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Author Topic: Z-Wave Level Pool and Smart Lights incompatible  (Read 1559 times)

February 11, 2014, 07:51:33 PM
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jschuryk

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Hi Gene,

Just spent some time troubleshooting why my Smart Lights weren't turning off at the requested time...I had recently enabled ZWave polling and it appears the Zwave poll changes the lastupdate time on the object (even if the status has not changed), thus resetting the counter to zero, and it never reaches the timeout value to turn the light off.

I've disabled the Zwave polling on those lights - mostly they are controlled by the motion sensor so the status in HG will be correct (but not always).

Also, I've had to modify the smart lights to add the condition of "DoorWindow" in addition to "Sensor" as I'd like my garage lights to turn on when the door is opened.   Not sure if others would use this functionality or not - if so you might want to change it in the master.

Lastly - for large rooms (or strangely shaped ones) you need more than one motion sensor to keep the lights on - an enhancement would be to add another entry or two so you could have multiple motion detectors keeping a single light on.

Thanks a bunch for all your hard work - HG has turned into quite an impressive system.

Jerry

February 13, 2014, 01:12:05 PM
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Gene

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Hi,

thanks for reporting. Regarding polling, read my other reply:

http://www.homegenie.it/forum/index.php?topic=33.msg134

Cheers,
g.