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Offline d.kiran

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Linear WD500Z and WT00Z-1 group
« on: May 29, 2016, 09:26:36 pm »
I thought, this was on the list of supported devices. I bought these two to replace existing 3-way switches. I have wired them and paired them. The main/master seems to be working well.

I am not sure how to add them to a group so that the slave switch can control the master. Do we have groups support. Is there a way we can accomplish this ?

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Re: Linear WD500Z and WT00Z-1 group
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2016, 07:15:19 am »
@ d.kiran,

Groups are not support yet, but you can still control them using Rules.

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Re: Linear WD500Z and WT00Z-1 group
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2016, 05:20:46 pm »
I have a bunch of the WD500Zs working properly in Scenes, Rules, and individually. One thing I have noted is that they do not seem to notify the Almond when they are manually pressed. Ex: Switch is off, you turn it on with app/rule/whatever, it will turn on. You MANUALLY press the switch to turn it off... Almond will not know it is off. This seems to be with the switches themselves. I have contacted Linear (a couple times) asking about this and gotten no response. Securifi went to a lot of effort looking into this with me, we were even checking the Z-Wave logs, but it shows no messages come in with manual presses.
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Re: Linear WD500Z and WT00Z-1 group
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2016, 12:40:07 am »
@fillibar - Apparently this is a Linear thing. If you double tap the switch, it then sends the status update. If I double tap, I see the status update.

Apparently there is a way to poll the device, but I can't see a way of doing that from the WS API.

@Ashok, do you know of a way to poll the switch directly (not GetDeviceInfo which fetches the data from DeviceList.xml) from the WebSocket API ?

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Re: Linear WD500Z and WT00Z-1 group
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2016, 07:10:43 am »
@ d.kiran,


@Ashok, do you know of a way to poll the switch directly (not GetDeviceInfo which fetches the data from DeviceList.xml) from the WebSocket API ?

We are not doing any polling as long the device sends the input, we would receive it.

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Re: Linear WD500Z and WT00Z-1 group
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2016, 10:52:26 am »
@ d.kiran,

We are not doing any polling as long the device sends the input, we would receive it.

Hi Ashok. I know you're not doing any polling.

That is why my question was, is there a way in the WS API or the SDK to poll/get an updated status from the switch?

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Re: Linear WD500Z and WT00Z-1 group
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2016, 10:53:51 am »
Also, this might have been obvious to everyone, but you need a Aeon Minimote to associate the two switches together. Once they are associated, the minimote is no longer needed.

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Re: Linear WD500Z and WT00Z-1 group
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2018, 04:13:03 am »
@fillibar - Apparently this is a Linear thing. If you double tap the switch, it then sends the status update. If I double tap, I see the status update.

Thanks for sharing this. This works and would be a viable solution but the switch has another flaw. When you double tap up when off, it goes to some dimmer value between 30-60% but when you double tap down, it doesn't go all the way to 0%. It requires multiple double taps with a pause in between. I tried changing some parameters from the LCD UI but it fails.

I'm going to rip my wall switch out and stick an Almond Click there instead.

 

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