picked up a zooz ZSE18 motion sensor for the garage. i’m having a heck of a time setting up (what should be) a simple automation to turn on the lights. i’ve tried a device trigger, template, blueprint, all going nowhere. the action works, so it’s somewhere in the trigger. i’ve enabled BASIC SET reports, which folks said is (or was) required. my latest attempt is below. according to zooz docs, 255 should be the motion detected value. any help is appreciated. i’m a newbie, so i’m not sure how to watch the data coming from the sensor.
alias: Turn on garage lights
description: ‘’
trigger:
Assuming you are using Z-Wave JS, Basic CC sensors are usually not exposed. If you have one, it would be a number entity disabled by default.
There shouldn’t be any reason to enable Basic Set for this device. The only config setting I see related to Basic Set is to enable it for Group 2 associations, which would be used to trigger something like another z-wave light switch without using a hub. If your garage switches are also z-wave, you could connect them together this way. It does require zwavejs2mqtt.
I have one of those working successfully on battery but I am using an automation without a template… I did not modify any of the default settings on the sensor.
I modified mine for you to try. I initially set my automation up with the UI.
alias: Turn on garage lights
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.motion_and_vibration_sensor_home_security_motion_detection
id: Basement Papillon
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
condition: []
action:
- service: switch.turn_on
target:
entity_id: switch.garage_lights
mode: single
this is so strange. i agree, it should be a simple binary ‘on’, but when that didn’t work i started trying other ideas. i reset all of the device variables to default, and i copied Prodigyplace automation, and i still get nothing. the sensor seems to be working, at least in some sense, as the battery level is dropping in the UI. sensor is sitting in front of me triggering nada.
z2m has a log window accessible from the side panel (bug looking icon). You can watch that and see if any Home Security Motion value update messages are shown. If they are, that means there’s some issue between HA and z2m. If no such messages, it means the device is not reporting anything.
so the problem seems to be related to the sensor is sleeping all of the time. if i pull the battery and re-insert, then it wakes up and i can see the sensor value update in z2m. similarly, if i connect it to usb power it responds. still not getting the entire automation to fire though …
finicky, and it’s chewing through battery like crazy even though i’ve got it plugged into usb. still can’t get it to fire the action even though zwave messages are coming through in the debugger. think i might send it back and try another.
y=You initially need to choose whether to run off batteries or USB before including into the network. If it is running on battery when included it still behaves as a battery device when plugged in to USB.
Is it possible it was plugged in to USB when first included? I would expect it could run through batteries of the power source was changed afterward. I am not sure how long my batteries lasted but I just replaced the original ones at 20% because i think it was missing some motion when dark.
I have the wakeup time set to the default of 1440 seconds. Setting that too low would reduce battery life.
it was on battery when included. i’ve left the wakeup time at 30 sec for now, but since it’s not working, it doesn’t really matter. i can’t wait minutes for the lights to come on when i enter a dark room full of sharp objects.
Mine is running firmware 2.1 according to z2m. Their support site says it cannot be upgraded to that OTA. If yours is older perhaps Zooz support can assist with an exchange.
i have the zse18 and it’s running v1.3. not sure what the latest firmware version is. can’t seem to find much info on the zse18 on their website.
this is a simple one dimensional sensor and it should be plug-n-play. that it’s not seems like a pretty big red flag, either for home assistant, z2m, or zooz, or all three.
Sorry I have one of them too. I showed the wrong sensor.My ZSE18 is also v 1.3.
It is a motion & vibration sensor. I disabled the viration sensing since I do not need that & to preserve battery life. The wakeup interval is the default 43200 seconds.I have set the Trigger interval slightly higher than default to 30 seconds. I have considered disabling the LED to further preserve battery life.
sure, but i can’t get anything to work, so i don’t care about battery life at this point. i have a couple other sensors arriving from amazon in the next couple days, so i can see if it’s specific to this sensor, or a larger problem with z2m or other. i’ve tried just about everything i can think of, but nothing works.
