zwavejs2mqtt issues
Posted: Monday 30 August 2021 11:17
All,
As many of you have seen by now, zwavejs2mqtt appears to be a solid alternative to OpenZwave. From my experience, it's been more stable and more functional than OpenZwave ever was.
Moroen and I developed a plugin that integrates zwavejs2mqtt into domoticz. A couple of other people have since adopted the plugin with typically positive results.
This plugin is only as good as the support it gets from the community. On first release, it supported devices that moroen and I had. On a whole, it was quite functional but obviously, devices will be missing that need to be added. Since then some more devices have been added with the help of @allesvanzelf and @IanDury which is great!
There are clearly more devices to be added. Currently, RGB devices are missing and some devices seem to report power readings differently from my power devices (Neo Coolcam plugs) so THIS IS WIP.
With this thread I am trying to accomplish 2 things:
1) centralise all discussions around any issues people may find
2) solicit help from other people out there in enhancing the plugin
Especially around the second item (HELP NEEDED), the plugin is only as good as the support it gets from the community. Since moroen and I cannot be around all the time, we need the help from other people to ensure that issues are resolved in a timely manner so people consider this to be a well maintained plugin. This plugin needs to be a solid substitution for OZW and it will only be that if as many people as possible try to contribute. I ahve already seen great contributions from @allesvanzelf and @IanDury so I am confident that we can achieve the goal of a well maintained plugin. Especially people with a little python knowledge are more than welcome but anyone whith a little practical plugin knowledge is more than welcome as well!
My expectation (and hope) is that there isn't a ton of work involved in adding the missing devices (since most changes should be done through the device mapping config file rather than python programming) so hopefully we'll get there quickly.
In case of any bugs, please raise a ticket on the plugin page on github with a full debug log (you can switch it on, on the plugin page) and, for missing devices and or devices with issues, the mqtt message log (either using moquitto_sub or using the supplied mqtt-snooper.py utility).
I hope that, together, we can make this a much better alternative to OZW.
Herman
As many of you have seen by now, zwavejs2mqtt appears to be a solid alternative to OpenZwave. From my experience, it's been more stable and more functional than OpenZwave ever was.
Moroen and I developed a plugin that integrates zwavejs2mqtt into domoticz. A couple of other people have since adopted the plugin with typically positive results.
This plugin is only as good as the support it gets from the community. On first release, it supported devices that moroen and I had. On a whole, it was quite functional but obviously, devices will be missing that need to be added. Since then some more devices have been added with the help of @allesvanzelf and @IanDury which is great!
There are clearly more devices to be added. Currently, RGB devices are missing and some devices seem to report power readings differently from my power devices (Neo Coolcam plugs) so THIS IS WIP.
With this thread I am trying to accomplish 2 things:
1) centralise all discussions around any issues people may find
2) solicit help from other people out there in enhancing the plugin
Especially around the second item (HELP NEEDED), the plugin is only as good as the support it gets from the community. Since moroen and I cannot be around all the time, we need the help from other people to ensure that issues are resolved in a timely manner so people consider this to be a well maintained plugin. This plugin needs to be a solid substitution for OZW and it will only be that if as many people as possible try to contribute. I ahve already seen great contributions from @allesvanzelf and @IanDury so I am confident that we can achieve the goal of a well maintained plugin. Especially people with a little python knowledge are more than welcome but anyone whith a little practical plugin knowledge is more than welcome as well!
My expectation (and hope) is that there isn't a ton of work involved in adding the missing devices (since most changes should be done through the device mapping config file rather than python programming) so hopefully we'll get there quickly.
In case of any bugs, please raise a ticket on the plugin page on github with a full debug log (you can switch it on, on the plugin page) and, for missing devices and or devices with issues, the mqtt message log (either using moquitto_sub or using the supplied mqtt-snooper.py utility).
I hope that, together, we can make this a much better alternative to OZW.
Herman