I have some Z-Wave devices that I have Z-Wave parameter specifications for, and I want to be able to edit the Z-Wave parameters of these devices. For example, I have purchased some Cooper Aspire RF9540-N dimmers, and want to be able to edit the dimmer ramp rate. From the documentation I know that the ramp rate is controlled by parameter 7. However, I don’t know of a way that I can edit the value of parameter 7 for this device using SmartThings.
Of course it’s not reasonable to expect SmartThings to have device types for all the available Z-Wave devices, and to have interfaces for each of them to let you change the various custom settings for each device.
What I would like to see is a generic way to be able to set the Z-Wave parameters of any Z-Wave device. For example, I would like to be able to send a command to the device to set parameter 7 to a value of 0. Then, I would like to be able to query the device to ask it what the value of parameter 7 is, just to confirm that the setting was properly saved. If this feature could be available generically for all devices, we could change the Z-Wave parameters ourselves, even for devices that SmartThings hasn’t had time to test/implement.
I think this Z-Wave parameter editor would be best not in the SmartThings phone app, but perhaps in the developer tools. Then, this would only be available to people looking to get deeper into the configuration of their devices.
Or is there already a way to set these parameters that I’m missing?
For reference, my Cooper Aspire RF9540-N switches have the same parameter set as the section labeled “RF9534, RF9534-N, RF9535-N, RF9536, RF9536-N, and RF9537-N Dimmers” in the documentation at
http://www.cooperindustries.com/content/dam/public/wiringdevices/products/documents/technical_specifications/advancedtechinfo_V2.pdf