Amazing, thank you for the continued support
@krlaframboise Hi Kevin, thank you very much for the code. I’m new to this. I have installed your DH (updated 3/14/20). I don’t see the option to make any changes to configuration either on the old ST App or on the new one (I have both).
Specifically I want to change the re-trigger time on motion sensor. Looks like the default is 30 seconds.
Thank you very much for your help!
Cog in top right corner of classic app shows the settings and the 3 dots in top right corner of the new mobile app expands a menu with a “Settings” option.
The device sleeps so after saving your changes you’ll need to manually wake the device up.
When you save the settings it should log a message explaining how to wake the device up so you might want to go into the IDE and open live logging before changing the settings.
@krlaframboise Hi Kevin, thank you very much for the quick response! I just sent you a little motivation via Paypal. Unfortunately I tried everything I could think of, including the Cog in old App and the 3 dots in the new App. See attached Screenshot.
All it gives me is the option to edit the name only. I don’t see any of the configuration options as in the Screenshots you included with the 1st post. Thanks again for your help!
If you installed and published the code before joining the device then it should have been assigned my handler, but it looks like it wasn’t so you’ll need to manually assign it.
Open the device in the IDE and change the “Type” field to Aeotec TriSenosr which will be at the very bottom of the list.
Thank you for the donation, I really appreciate it.
@krlaframboise that did it! Thanks again Kevin! Really appreciate it!
Off subject question… since you’ve done an awesome job with this integration and prompt to answer any questions any possibility to work on Garadget integration?
See my post at…
Hope you can help here as well. Thanks again!
Sorry, but I only work on integrations for devices that I own and writing a device integration using a 3rd party API bit me once so I now only write handlers for z-wave devices…
Is there a way to change out the motion on the main ST page to Temperature. I am using this for a Greenhouse temp monitor. I had a Qubino Z-Wave Plus On Off Thermostat 2 ZMNKID3 which was working but would go offline every couple of days. Turns out it was reporting up to 12 temp variations in burst that would only be a second long. Tech support asked me to exclude and re-include and it went south from there. It only partially installed as a energy device and then put my hub in a remove device loop for a day.
I was wanting a hard wire powered device but got this in quick. If you know of another good hard wired power device I would be interested in it and could use this device as a backup. I added your previous code change that shows Temp as the main tile but having the temp, instead of the motion, on the main panel would be great.
Thanks
The changes I mentioned only work for the classic mobile app.
If you don’t care about motion at all then removing the capability “Motion Sensor” line near the top of the code might solve your problem.
Kevin,
Thanks for the help. I tried removing the capability “motion sensor”. It didnt seem to do anything. I moved everything I could find that would have something to do with the order or main panel and it works perfect in the classic version but does nothing to the new app version. Problem is, I have know idea which edit did what because I was looking at the new version!
Is there anyway to make the new app version change? And do you have a recommendation for a hard wired temp sensor?
Thanks again for the help!
In addition to removing that capability line, remove the line below and the comma from the end of the line above it.
vid: "generic-motion-4"
The new mobile app caches the UI so you won’t see that change for 12-24 hours, but you can force it to refresh by creating a new DTH with a different name and then manually assigning it to the device.
Thanks Kevin. Your device handler worked great.
This was my first time messing with smartthings and a modified DH.
Luckily everyone’s comments helped me get there.
Consolidated how to setup / edit device handler instructions:
After device is already added as a device and working but you want access to the device settings,
Log into smartthings on the web.
go to my device handlers
create new device handler
from code
copy and paste code from github repo
save and publish
then edit the device and change type to the new aeotec trisensor which is located at the bottom of the dropdown list.
click update.
on the mobile smarttings app, open / reload the aeotec device, and now there will be the new settings menu.
thanks again Kevin - these options were exactly what I was looking for.
Anyone know if there is a device handler that runs local for this?
Hi @krlaframboise and others -
So, I just bought two of the Trisensors, and I cannot get either of them to respond as expected. The devices connect, I can change to your device handler, and I made the changes to the settings. Still, on both devices the illuminance sensor does not seem to be responding (which is really what I want these for) and the checkInterval state never seems to change.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
***UPDATE: I excluded the trisensor and started again from scratch. This time it worked. Go figure. Thank you for the DH @krlaframboise ***
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I signed up specially to thank you for creating this device handler. I’m using it on the ZWA005-C
The default one available through the app was severely lacking, and the LED motion sensor was driving me crazy - it was a google search on that topic that brought me to this thread. The sheer configurability that your device handler gives to this sensor makes me very happy with the purchase of it in a way I would not have been with the default device handler. Thank you.
Is there a way of recommending your device handler be made available in addition to / instead of the existing one, for those users unaware / uncomfortable with installing custom ones? I would imagine this would be in Aeotec’s interest too, given the extra options it unlocks.
Aeotec had links to several of my handlers, including this one, but I think the only ones left on their site are the Siren Gen5, Siren 6, and Doorbell 6 and they’re not easy to find.
That seemed to happen right around the time Aeotec announced that they were going to be manufacturing the SmartThings hub, but maybe that’s just a coincidence…
Manufacturers can submit custom handlers to be published, but if the device is functional with one of the generic built-in handlers they won’t approve a custom handler for it.
If it’s published then ST is responsible for it so it wouldn’t make sense for them to approve custom handlers when the device works fine without them.
Hi Kevin, Is there a way to put LUX/Illuminance as the main metric to track instead of the motion or Temperature.
Im using this sensor mainly to track the luminance in the house, and I have routines that switches lights on/off based on lux levels. Its working great, but sometimes to troubleshoot I need to refer to the lux levels from the main smartthings dashboard for easy reference.
If you can find a built-in handler that displays the way you want it to then you can replace the mnmn and vid attributes in my handler.
Because of ST caching issues you can’t just swap them out to see what they look like with my handler so you’ll have to create a different virtual device for each built-in handler you want to test.
If you replace those attributes in my handler it might take days for you to see the change because of the caching issues. The only reliable way to force the UI to change immediately is to remove the device, delete the handler, and create the new handler with a different name.
Long story short, it’s possible, but probably not worth it…
I just set this device handler up with my TriSensor. Thank you for developing it.
I wanted to have all LEDs off while I have the Settings screen up, that is how it is, but when I close that screen the LEDs start flashing again for Motion.
Am I doing something wrong?
Did you wake the device up after making the setting changes?
If not then you wouldn’t have seen that change immediately, but it should have synced that setting within 24 hours.