How to get Scenes to work with OZW and Node Red?

Amishman · November 11, 2020, 1:22am

First, let me say I am new to Home Assistant and Node Red. I tried searching the forum and I found some results but I am not sure if they are for the old zwave or OZW. It’s very confusing to me and I could really use some help.

I have Home Assistant installed in VirtualBox on a Windows machine. I have the newest version of Home Assistant and the newest version of OZW installed. For testing, I only have 3 of my Inovelli switches connected to OZW. I am able to control on/off of the lights in HA and Node Red. I am not sure how to control the scenes. My switches are NZW30 and NZW31.

I found a couple of sub flows in this forum but it wants you to use an Events: All node set to zwave.scene_activated. I don’t have that or any ozw.scene_activated.

I see other posts that say to edit an zwcfg.xml but I can’t find that either.

If anyone is able to point me in the right direction with info or a link, that would be great. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Amishman · November 13, 2020, 1:09am

I figured it out. I am going to place this here in case anyone else might need it.

I imported the subflow @luke.hinrichsen posted in the thread in the above post.

Then, the starting node needs to be an “events: all” node. The “event type:” is “ozw.scene_activated”.

Next, is a switch node. The switches property needs to be msg.payload.event_id. enter the node id of the switch in the box.

The subflow node is next. Add the lights or devices you want controlled to the corresponding spots on the subflow.

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luke.hinrichsen · November 13, 2020, 2:39pm

Glad to see you were able to use the flow!

Because my 2 switches share a space and some scenes, I actually put a switch after the scene to route between my kitchen/dining room. Here’s my flow just for another example.

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Edit: I find the Home Assistant Node Red channel is pretty handy. I learn a ton there and help folks once in a while, too.