Z-Wave Door / Window Sensor | Project Home Alone

[jtronicus]

@Eric_Inovelli

Out of curiosity, is this a special Z-Wave command or is this just something you’d setup via your hub (ie: via scene control as you suggested)?

It appears to be an event type in the zwave Notification Command Class (similar to how motion detection and door status alerts are sent)

Notification Type: Emergency Alarm (0x0A)
Notification Name: Panic alert (0x04)

I found the information in this document: https://www.silabs.com/documents/login/miscellaneous/SDS13713-Notification-Command-Class.xlsx

[Snell]

Did not mean to be Inovelli-brand batteries, just selling packs of batteries you folks have found to work well. That way it makes it a “one-stop-shop” for the whole unit.

I would believe the door being cooler. I am always surprised by differences I spot when using my thermal camera.

[amdbuilder]

@Eric_Inovelli

Could you expand here a bit? I think I understand, but the one-time/two-time has me a tad confused lol.

Sure! The logic (at least in my head) is fairly simple. Let’s say the wife goes to work at 6AM, so you only need it to bypass the sensor once. If you take the dog out at say 7PM you would need to bypass it twice - once going out and again coming back in.

Naturally, the ability to control if the bypass is set for one vs two would be a nice touch. Because I am sure someone could think of a case to vary that throughout the day

[Snell]

So you are really thinking of 2 different methods, right? For that 6am time you just want it to bypass that current opening OR a short period of time. For that 7pm bypass you want it to keep it bypassed until it open/closes again sometime later.

Those sound like they might be a better thing to handle in your system’s Rules (or equivalent). It is not like the sensor has an alarm itself. So when you get the notification there is a bypass press between 5:45am - 6:15am (or a reasonable range) your Rules can ignore the next door open/close cycle or 5min (or whatever), or play a music clip saying “bye honey!”.

Similar thing for the “dog walking” routine, or it could recognize a double press of the bypass which means to ignore the next two open/close cycles or X time…

[Ma2J]

According to the instructions, I’m not supposed to swallow the battery??? I love those disclaimers!!! Every read a Harley Davidson manual? I’m surprised anyone would want to ride one with all the disclaimers they put in there…LOL!

If already requested above, consider these as an additional votes for the following:

Allow different reporting times and delta changes for temperature and battery levels. Examples:

• I personally don’t care about battery levels until <50% then every couple hours thereafter.
• Temperature changes for every degree change and/or every couple hours etc.

Anyway for future:

• Weather proof/resistant, extended temperature ranges for operation. Would love to use these for gates.
• Different color shells to blend in with current HW (like your paddles) or the environment (stealthy)
• Vibration sensor, detect when someone knocks on the door or is messing with a window.

[MRobi]

@TheBeardedTechGuy

• Vibration / Tilt sensor - to detect knocking at a door, a garage door opening, or a window being interacted with prior to being opened. Would want sensitivity control on something like this though.

I’ll second this one. I have 2 garage doors with tilt sensors and 2 more with just a contact sensor, and trying to setup the magnet is a major pain compared to just sticking it onto the door and using the tilt.

[keanoknick]

I would love to see a way to recess mount these into a door and the door frame, and still be able to easily remove them to change the battery etc… Yes I realize the button would not be accessible if recessed in the door, but I’d rather have them hidden than have the button.

[krisk]

@jtronicus

Option to send basic-set command to associated devices when sensor is opened/closed

Once I can get my hands on these sensors and some LZW42s this is exactly what I plan on doing. I was going to go with another brand for the door sensor, but with the lead time for the bulbs I might as well wait for this.

[jtronicus]

@Eric_Inovelli Are you sure this device supports temperature reporting? I dont see anything in the Manufacturer’s supplied manual about it.

I see that the deive supports SENSOR_MULTILEVEL_REPORT, but I dont see anything that defines what sort of sensors it is reporting on.

[Eric_Inovelli]

Yeah I have it running on Hubitat right now and it’s reporting temperature

Edit: Sorry had to remove/readd the screenshot without my IP address lol

[jtronicus]

OK, that must be what the interval in Parameter 33 is referring to then.

[stu1811]

Is that outside? Little chilly for inside.

[Eric_Inovelli]

It’s an exterior door, but the sensor is inside. I do keep it semi-cold in the house and it was in the lower 60’s today (but very windy) so it could be accurate. I’ve been meaning to buy a thermometer to check the accuracy.

[Snell]

Looking at that response (Hubitat, yeah!)… I do not see mention of the tamper notice or bypass button in it. Just not in the initial driver yet?

[Eric_Inovelli]

Yeah I think it’s a basic driver right now. I’ll confirm with @EricM_Inovelli about the tamper feature, but the bypass feature is in there

[EricM_Inovelli]

@Snell

mention of the tamper notice

Yes, it does send a report on tamper. I just need to add it to the driver.

[harjms]

@Eric_Inovelli

Edit: Sorry had to remove/readd the screenshot without my IP address lol

Is that a RFC1918 address? Because everyone has one…

[Eric_Inovelli]

Idk, could be – I’m a n00b and just saw numbers so I figured it was my IP address lol.

[stu1811]

If it was 192.168.X.Y or 10.X.Y.Z it is internal to your network and no one on the web can get to it via that IP.

[harjms]

Don’t forget 172.16.XXX.YYY/12 subnets.