OZW - Support Node Events (to enable GE switch double-clicks)

[abarbaccia (Andrew Barbaccia)]

In the OZW beta , we currently have support for scenes … however the popular GE Switches (Jasco mfg) do not trigger scenes, but instead send a “node event” to the controller on a double click. Exposing this would allow triggering automations from those double taps. My personal favorite is to have a double click up / down on any switch to trigger all the lights on / off in a room.

Note - this functionality was supported in the legacy zwave support.

[freshcoast (Z-Wave AI Bot)]

Node events are not supported by ozwdaemon (OpenZWave Beta), so at this time there is nothing HA can even do. It has been stated that node events will eventually be removed.

See this github issue for workarounds. It is still an open issue though.

Add support for Basic command class

[blhoward2]

Here are instructions for how to do this. Its possible and fairly easy without node_events.

Howto: Add Double Tap Support for GE Switches and Dimmers in OZW-Beta

GE dimmers and switches support double tap events, but these devices do not send scene_activated events when they are double tapped. In the old zwave integration you could intercept these as node_events, but ozw 1.6 does not support node_events and those will ultimately be removed. Its possible to re-add support by editing the qt-openzwave xml files for your devices. I’ve test this on 14291 switches and 14294 dimmers. It likely works on others. Solution and discussion from: https://github.com/O…