I have a use case and trying to find a switch that will fulfill it. Can anyone help me out with this?
I want to have an in-wall z-wave switch controlling a light with smart bulbs. If the bulbs are powered but in the off state, I want the switch up event to trigger them to turn on (through smartthings). I have tested a GE z-wave switch and it can’t do this because if it is already on, it will not send any more button presses to smartthings when you press on again.
Will the homeseer switch do this for me? If it is already in the on state, will another tap up on the paddle send another button event?
Yes, the device handlers will send a button 7 event (single tap up) even if the HomeSeer switches are on. This was added a while back per suggestion from @partytime-excellent, although I haven’t heard if this functionality ended up working for him. The final HomeSeer switch device handler feature summary and button mappings are detailed in the release thread:
A smart bulb (wifi, zwave, zigbee) should always have power, thus having another zwave switch control it would remove power ocasionally, thus not recommend, unless I’m not understanding you. Got more info?
Yes you are correct. But I want a system that will both be easy for wife/guests to use, and work when internet is down.
I want to eventually have all wall switches replaced with smart switches. Rather than blocking off the ones with smart bulbs so they can’t be used, I still want a switch there just in a way that it can be used to turn on the bulb in any circumstance.
I hope that makes sense. I haven’t discovered any better solution.
Custom device handlers will not work without the internet, so much for local processing on the v2 hub, there’s fa ew exceptions. Switch will turn on off, but special double, triple tap and hold will not until they make this a special white listed certified DH.
The switches still turn the lights on and off without the internet, just not automation unless it’s a white listed device which the WD and WS-100 are not yet.
Yes, the device handlers will send a button 7 event (single tap up) even if the HomeSeer switches are on. This was added a while back per suggestion from @partytime-excellent, although I haven’t heard if this functionality ended up working for him.
Hey Darwin - I just wanted to confirm that I did get this working. Sorry I never came back to the thread! Thanks again for adding button 7 & 8. I use a single tap on these switches to toggle Hue bulbs on a completely different circuit. Now it works to do, regardless of the on/off state of the switch when I press it.
I have one of these switches that was working properly with double-tap, hold, triple-tap, etc. It’s stopped working. Anyone know how I can restore that functionality? In the smart app, tapping configure only makes it blink. The switch says it’s on firmware 5.17 is there a new or better handler for this?