Nodon Octan Remote (How to)

[gcoupe (Geoff Coupe)]

I’m using the QT OpenZWave beta + Mosquitto add-ons, but they don’t seem to create entities that will work in these automations. For the entities I get:

sensor.crc_3_6_0x_soft_remote_basic
sensor.crc_3_6_0x_soft_remote_basic_duration
sensor.crc_3_6_0x_soft_remote_basic_target
sensor.crc_3_6_0x_soft_remote_battery_level

I realise that the battery level sensor is not relevant for this automation, but none of the others will work either. I’m seeing the scene_id in the OpenZWave log (10, 20, 30, 40 for the buttons 1, 2, 3, 4 respectively), but it doesn’t seem to be associated with any of the known entities.

Does anyone have any idea on what I’m doing wrong? Thanks.

[macfly92 (Mac_Fly)]

You need to switch your node configuration from Central Scene to Scene Activation :

@ibennani

Now you have to change the mode to Scene Activation (from Central Scene). Select your node from the list. In my case I chose “my_switch (Node:14 Complete)”. Near the bottom of this page, look for the heading “Node config options”. Here, click on the “Config value” and select “3: Scene mode”. Now a new entry appears just below. This new entry’s name is “Config value” and it’s initial value is “Central scene”. Change this to “Scene activation”.

[gcoupe (Geoff Coupe)]

I already did change to Scene Activation - no difference.

[macfly92 (Mac_Fly)]

When you do this, It do not create any additional entities but trigger ozw.scene_activated events.

[gcoupe (Geoff Coupe)]

OK, thanks, I’ll keep trying this. I’m new to HA (been using Domoticz for years), and still finding (groping) my way around…

I am seeing the scene_id events in the ozw log, but not clear how to connect these up with scenes in HA…

[macfly92 (Mac_Fly)]

I’m using NodeRed to manage my automation but if you use HA automation it must look something like this (based from exemple seen before) :

- alias: Bryter Toalett Overetasjen På
  trigger:
    platform: event
    event_type: ozw.scene_activated
    event_data:
      entity_id: zwave.bryter_toalett_overetasje
      scene_id: 10
  action:
    - service: light.turn_on
      entity_id: light.dimmer_toalett_overetasje_level

[gcoupe (Geoff Coupe)]

Well, I tried something like that:

alias: Button 1 pressed
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: zwave.scene_activated
    event_data:
      entity_id: sensor.crc_3_6_0x_soft_remote_battery_level
      scene_id: 10
condition: []
action:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: fffa7d1113c111eba1553948e862da35
    entity_id: switch.fgwpe_f_wall_plug_switch_2
    domain: switch
mode: single

Looking at that code, a couple of things now strike me.

1. I used zwave.scene_activated as the event type - but is this for the older zwave integration? I’m using the OpenZwave (Beta) + MQTT - so is there another id namespace that I should be using?
2. I tried all the entity ids for the remote, with no difference - nothing worked.

[macfly92 (Mac_Fly)]

You’re right, your problem is the event_type.
In the “Old” Zwave integration, it trigger zwave.scene_activated but the “new” one trigger ozw.scene_activated.
I’m not sure about the event_data/entity_id … but battery entity seem strange.

[gcoupe (Geoff Coupe)]

Thanks again. I’ll play around with this further…

[macfly92 (Mac_Fly)]

I think it must be something like this :

      event_data:
        node_id: 38
        scene_id: 2

[gcoupe (Geoff Coupe)]

It’s very odd…
Button 1 on the remote (node_id: 46) sends a scene_id of 10, while button 3 sends a scene_id of 30.

So I have two automations set up:

alias: Button 1 pressed
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: ozw.scene_activated
    event_data:
      node_id: 46
      scene_id: 1
condition: []
action:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: fffa7d1113c111eba1553948e862da35
    entity_id: switch.fgwpe_f_wall_plug_switch_2
    domain: switch
mode: single

alias: Button 3 pressed
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: ozw.scene_activated
    event_data:
      node_id: 46
      scene_id: 30
condition: []
action:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: fffa7d1113c111eba1553948e862da35
    entity_id: switch.fgwpe_f_wall_plug_switch_2
    domain: switch
mode: single

Now, I would have expected the Button 1 automation to have a scene_id of 10 (since that is what I see in the ozw log), yet it has to be set to 1 as shown for the button press to work.

And I’ve tried different values for the Button 3 automation, e.g. 2, 3, ‘30’, 30, but nothing seems to work when I press button 3…

So I’m stumped again…

[macfly92 (Mac_Fly)]

Try with scene_value_id, for button 1 :

    event_data:
      node_id: 46
      scene_value_id : 10

[gcoupe (Geoff Coupe)]

Yay! That works using scene_value_id instead of scene_id with 10 for Button 1 and 30 for Button 3. Thank you!

[macfly92 (Mac_Fly)]

I’m new to Home Assistant also so happy to have helped