Hi ,
I bought three of these units, foolishly believing that I’d be able to run a scene by simply clicking one of the four buttons. Well after nearly two months of numerous emails with as many different suggestions (none of which worked), Vera support finally arranged a time and phoned me.
Hats off to Steve Boicu who spent nearly two hours trying to sort out the problem. By this time I was giving up all hope of ever finding a solution to what I thought was a relatively simple task: ie to click a switch and turn some lights on!
But he did persevere and enventually wrote some script which runs in the EDIT STARTUP LUA in the Develop Apps Section. At last it worked, all be it with an annoying time delay. (see first attachment replacing XX with the device number of the scene controller and Y with the scene number you want to run)
But that wasn’t the end of my problems; I wanted each controller to run the same scenes especially an “Everything Off” State, but the code didn’t like it at all and came up with scene conflicts error messages. I then tried creating the same effect scene but with a different scene number and that worked. So I’ve now got all the buttons on all of the controllers working whoopee!!!
It’s only been about two months in the making!
It’s clear that for ZWave automation to expand into the general public domain, it has to work out of the box, otherwise the whole concept of home automation will become a farce.
However, I do have full faith in the technology and with the concept. If Vera and other manufacturers continually modify and improve the interface then it will become a reality I’m sure.
Whether such a lifestyle, fully automated and increasingly dependant upon technology would further the course of human evolution, is much to be considered. Arguably, such scenarios could stifle creativity, hinder social interaction and be fatally detrimental to the Homo Sapien.
Time will tell… much like the next firmware update!!!
Hello,
Cool, it seems you fixed something I am trying to get it to work for weeks now.
I bougth this WallC-S for my Vera Edge. But no matter what I try (parameters etc) a scene is NOT started when I push buttons.
As I own my Vera Edge for just 4 weeks now, I don’t understand your description here, with that files etc.
Could you, or someone else, explain how to do this, with some simple steps, please?
Thank you very very much.
Hi Veraedger,
First of all download the “Scene_ControllerVeraOrig.txt file”.
You then need to create some scenes you’d like to the controller to operate. Please note the scene number which is the greyed out (id:??) next to the scene you’ve created. You then need to allocate those scene numbers to the buttons on the scene controller ( though I don’t really know if this matters any more because of this coding) but its best to go through the process for any later firmware upgrades that may fix this problem.
Open up the above file and insert the device number of your controller, here it’s 53. (find this under Devices>Device(Your device)>Advanced> Device #53)
eg: luup.variable_watch(“scene_controller_53”,“urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:SceneController1”,“LastSceneTime”,53)
next input the scene number of the scene for button number 1, here it’s scene 3
if (lastSceneID== “1”) then
luup.call_action(“urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1”,“RunScene”,{ SceneNum=“3” },0)
luup.log(“Running Scene 3”)
Basically its saying when button 1 is pressed play scene 3. You then repeat this for the other three buttons.
Save this on your desktop is similar.
Next you have to open Settings>Apps>Develop Apps>edit Startup Lua. Click on the window to the left and paste your saved file here and click go.
I think I’ve done all the steps and the controller should now work. You’ll probably have to wakeup the device to enable button addressing. All 4 buttons together for 5secs until led turns green then button 1 (red led flashes quickly).
FYI I’ve been using these for a couple of weeks now and they are incredibly battery hungry. Not good at all really. It’s unclear whether this is the Vera or the actual controller. There’s no help from Zwave.me but Vera did write the code I’ve given you. If only they’d fix the problem at source!!! Good luck, let me know how you get on.
Thank you very much. I am going to try this this evening of tomorrow.
What about the settings for the parameters? Is that (out of my head) 0,0,5,5,5,5?
Oh and were is the other file used for? (ZWave Me WallC-S LUA startup code for Wall Controllers.txt)