Help trigger automation on Z-Wave switch paddle press

[psyko_chewbacca]

Hi,

I have an Inovelli Black On/Off switch I would like to monitor paddle presses to trigger automations (Toggle smart plug on/off on switch paddle press).
I can’t seem to find any documentation/example on how to monitor for specifc node events and use the data as automation trigger.

I am using the embedded Z-Wave integration in HA (OZW 1.4).

I can see paddle presses in OZW’s node journal:

2020-12-29 17:57:36.439 Info, Node018, Received SwitchBinary report from node 18: level=On
2020-12-29 17:57:36.439 Detail, Node018, Refreshed Value: old value=false, new value=true, type=bool
2020-12-29 17:57:36.439 Detail, Node018, Changes to this value are not verified
2020-12-29 17:57:36.439 Detail, Node018, Notification: ValueChanged
2020-12-29 17:57:37.339 Detail, Node018, Received: 0x01, 0x09, 0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x12, 0x03, 0x25, 0x03, 0x00, 0xc5
2020-12-29 17:57:37.339 Detail,
2020-12-29 17:57:37.339 Info, Node018, Received SwitchBinary report from node 18: level=Off
2020-12-29 17:57:37.339 Detail, Node018, Refreshed Value: old value=true, new value=false, type=bool
2020-12-29 17:57:37.339 Detail, Node018, Changes to this value are not verified
2020-12-29 17:57:37.339 Detail, Node018, Notification: ValueChanged
2020-12-29 17:57:38.140 Detail, Node018, Received: 0x01, 0x09, 0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x12, 0x03, 0x25, 0x03, 0x00, 0xc5
2020-12-29 17:57:38.140 Detail,
2020-12-29 17:57:38.140 Info, Node018, Received SwitchBinary report from node 18: level=Off
2020-12-29 17:57:38.140 Detail, Node018, Refreshed Value: old value=false, new value=false, type=bool
2020-12-29 17:57:38.141 Detail, Node018, Changes to this value are not verified
2020-12-29 17:57:38.141 Detail, Node018, Notification: ValueChanged

I just don’t know how to translate this data to be used in automations.
Event monitoring shows nothing when monitoring zwave.node_event

Surely there is a way to fetch these events in HA!

Thanks.

[RickKramer (Rick Kramer - Jansen)]

Is there a binary sensor in your HA instance for this device? Then you could use that in the automation, as it goes from Off to On. Or set up a group association where the device directly talks to the nodes you want to manage (so it even works when your HA is offline), if supported by your device.

[psyko_chewbacca]

Unfortunately, I need to bind to paddle press events to get “turn off” events even when the switch reported state is already off for example.

Smart plug isn’t Z-Wave so group association is no-go here.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[RickKramer (Rick Kramer - Jansen)]

Maybe this thread has some answers for you?

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[psyko_chewbacca]

I want to monitor individual paddle presses. Scene are something else and involves a paddle press combination to trigger.

Also, Inovelli black series don’t have scene support.

I migrated to OZW 1.6 integration, see if I can get it to work since it uses MQTT to interface between OZW and HA.