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These switches don't have anywhere near the adjustability of the HomeSeer switches and dimmers through parameters, but there are a few. The motion detector is advertised as having a 180 degree detection area, and so far, it seems close to that.Įrgonomically, the switch looks quite good, and the button presses have a solid feel, with the usual click of an on/off switch.
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With the sensitivity turned to "high", the motion detector triggers very quickly, which is good, as the light turns on in the room nearly instantly upon entering (and this is using a program on my ISY to turn on the lights, the load being controlled by a Z-Wave HomeSeer WD 200+). Which makes it operate exactly like any other Z-Wave motion detector I've owned.
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I have the switch set to Manual Mode (there are three operational modes for this deviceġ) - Occupancy - the motion detector directly controls the loadĢ) - Vacancy - the motion detector will not turn the load on, but will turn it offģ) - Manual - the motion detector will not turn the load on or off) I have this device installed where it load it controls is a closet light, but that's not the device that I want the motion sensor to activate. The installation created 5 nodes (screenshot), though only two are really useful in my installation (On-Off Power Switch and Motion Sensor 1). It does, however, share that junction box with a HomeSeer WD 200+, which acts as a Z-Wave repeater, so that may have helped. I was happy to note that I was able to include the switch from the junction box it was installed in, which is roughly 60' from my ISY. Installation was easy enough, though the device is roughly the same size as an Insteon SwitchLinc or a HomeSeer WD 200+.
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My ISY is running the current 5.3.0 firmware/AC with the 500 series Z-Wave dongle installed.
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Matthias Miehl - Embedded Software Engineer – 15 Mar 19 Creating Z-Wave devicesĪn overview of what it means to build a Z-Wave slave device based on the 500 Series chips without a separate host MCU.In an effort to eliminate motion sensors (barnacles, as my wife calls them), either Z-Wave or Insteon from the walls of our house, I bought one of these in order to see if it could be a useful alternative. It looks like someone put together a blog post to make your own zwave device, and although its not something I have experience in, definitely looks possible for someone with the skills.
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While implementing double tap in theory should be easy enough, once you look at all the steps needed, with the limited processing power and storage capacity of the older non-zwave plus switches, I just don’t see how you actually can make it happen, no matter how well the firmware is written.Īs far as custom, open source zwave firmware, I think someone could do it with the newer 500 series chips and up, as they give you much more wiggle room to work with from a programming perspective. Newer Jasco switches use the central scene command class, which I don’t think was supported until the 500 series chips came out. The device also needs the ability and memory to store the Node ID’s of associated devices (the old trick was to add the hub as a double tap associated device to get the double taps reported). With the first line zwave plus switches, that was with the double tap association. In zwave to support double tap, you now have to add an entirely new command class.
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Previous hardware may have limited code space, but otherwise, multi-tap is trivial to implement. Apparently, lots of returns to Home Depot. Yes, I could buy fancier brands with better support, but I routinely find new/mint Jasco devices on eBay for cheap. You might also have to open up the device to load the initial alternate firmware. Of course, that would blow the whole ‘certification’ effort. I would love to see some open-source firmware developed. It’s always off unless you’re adjusting speed. For example, I have a bunch of the latest Jasco 55258 Fan Controller with no way to configure the LED operation.
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It appears that Jasco is actually removing configuration options.
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Granted, the latest security may be too processor-intensive without dedicated hardware. Even if there was a firmware update, the firmware would not bring you the features of the newer Jasco zwave plus switches, like double taps and S2 security, as the hardware itself in the 12727 doesn’t support this.