[OBSOLETE] Aeotech Multisensor 6 (gen 5 zwave plus, model ZW100-A)

btk · November 5, 2015, 4:22pm

It does not.

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Robert_Vandervoort · November 6, 2015, 5:06am

@bs87 haha, this is so crazy. I edited my device type with the range limits and tested and it worked in android and I was excited and went to come post here but you guys already figured that out… LOL! I’m late to the party again!

So, I don’t see the need for rounding… Why bother? If people want to do a tenth of a degree why not just let them?

SDpyro · November 6, 2015, 5:22am

I am not able to add this sensor.

I get the following error:
An unexpected error occured.

bs87 · November 6, 2015, 5:37am

@Robert_Vandervoort so were you able to put the decimal in the range or just an integer? I tried the decimal 10.0 and it was still crashing the app.

i think the rounding idea was for taking 9.9*10=99.0 to 99 but i doubt the sensor is that picky that it wont just accept a 99.0. or maybe smartthings will just send a 99 for a 99.0 decimal anyway? would have to test more to be sure.

Robert_Vandervoort · November 6, 2015, 5:57am

IOS doesn’t let me add decimals. I’ll check it out tomorrow.

In the meantime I just put out 2.0 code moving over to the “new school” multi-attribute tile interface. I picked temp and humidity as that is what I personally care to see while browsing my rooms. I only use motion to trigger events, but the other tiles are still kept of course in the details view.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robertvandervoort/SmartThings/master/Aeon%20Multisensor%206/device_type-aeon-multisensor6-v2.0

Lind_Lau_el_Loren · November 6, 2015, 12:13pm

My impresions:

Colors for light tile are bit awkward. At high lux value its pretty much unreadable.
UV is always showing 0. Is that known isue?
Can’t see humidity in app. It’s showing fine on smarttiles

Other than that. Really nice job.
I’m in UK (nexus6)

PeteB · November 6, 2015, 12:20pm

@Robert_Vandervoort

Liking the large icon addition! If you want to allow decimals then you need to change line 168 to “decimal”. Also, I see that you have put the line 171 to range: “-11…11”. Is that intentional as on my iPhone this lets me enter 11 and that will get scaled up to 110 to send to the sensor. The spec says only -100…100 as valid entries.

@bs87

The point of the rounding is to work correctly if a user enters too many decimal points, e.g 4.59 rather than 4.6. Without the round(), you will be sending 45.9 to the sensor which gets truncated to 45 but with the round the sensor gets 46.

Interesting that the android bug is with the implementation of the range parameter. Seems that we need to stick with range: “-10…10” to maintain compatibility across both platforms. Luckily this is benign bug and still allows entering decimal offsets.

Just curious but does any range statement with decimals consistently crash on Android, e.g. range: “5.5…9.9” ? If so this should be a straight forward ticket for tech support to drill into. A bit poor if you cant set decimal ranges on Android.

Widzinschinke · November 6, 2015, 1:44pm

anyone having any issues with unexpected outages? One of my sensors stopped sending data to the network last night. I had my wife check for me since I’m at work right now and she said the blue LED flashed when she approached so the device has power. It is, however, listed as INACTIVE in the IDE. Is this jsut a remove and rejoin fix? Pull the batteries? Any recommendations I can try when I get home?

wipeout944 · November 6, 2015, 3:17pm

So this is interesting…on Android, humidity is missing. It’s there on iOS. Thinking this is maybe app, not device type, but curious.

bs87 · November 6, 2015, 4:10pm

@Lind_Lau_el_Loren and @wipeout944

For the UV, it takes some powerful UV to trigger it, mine is under an awning so it never changes but if you point it towards the sun you can get a reading. Not sure if this is by design or a flaw but I really have no way to verify.

The light, we need to get around to changing the font color as we change the background color. It’s on my list to improve but lower priority than some of the other issues we’ve been working through.

The humidity and funky temperature font size seems to be an android issue. It seems that SmartThings doesn’t do the same QA (if any TBH) on the android app.

v1.9 of my device type seems to work a little better on android right now but @Robert_Vandervoort seems to work better on iPhone. Try them both and see which one works better for you.

github.com

87racer/Aeon-SmartThings/blob/master/Aeon Multisensor 6/device_type-aeon-multisensor6-v1.9

/*
 * V 1.9 of Multisensor 6 code 11/4/2015
 * Uses some original code from @Duncan Aeon Multisensor 6 code for secure configuration, Copyright 2015 SmartThings, modified for setting
 * preferences around configuration and the reporting of tampering and ultraviolet index, and reconfiguration after pairing.
 * Robert Vandervoort 6/19/2015 - 9/20/2015
 * Bradley Shubin 10/28/2015 - 11/4/2015
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 *  in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 *  on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 *  for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 * 
 * INSTRUCTIONS: Pair device to SmartThings by double tapping the inclusion button. Allow it to join with SmartThings device type. After
 * adding, go to device entry in the website, edit it, change type to Aeon Multisensor 6 - RV, open device in SmartThings app, edit
 * edit preferences to your liking but do not save yet, short press action button on sensor one time and the light should go blue, hit save
 * in the app, a couple seconds later the light should go out (you can verify in live logging that it says it woke up and settings were sent

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MattCi · November 6, 2015, 10:28pm

Hello Again bs87,

I still have an issue to connect my Multisensor… I did exactly all what you said. Do you have any idea.

You are all talking about the ZW100-A model but mine is ZW100-C … Could the problem come from that?

Thank you again are sorry for my dumb attitude…

bs87 · November 6, 2015, 10:42pm

AFAIK the C model is just the European one and the A is the US one. I don’t think they are really different but can’t say for certain. I think a couple people have gotten bad sensors and exchanged them but it could be that you need to exclude the device due to a failed pairing. I haven’t gone through that process but it’s somewhere in the IDE. Maybe someone with more experience on that can weigh in? or do a search through the forum for how to exclude a device, I am sure someone has posted some instructions.

Robert_Vandervoort · November 7, 2015, 12:03am

I talked with support a while back. At this point the foreground color automatically changes based on the background color. The reason I chose to change the background color is because a lux value is irrelevant to me. I like to be able to glance at it and know is it dark, dim, light, bright. Also j combined humidity into the multi attribute tile so it’s now in the bottom left corner in the 2.0 code. Relative humidity is normally not all that important to me since my ac controls it but j do want to see it without having to dig, more so than lux or uv. Yes UV is incredibly insensitive. I had to put the sensor face up at the sun outdoors here in Texas to register a 7. The max is 11. This is because they sort of hide the sensor. Plastic also filers UV so until they use a glass lens this will be a problem. On the note about tamper, there is not to my knowledge real implementation of it. I had initially implemented it as a touch sensor. Some do it as an acceleration sensor. The truth is it can be implemented however you want. In the native code for the zwave device it is part of the alarm function that would be in the same class as a motion detector for a burglar alarm. Ultraviolet didn’t even HAVE a capability for it a few months ago. Crazy how fast stuff changes here which is a good thing really.

bs87 · November 7, 2015, 12:54am

Hmm hadn’t actually looked, but there isn’t a font change attribute. It is always white, somebody didn’t really think that through.

I really think they need a [better] UX team that reviews everything for usability and bugs. Maybe they could reach out to some of their most active\prominent external developers and show them mock ups and get feedback before implementing.

Yea hopefully it keeps getting better and better.

jimrobertsemail · November 7, 2015, 4:48pm

Im using the Aeon Multisensor 6 - RV 1.5 device type under iOS 9.01 on iphone 6+. Also tried on iOS 9.1 on iphone6. I had 2 sensors and both exhibit the same behavior. All of the fields seem to be populating correctly however the config button does not do anything. Is this normal? I can change the settings via the developer web interface, just not the config.

wipeout944 · November 8, 2015, 1:39am

Comfig doesn’t “do” anything visually. From a previous @Robert_Vandervoort when I asked about the same thing…

“When you hit config it won’t appear to do anything but it is blindly sending the config commands to th device in the hopes it is listening. You can go to the login for the ide and see it work in the live logging view. You’ll see a successful response there too in the form of the sensor returning a report of various metrics and the battery level after a fe seconds”

Robert_Vandervoort · November 8, 2015, 5:05am

@wipeout944 @jimrobertsemail Correct. In the newest code though 1.5 and actually 2.0 is out, as part of my configuration action I pull the configuration values set on the sensor after setting them so you can verify they took. I’ve set the delay between commands out a bit for cases where the signal might not be amazing so the config should take better. Really, the best results will be had if you plug the sensor in via USB and just hit config. That way you don’t have to tap the action button to wake up the sensor. When you hit the config tile what happens is any preferences you set prior like temp offset or clear after motion timeouts, pir sensitivity and the lot, along with some basic settings that need to be present for it to work the way I intended, get sent.

I’m going to write a proper instruction manual quite soon. It’s taken a bit to iron out exactly the best way to do everything but I think it’s almost there. One thing I’ve seen common is that folks just change the device type and don’t do the config which means reports dont get sent but every hour and UV and tamper don’t work / clear. If I were to put it in bullet points it would go like this.

log in to the IDE and add my device type “from code” copy pasting the raw code from github and save it
open the live logging view in a new tab
put smart things into inclusion by doing the add device procedure on the app
with the sensor plugged in via usb, quickly double tap the action button. The light on the sensor should blink blue quickly. If it was previously joined, exclude it from smartthings with the app if you can, if not, just remove the device and hold the action button down for 30 seconds until it blinks red quickly then returns to scrolling through the various colors.
before you do anything else and when you see the device smartthings found on the screen, go to your devices, select the newly added sensor and edit it, change the device type to my device type and save it.
back on your app, click the device on the screen to add it… walk through the next few steps setting preferences and smart app stuff if you like.
after you save the preferences the device should update and send the configuration. you can see this on the live logging view in the debug comments. it may help to select just the newly added sensor.

Hope this helps.

I’ve also put up a new device type today for Aeon’s Smart Switch 6 which, I feel, is a pretty sweet little device. Compact, handles 15 amps, has over current protection, reports watts, volts, amps, kwh, kVAh, has adjustable night light colors and a side USB charge port…

Cheers

Robert

wipeout944 · November 8, 2015, 5:58am

Nice, want to pick up one of those switches soon anyway!

thepollara · November 9, 2015, 5:39am

@Robert_Vandervoort Really great work! Was wondering if you could help me in getting the motion to be the main tile. In the list view it would be ideal to see the motion status over the temp. Tried to give it a go myself but I’m no good at the styling. Thanks!

Lind_Lau_el_Loren · November 9, 2015, 9:56am

look for something like (line 159):

	main([
    	"main"
        ])

change “main” to “motion”, the second main, not the first main

save, publish, done

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