[OBSOLETE] Z-Wave Tweaker

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I’d like to share a success story with Z-Wave Tweaker. Thank you David, it is really awesome!

My setup: I have two lights that I wanted to control with a separate switch. Both lights can be controlled by Fibaro Dimmer 2 modules. Switch is button powered Z-Wave.me ZME_WALLC-S. Neither of these devices by SmartThings natively so for Dimmer 2 I use device handler from David. For switch I use Device Handler made by AdamV.

First attempt to control lights was by Smart Lightning app. It was pretty easy to configure but lights reaction after switch presses were pretty slow and jitter pretty big: from 2 to about 30 seconds.

Second attempt is with Z-Wave associations. I had to read quite a lot to understand how it works.

Gotcha: switch is battery operated device. Easiest way to configure it is to enter management mode (press all buttons at once for about 5 seconds until green light starts blinking) and use 2nd button (top right). This way switch won’t get to sleep for 10 seconds.

It took me some time to find out that I had to hit scan param and association button first. Only after that Z-Wave Tweaker allowed me to set params.

In the end I have ended up with following configuration:

  • Parameter #12: [id:12, scaledConfigurationValue:1, size:1]. Even though manual says it is default my switch had value 2 there.
  • Parameter #14: [id:14, scaledConfigurationValue:1, size:1].
  • Association Group #3: [id:3, maxNodesSupported:10, multiChannel:true, name:Group B, nodes:[00, 03, 01]]. 03 is dimmer’s network id in my network.

Now my lights respond to button pushes under 1 second! And as a bonus I can dim my lights.

Finally a proof: https://youtu.be/5-jAyrgdUso

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