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General Category => Troubleshooting and Support => Topic started by: naps1saps on March 01, 2014, 12:43:05 AM

Title: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: naps1saps on March 01, 2014, 12:43:05 AM

I'm new to all this just got a house and want to link my First Alert zwave smoke alarm to my security sirens so I will know if the laundry room is on fire which is outside the house.  First problem is that HG doesn't know what to do with the smoke alarm it seems as it comes up as generic.  I selected sensor.  Triggering of the smoke alarm doesn't show any popup notifications in the top right to tell me what variable changes.  Second problem is that I will need to make a new program with specific sensors and I'm not sure how to do that.  I have done some basic programming in the past but I'm no expert.

On the other hand the basic security thing works great!

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: Gene on March 01, 2014, 01:04:52 AM

Smoke sensor alarm should be seen as Sensor.Smoke. If not so, then your smoke sensor is not correctly handled by HG.
Can you provide z-wave debugging info?
To capture debugging info, run HG from command line.

Cheers,
g.

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: naps1saps on March 01, 2014, 05:15:01 AM

I didn't think HG was going to be so in depth :o
What do you mean by running in the command line?  If I run "homegenie" in cmd, it does nothing and allows no input.  If I use the exit command it throws an unhandled exception.  Are there any flags I need to use? tried /debug and -debug  Is there any kind of help file or documentation?

ALSO, My first attempt at pairing a device paired a dimmer switch that does not exist.  How in the world do I un-pair it?

PS the smoke alarm also has CO detector as well.

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: dani on March 01, 2014, 11:24:52 AM

What is your platform ?
If you run HG under linux you have to launch Terminal and look at this screen shot to now the way for get ZWave in/out traces.

Cheers
Dani

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: naps1saps on March 01, 2014, 11:57:13 AM

I'm using windows server 2008

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: dani on March 01, 2014, 12:46:31 PM

I think under windows you have to stop the service.
In terminal you have to change to the folder of HG.
and after you launch homegenie as a task by simply tape :

$ HomeGenie.exe

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: naps1saps on March 02, 2014, 09:26:49 AM

Ok stopping the service worked.  Bunch of hex code writes out.

SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 0D 90
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 0D 00 E4
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 0E 00 04 00 09 08 72 05 01 38 00 01 00 02 B9
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 04 00 60 09 92
SPI > 06 01 04 01 60 01 9B
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 10 00 49 84 09 0A 04 A1 00 20 80 70 85 71 72 86 54
SPO < 06

This is when it pinged the device and got the supported classes:
Supported Classes
Basic, Battery, Configuration, Association, Alarm

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: naps1saps on March 02, 2014, 09:28:21 AM

This is when i opened setup with the device on, but not in add mode.

SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 04 99
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 04 01 EC
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 04 99
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 04 01 EC
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 04 99
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 04 01 EC
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 05 98
SPO ! ERROR: Object reference not set to an instanc
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 05 01 ED
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 05 98
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 05 01 ED
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 05 98
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 05 01 ED
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 05 98
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 05 01 ED
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 06 9B
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 06 01 EE
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 06 9B
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 06 01 EE
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 06 9B
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 06 01 EE
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 07 9A
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 06 9B
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8 18

ZWaveLib: bad checksum message 01 04 01 13 01 E8 18

SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 07 01 EF
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 07 9A
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 07 01 EF
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 07 9A
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 07 01 EF
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 07 9A
SPI > 06 01 04 01 13 01 E8
SPO < 06
SPI > 01 05 00 13 07 01 EF
SPO < 06
SPO < 01 09 00 13 09 02 72 04 05 08 95

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: naps1saps on March 07, 2014, 07:49:13 PM

Bump

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: Gene on March 07, 2014, 11:15:18 PM

Your smoke sensor is not replying to Manufacturer Specific Get because it's probably "sleeping".
Did you press the device button to wake it up before issuing the "Get" command?
Then you should associate node 1 (the z-wave controller) to group 1 to let HG receive alarm reports from your sensor.
g.

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: naps1saps on March 08, 2014, 03:22:55 AM

The first post is what happened when I woke it up and used the get command.  The second is what happened first before I woke it up.

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: naps1saps on March 12, 2014, 02:20:51 AM

bump

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: naps1saps on March 14, 2014, 10:42:26 PM

returned the smoke alarm and smoke + co alarm.  Will buy another brand.  Any suggestions?

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: Gene on March 15, 2014, 01:27:40 AM

Mmm... did you try it with some other software before returning it? =)
HG *should* support that kind of sensors, but as far I remember only *one* user reported his smoke/flood sensors working succesfully with HG.
You can search for that in the old forum at sourceforge.

Cheers,
g.

Title: Re: Safety Alarm Module?
Post by: naps1saps on March 15, 2014, 07:08:27 PM

Would the fact that it was a smoke + co have anything to do with it?