HomeGenie Forum

General Category => Troubleshooting and Support => Topic started by: gijosh28 on February 06, 2014, 06:43:26 AM

Title: HomeGenie on a Pi as a secondary controller
Post by: gijosh28 on February 06, 2014, 06:43:26 AM

Hi,

My system is currently set up with a Honeywell L5100 panel as my primary z-wave controller.  As part of the alarm I have a Nexus 7 mounted to the wall, that is running alarm software.  I wanted to add voice control of the Z-wave devices and had some spare Pis laying around.  So I ordered an Aeon Labs Z-Stick, and figured I would use home genie on the Pi, along with the Home Genie app on the tablet for voice control.  The problem is I can't seem to get Home Genie to run as a secondary device, and I can't add any of my z-wave devices to the Z-Stick.  I assume I can't add them to the Z-Stick because they are already enrolled with the L-5100.  Can you provide some guidance?

Thanks,
Josh

Title: Re: HomeGenie on a Pi as a secondary controller
Post by: Gene on February 06, 2014, 02:42:41 PM

I think that Z-Stick should be added as a secondary controller from your L5100 panel.
Here there seem to be an explaination about how to do it:

http://www.floydtotalsecurity.com/userfiles/file/Lynx%20Touch%20%E2%80%93%20L5100%20Z-Wave%20Setup.PDF

after that I am not sure how HG will be able to query NIF / Capabilities from nodes, tough it should be able to list all devices.

Title: Re: HomeGenie on a Pi as a secondary controller
Post by: gijosh28 on February 09, 2014, 08:32:58 AM

Does HomeGeenie work with Kwikset locks and Honeywell Zwave thermostat?

Thanks,
Josh

Title: Re: HomeGenie on a Pi as a secondary controller
Post by: Gene on February 09, 2014, 03:31:36 PM

No locks and no thermostat supported at the moment.
I don't have such hardware, sorry.
This is open source project, so pheraps some user may add support for it in the future.

Title: Re: HomeGenie on a Pi as a secondary controller
Post by: bkenobi on February 09, 2014, 03:44:55 PM

Is there documentation on how to add a new module/controller/etc?  I was planning on adding the x10 chime module, but was not sure where the module code is located.  Currently I'm using a siren instead and that works reasonably well.

Title: Re: HomeGenie on a Pi as a secondary controller
Post by: Gene on February 09, 2014, 04:14:15 PM

Hi bkenobi,

I was planning to let user select custom icon images for modules. Would this be a good solution?

Title: Re: HomeGenie on a Pi as a secondary controller
Post by: bkenobi on February 09, 2014, 04:47:56 PM

There is a slight difference between the siren and chime for x10.  A siren is turned on and off but a chime is triggered on only.

Title: Re: HomeGenie on a Pi as a secondary controller
Post by: Gene on February 09, 2014, 06:38:24 PM

I see. Then a script should be triggered to implement that on/off logic.
Either using a virtual module, or by calling a wizard script.

Title: Re: HomeGenie on a Pi as a secondary controller
Post by: bkenobi on February 09, 2014, 07:28:43 PM

Yes, I'm using a script to take care of it right now.