Hey folks, new to HA and trying to understand the very basics of configuration. Seems like various things have changed in the last few versions and searching the forum seems to give conflicting info. I’m using the hassbian image.
My main reason for using HA is to get the following to work: Alexa–>EmulatedHue–>Zwave so, quite a few things need to work.
After I finally just got the image working, The system can see and control the one Zwave device I have but I can’t tell how to identify/reference it.
In other words, the UI config shows a device called “GE 14294 In-Wall Smart Dimmer Level (light)” it’s a brand new zwaveplus dimmer. So, how can I give this device a friendly name and start using it in emulated hue etc.?
It’s cool that HA discovered this device, but did it then register it somewhere and give it a name beyond what shows in the configuration UI? Where do I find that name or id# or whatever? Not even sure what I’m looking for. I would think it should have a unique device ID of some kind. Where to find that?
I’m looking at the release notes for 0.39 here:
There are sections on “customize” and “zwave”, since both of these have changed, I can’t tell what I can learn from all of the example configs online, while they are an incredible resource, they’re all wrong now that .39 has changed the syntax right?
Anyway those two sections of the release notes show something like this:
homeassistant:
customize:
light.kitchen:
hidden: true
customize_domain:
light:
icon: mdi:home
customize_glob:
"light.kitchen_*":
icon: mid:description
zwave:
device_config:
light.kitchen:
ignored: true
device_config_domain:
light:
polling_intensity: 2
device_config_glob:
"light.kitchen_*":
polling_intensity: 0
There’s this thing called “light.kitchen” - but that seems to be listed both in the customize and zwave sections but not defined anywhere. I would have thought somewhere I would define light.kitchen = longuniqueZwaveIDformydimmer then later refer to it.