1, set to 26,33”
I am under the impression that doing this causes the
switch to broadcast its status to Vera, and then have Vera
turn on the other switches? Does this mean that I no longer
need the Scenes that I wrote that were triggered by the switch
to set the states of the other switches (26 and33)? I would prefer
to just have Vera manage the other switches, via scenes. I don’t
really understand the association, as this is an on-off switch now
associated with dimmers. What will the association do to the dimmer?
Turn it 100% on or 100% off? not real clear on this.
—Lou
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I have seen others starting to integrate the arduinos into Vera. Might want to have a look.