Virtual/Seperate Switch for Monoprice Dual Relay

gilee_8 · November 25, 2015, 7:30pm

Hello everyone, Happy Thanksgiving!
I am very new to Smartthings, and installed multiple monoprice Dual Relay ON/OFF Switch.
But in most cases like smartTiles, or Routines / Smart Home Monitors, I cannot have access to the 2nd Switch (of the DUAL Relay)
I been doing alot of research here in the forum, but cannot really find a solid answer or get anything to work.
I tried the simulated Switch, the Big Switch SmartApp, I cannot get them connect to the Dual Relay individual physical switch.
I also read alot regarding the virtual tiles, but I have no idea what it is, and how to set it up.

Can anyone point me to a direction, I am a newbie to this, so I will need more details step by step.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much & Happy Thanksgiving!

Navat604 · November 25, 2015, 8:30pm

Here’s a post about that dual relay. I believe the smartapps is near the bottom of the post.

erocm1231:

I don’t have this relay, so I can’t tell for certain, but I don’t see how it is showing status updates when the physical switch is toggled. My friend has this switch and I was looking at his logs today. It is very similar to the Philio PAN04 in that when the physical switch is flipped, the relay sends a SwitchBinaryReport event. This event does not specify which physical switch is flipped. My device type for the Philio, when it receives a SwitchBinaryReport, requests for the switch to send it an updated status using the COMMAND_CLASS_MULTI_CHANNEL_V3 command class. The original SmartApp for the Enerwave would fix this problem by requesting a refresh every minute or so to update the status of both switches. That is why @CDJ is seeing all those null object errors in his logs. The SmartApp…

gilee_8 · November 25, 2015, 9:16pm

Thank you Navat604.
I read through this post couple times, and will there be other place I can obtain step by step details?

Navat604 · November 25, 2015, 9:41pm

I am my phone so it’s a little hard to search for the step for virtual switch but I think @JDRoberts has a really nice write up FAQ on virtual switch. I will post the steps when I get a chance on my laptop unless someone here can point you to the right direction first.

JDRoberts · November 25, 2015, 9:44pm

@mattjfrank wrote the FAQ on creating virtual switches after I asked the question. Here’s that link:

FAQ: Creating a virtual Device

erocm1231 · November 25, 2015, 10:06pm

I’m not sure which device type and smartapp that you grabbed, but @justintime made an adaptation of Philio Dual Relay device type that should work extremely well. It supports “instant” status updates when the switches are physically flipped.

https://github.com/justintime/SmartThings-Monoprice-11990/blob/master/monoprice-11990.groovy

Here is the SmartApp that @Navat604 mentioned. The original SmartApp did a type of polling every 30 or so seconds which wasn’t necessary with the device type above so I created a version that doesn’t poll.

github.com

erocm123/SmartThingsPublic/blob/master/smartapps/erocm123/dual-relay-adapter.src/dual-relay-adapter.groovy

/**
 *  Dual Relay Adapter (i.e. Enerwave ZWN-RSM2 Adapter, Monoprice Dual Relay, Philio PAN04)
 *
 *  Copyright 2016 Eric Maycock (erocm123)
 * 
 *  Special thanks to Joel Tamkin for the bulk of this code. Special thanks to Justin Ellison for other additions and "cleanups"
 * 
 *  2016-01-13: erocm123 - Added "on/offPhysical()" code (as suggested by Justin Ellison) to prevent the app from turning lights on/off when quickly flicking switch.
 *                         Must be using the "Simulated Switch" device type for this to work right.
 *  2015-10-29: erocm123 - I removed the scheduled refreshes for my Philio PAN04 as it supports instant status updates with my custom device type
 *
 *  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.
 *

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So, if you use the instructions referenced by @JDRoberts to create two virtual ON/OFF Button Tiles and then use the referenced SmartApp to associate the two virtual switches with the Monoprice Switch 1 and 2, you should be able to accomplish what you are trying.

justintime · November 25, 2015, 10:11pm

@gilee_8 The README file with my custom device type will explain things, step by step, including setting up the virtual switches: https://github.com/justintime/SmartThings-Monoprice-11990

It’s been working flawlessly for me since I wrote it, let me know how you make out with it.

gilee_8 · November 28, 2015, 3:22pm

Thank you so much Justintime!
It works flawlessly! Greatly Appreciated!
Happy Thanksgiving!

gilee_8 · November 28, 2015, 3:23pm

Thank you so much Eric Maycock! Your info plus the link from Justintime, really clear and step by step!
Thank you & Happy Thanksgiving!

erocm1231 · November 28, 2015, 10:11pm

Glad I could help.

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