Z-wave - new deployment (Zwave.me UZB, FGMS001, TZ88E)
Posted: Sunday 21 December 2014 0:39
Hi all,
I thought I would share my very early experience of setting up a z-wave network which I am implementing mainly to put a failsafe on my domestic (sewage) pumping station so if the power usage remains high (for more than 3 minutes) it switches off to save damage to the pumps (these cost about £800 each):
The USB controller
1 x zwave.me ZME_UZB1 - £25 from Vesternet
The devices
1 x Fibaro FGMS001 - Motion Sensor/Temperature/Lux - £52 each (general use case)
2 x TZ88E - Power switch with energy usage reporting - £38 each (1 will be used for pump control use case)
1 x Fibaro Binary Sensor (not yet integrated as I need 12v power) - £36 each (later use case)
I have an existing Domoticz setup with RFXCom (Oregon, Owl, HomeEasy) but I opted for a new virtual machine (I am running on a small HP server with VMware ESXi) with a clean Ubuntu installation, Open Zwave and Domoticz V2.2171
The tiny zwave.me "UZB" device shows up OK:
I had installed Domoticz previously as follows:
Then today I plugged in the UZB and installed Open-Zwave:
It worked - as some people have pointed out the FGMS001 needs to be woken up several times to get temperature and lux levels and certainly worth switching off the LEDs via the configuration.
The Fibaro Motion sensor - I am a bit confused why the PIR sends two messages for motion - one with a level of 100%:
The two TZ88E devices - oddly the energy classes claim it is an CM119/113/160:
It would be really nice if Domoticz could combine the messages into a single graphic in the portal but it's fine for now.
I need to play around some more but wanted to share this with the forum for your information.
To do list:
- Write the script to power cycle the pumps
- Put the UZB on a USB extension cable to improve signal
- Wire up the binary sensor and connect up to an infrared beam
- Migrate my other devices from my existing Domoticz installation (I think I better start again rather than restore the database since the versions are steps apart).
- Consider investing in more z-wave if this proves successful…
(Edit: For more info on the TZ88E - I just saw http://domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2992)
Happy Christmas!
Ian
I thought I would share my very early experience of setting up a z-wave network which I am implementing mainly to put a failsafe on my domestic (sewage) pumping station so if the power usage remains high (for more than 3 minutes) it switches off to save damage to the pumps (these cost about £800 each):
The USB controller
1 x zwave.me ZME_UZB1 - £25 from Vesternet
The devices
1 x Fibaro FGMS001 - Motion Sensor/Temperature/Lux - £52 each (general use case)
2 x TZ88E - Power switch with energy usage reporting - £38 each (1 will be used for pump control use case)
1 x Fibaro Binary Sensor (not yet integrated as I need 12v power) - £36 each (later use case)
I have an existing Domoticz setup with RFXCom (Oregon, Owl, HomeEasy) but I opted for a new virtual machine (I am running on a small HP server with VMware ESXi) with a clean Ubuntu installation, Open Zwave and Domoticz V2.2171
The tiny zwave.me "UZB" device shows up OK:
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Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0658:0200 Sigma Designs, Inc. Code: Select all
svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/domoticz/code/trunk/ domoticz
cd domoticz
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .
make
./domoticz
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svn co http://open-zwave.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ open-zwave-read-only
apt-get install libudev-dev
cd open-zwave-read-only/
make
./updatedomo # necessary since I already had it installed from some weeks back
nohup ./domoticz > /dev/null 2>&1 &The Fibaro Motion sensor - I am a bit confused why the PIR sends two messages for motion - one with a level of 100%:
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To do list:
- Write the script to power cycle the pumps
- Put the UZB on a USB extension cable to improve signal
- Wire up the binary sensor and connect up to an infrared beam
- Migrate my other devices from my existing Domoticz installation (I think I better start again rather than restore the database since the versions are steps apart).
- Consider investing in more z-wave if this proves successful…
(Edit: For more info on the TZ88E - I just saw http://domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2992)
Happy Christmas!
Ian
