Remotec ZRC-90

eric182 · January 18, 2020, 7:49pm

Has anybody figured out how to make the Remotec ZRC-90 Work in the new app? I tried asking in this thread with no luck.

[RELEASE] Remotec ZRC-90 Scene Master - Button Device Supporting 24 Unique Button Commands (see post 177 for 2021 app version) Community Created Device Types

Remotec ZRC-90 Scene Master - Button Device Supporting 24 Unique Button Commands This is a very small button device that has a contemporary look and is wall mountable. With the included mounting bracket you can pull it off of the wall and use it like a remote. [image] Button Commands: Buttons on this device support 3 modes. Pressed, held, and double pressed. When using the device in SmartApps such as Rule Machine, you would use the functionality of button 1 - 8 like normal. Configure triggers on Button 1 pushed, and Button 1 held, etc. But then you can also configure buttons 9 - 16 in Rule Machine as follows: Physical Button Double Pressed & Resulting Button Number 1 = 9 2 = 10 3 = 11 4 = 12 5 = 13 6 = 14 7 = 15 8 = 16 Preferences: [image] Multiple “held” events on botton…

djcesar · August 9, 2020, 1:32am

Did you find any way to install?

shankman · January 8, 2021, 11:41am

Hi @eric182 how I got this to work, but not natively in the app. It was using the advice in the post you mentioned.

Assumed knowledge: install custom DH in the IDE , can use web core and can install virtual switches.

I am by no means an expert in any of them, but the forums has walk throughs on all (exactly what I did to get this to work )

First decide how you will control the buttons actions, do you want to create 24 virtual switches in ST so when you press the button, webcore maps the button press to one of those virtual switches (pressed, double pressed, held 8*3 gets the 24).

For example:

I use this approach because then I just build automations within ST for each virtual button. The mapping of the physical buttons to the number in webcore are also in the post you mentioned.

Another way would be to code in what you want your button to do within webcore - I didn’t go down this path.

I had two friends get the same remote with their ST setup, they chose the virtual switch path also. After the initial setup it works well. Truly I haven’t used all the buttons yet

There probably is a more efficient way to do the coding, but see below for my webcore code in case it helps.

Hope this helps in some shape or form.

Tristan_daCosta · February 9, 2021, 3:53pm

It looks like most people already know this, but I spent an hour trying to connect a new ZRC-90 remote using the NEW Smartthings app.

I’d added the custom device handler created by other community members here:

github.com

mwav3/smartthingscode/blob/master/devicetypes/mwav3/remotec-zrc-90-scene-master.src/remotec-zrc-90-scene-master.groovy

/**
 *  Remotec ZRC-90 Scene Master
 *
 *  Contains code from https://github.com/erocm123/SmartThingsPublic/blob/master/devicetypes/erocm123/remotec-zrc-90-scene-master.src/remotec-zrc-90-scene-master.groovy
 *
 *  Copyright 2020 Eric Maycock, Tim Grimley
 *
 *  This is an update from Tim Grimley of the original DTH made by Eric Maycock, who advised he no longer has the device but stated he was open to others
 *  assisting with an update.  Thank you Eric for all the work done to initially put this together!
 *
 *  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.
 *
 *  0.11 (01/12/2021) - Initial Release Old handler Updated to add compatibility to new Smart lighting app and webcore

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… but the remote wasn’t being discovered when adding devices in the way i normally would, using the ‘scan for devices’ method.

For anyone comes across this thread and is having the same issues, I managed to add the remote by adding by ‘Device Type’ and scrolling down and selecting “Generic Z-Wave Device”.

It appeared right away and have full control over all 8 buttons (24 iterations - press, hold, double press) from within the “Smart Lighting” SmartApp.

Apologies for those who think this is obvious… it wasn’t for me and I thought I was pretty clued up with this stuff

junrau · November 13, 2021, 5:23am

Does this mean you left the device type as “Generic Z-Wave Device” and can control the buttons, or after adding the device, you changed the device type to the Groovy DTH above?

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