ZWaveJS2MQTT - FotrezZ MIMOLite Configuration

Configuration Z-Wave
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I’m migrating to ZWaveJS2MQTT from Hubitat and figured I’d document each device that required a few tweaks.

  • Home Assistant: 2021.10.3
  • Z-Wave JS to MQTT: 0.27.0

When the MIMOLite first gets added it can be controlled by the binary sensor doesn’t update when the contact is opened/closed. This can be fixed by configuring association groups:

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Specifically adding the Binary Sensor report group association to the controller, NodeID_1 in my case, results in contact state changes being immediately reported.

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If you think that’s something that should be enabled by default, you could submit a Bug Report to node-zwave-js and make a request, or you could even submit a PR yourself. The device configuration file controls which association groups the controller will assign automatically.

The official device handler from Fortrezz does automatically configure groups 2, 3 and 4. So it seems reasonable that Z-Wave JS could as well.

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Oh nice! I’ll go get that PR sent, I’m new to ZWaveJS and didn’t realize getting those groups setup was part of the controller config.

edit: https://github.com/zwave-js/node-zwave-js/pull/3512

Looks like I need to tweak the commit message

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fix(config): mark 'Binary ... MIMOLite should do it.