re: Not-so-official Open Source Home Automation Thread

Can anybody give me some guidance with this? I bought the same USB stick and door tripper as the OP. I plug the controller into my PC and I see nothing. I *think* i linked the controller with the device, but I'm clueless on what to do next. I downloaded Domoticz but it doesn't see anything, either. What am I doing wrong?

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Can anybody give me some guidance with this? I bought the same USB stick and door tripper as the OP. I plug the controller into my PC and I see nothing. I *think* i linked the controller with the device, but I'm clueless on what to do next. I downloaded Domoticz but it doesn't see anything, either. What am I doing wrong?

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Do you have the drivers installed? if not here is the link: support page

I run HomeGenie. If you can't get Domoticz to find your z-wave stick after driver install, try HomeGenie. Then look at this page, guide, and see if it sees your USB stick.

CAD
I'm too new to call it useless or even a must have. I'm looking at possibilities right now and I have it triggering a dummy switch to tell the system if my wife or I are at home. I can then trigger or suppress events based on those switches or even send notifications if that status changes. Could be useful when the kids start going out on their own. Or even automatically adjusting the a/c based on if both of us are home or just one of us. So far, it has worked relatively flawlessly and I have it squashed down to about 100m. The only time it didn't update was when I closed out all my apps and ifttt wasn't monitoring my location anymore.

Inigo
What OS are you running? Windows should show up as a COM port and it should only show the com port that is available. If it's Linux, it may show up as a USB device or an AMA. You would have to select whichever device your machine has assigned to the z-stick. It was USB for me. Either way, once you add the hardware, you should see a "Setup" button for the Zwave device in the list. Clicking that will bring up the Zwave Node screen. Clicking the Management pull down at the top of the list and selecting "Include Node" will put the stick into Inclusion Mode. Then just pull the battery in the door tripper for 5 seconds and when you put it back in, it should add the node.

Found something that could be very interesting tonight. A bunch of people are basically hacking the Amazon dash buttons to do everything from tracking their kids poops to ordering pizza. If I can find a way to integrate it into Domoticz, I might just have to stock up. Hard to beat $5 for an internet connected button.

don't know. I don't run Kodi. Are you trying to get either Domo or HG to control Kodi away from the house?

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CAD
I'm too new to call it useless or even a must have. I'm looking at possibilities right now and I have it triggering a dummy switch to tell the system if my wife or I are at home. I can then trigger or suppress events based on those switches or even send notifications if that status changes. Could be useful when the kids start going out on their own. Or even automatically adjusting the a/c based on if both of us are home or just one of us. So far, it has worked relatively flawlessly and I have it squashed down to about 100m. The only time it didn't update was when I closed out all my apps and ifttt wasn't monitoring my location anymore.

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yeah my experience is limited to wink's implementation..which of course is suspect at best.

i want it to work because i have lots of use cases but when i set it to 'email me' when the event fires and i wake up to 15 emails in my inbox i aint using it to automate shite.

i would uninstall current drivers through device manager and then try to reinstall

don't know if that would fix.

by the way, which drivers did you download? the SiLabs ones or the UZB ones? just trying to rule things out.

Uninstalled drivers and reinstalled the ones from the website. Still not working.

Device USB\VID_10C4&PID_EA60\0001 could not be migrated.

Last Device Instance Id: USB\VID_05AC&PID_12A8\74cf866876408ef8445d7e693fcdaf51a41eef76
Class Guid: {EEC5AD98-8080-425F-922A-DABF3DE3F69A}
Location Path: PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1400)#USBROOT(0)#USB(11)
Migration Rank: 0xF000FFFFFFFF0023
Present: false
Status: 0xC0000719

Device USB\VID_10C4&PID_EA60\0001 was configured.

Driver Name: null
Class Guid: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
Driver Date:
Driver Version:
Driver Provider:
Driver Section:
Driver Rank: 0x0
Matching Device Id:
Outranked Drivers:
Device Updated: false
Parent Device: USB\ROOT_HUB30\4&1bbb1078&0&0

Driver Management has concluded the process to add Service silabenm for Device Instance ID USB\VID_10C4&PID_EA60\0001 with the following status: 0.

Driver Management has concluded the process to add Service silabser for Device Instance ID USB\VID_10C4&PID_EA60\0001 with the following status: 0.

Driver Management concluded the process to install driver slabvcp.inf_amd64_a623214392a3a1b9\slabvcp.inf for Device Instance ID USB\VID_10C4&PID_EA60\0001 with the following status: 0x0.

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and you have the black usb stick and not the white one?

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Correct

Inigo, were you able to get your usb stick working? did you try it in another pc?