Domoticz

Hi all!
First, I am a newbie in this field so please excuse me if I'm posting this in the wrong end of the Internet.

I'm running Domoticz on a RPi using an Aoetec Z-stick gen 5 as controller for Zwave nodes. I have a Qubino Flush RBGW dimmer plus (ZMNHWD1) for controlling a RGBW LED strip.

I understand that Domoticz uses Open-Zwave to communicate with the Z-stick and this is probably a Open-zwave problem, but I find no forum for open-zwave except for developers, and that's way over my head, so please foregive me if I'm in the wrong place, but I could use some help here.

If I understand it right there is an XML-file that controls the config menu that shows up for the dimmer in Domoticz. It's just that the parameters in the XML file for the ZMNHWD1 doesn'nt match the configuration parameters stated in the extended user manual from Qubino.
In the Qubino manual parameter 1-4 configures the corresponding channel (RGBW) with a value 1 to 10. This value configures input switch type and "mode type" for one channel .
In the XML file parameter 1 is a general configuration of "input switch type" with only two different values. Parameter 2 is "mode type" with three different values, and so on.

From what I can see the config XML doesn't match the specification for the dimmer, but I'm new to this. Can someone please have a look and see what's going on? The XML seems to be 2 years old, so maybe it's for an earlier version of the ZMNHWD1 dimmer and have never been updated?

XML-file on Github:
https://github.com/OpenZWave/open-zwave ... MNHWD1.xml

Qubino extended manual. (see section 14)
https://products.z-wavealliance.org/Pro ... ng_2.2.pdf
(EDIT: changes link to latest version of manual)

I noticed this also and posted on the openzwave google groups site a couplw of weeks ago, asking how to setup a .xml file for the new hardware.
I am still awaiting a reply on this.

stuiow wrote: ↑Thursday 13 December 2018 19:44 I noticed this also and posted on the openzwave google groups site a couplw of weeks ago, asking how to setup a .xml file for the new hardware.
I am still awaiting a reply on this.

Great! Please post if you get any response.

Searching the net, i have found a xml from https://products.z-wavealliance.org/products/2174

Lot more information in this one compared to the one we have within openzwave.
I do believe it will need modifying/cleaning up before we can submit it to openzwave for release though.

I will look at it next week.

Found this documentation on how the "manufacturer_specific.xml" file works.
https://github.com/OpenZWave/open-zwave ... ng-Devices

I have made modifications according to the Qubino manual and will test it this weekend.

Just for reference I have found the V1.1 of the user manual and the .XML file corresponds to the section "configuration parameters" in that manual, so it seems that there has been an update of the dimmer, and that has never been handled in the Openzwave library.

https://www.vesternet.com/mwdownloads/d ... k/id/1715/

Created a .XML file according to the Extended User manual v2.2 and tested on my dimmer. It didn't work as expected so I believe my dimmer is an earlier version and the current .XML is correct for it.

I enclose the .XML file if you would like to test it. Here is how to:

Copy .xml file to /home/pi/domoticz/Config/qubino or wherever your Domiticz is installed
Stop Domoticz service: sudo service domoticz.sh stop
Delete file house configuration file zwcfg_0xe.......xml in /home/pi/domoticz/Config/
Restart your RPi.