Correct use of CA5100?

[masto (Christopher Masto)]

There are several threads on the forum that mention using the Intermatic CA5100 as a source of button presses to trigger events etc. Is this now supported out of the box or do I need to add custom code?

[joshua_lyon (Josh, SharpTools.io Dashboard)]

I’m also curious to hear the official SmartThings response. If the goal is to make the hub consumer friendly, I would hope that lessons learned for devices like this would get integrated into the official fold.

And for others who found this thread searching and want to try the manual way, I would try editing the device type zWaveEvent as follows:

Intermatc ca5100 not working for 3way

I’ve found this thread very useful. I’ve got 3 ca5100 devices and was worried they were useless. But following this thread I finally got it working. Thanks a ton! Using the Z-Wave Switch example for my new custom device type I added this method: def zwaveEvent(physicalgraph.zwave.commands.basicv1.BasicSet cmd) { [name: “switch”, value: cmd.value > 200 ? “on” : “off”, type: “physical”] } I’m not sure that the cmd.value > 200 was needed but I noticed it was sending 0 and 255. 0 was probably fine being false. Anyhow, combining this device type with The Big Switch I can now use the ca5100s to control and lighting in my house. Thanks again.