Thanks for watching. I am going to start moving on to more advanced topics, I wanted to make sure we had enough to get people up and running if they don't want to work with config files etc. I think we are almost there!

Thanks for watching, should have some more coming soon!

Thanks! More coming soon!

Thanks for watching Jared! I am working on more videos, should be out soon!

Hi Carlos, yes! Zwave uses a different frequency in Europe than it does in North America. You will need to make sure all your devices including the USB stick is meant for Europe! I have wasted a bunch of time in the past trying to get poorly labled devices working and the problem was just the frequency!

Hi Zohair, You could get a raspberry pi with a Aeotec z-wave stick amzn.to/2Plhx8o to handle the EU frequencies, and install the smartthings binding in openHAB to have them both talk to each other. This way all your devices could work together. Thanks for watching, don't forget to subscribe!

@@yoyoTechKnows Thanks a lot for the fast response. Sure I'll consider this solution.

If you want to use them with openHAB then yes, it's built into SmartThings and Wink.

yoyoTech thanks bill..

Nelson Vieira, based on your requirements, I'd recommend openHAB. The recent release of an official Google Home action for openHAB gives OH the edge for voice control (setup is super simple, too). Speaking of easy setup, since you already have a Raspberry Pi, I recommend looking into openhabian - it does the installation and initial setup for you and lets you start focusing on the actual automation system design quickly.

BK Hobby thank you for your suggestion! Currently playing with a Vera plus but will start setting up an OpenHab on the side.

I've thought about using DMX light control myself - but ended up going with a simpler solution, WS2812 LED strips driven by a NodeMCU with the awesome FastLED library, and controlled by MQTT/JSON. My openHAB sitemaps/rules select the different effects or colors to set the LED strips to, and I can use groups to set multiple strips at once (I used about 10 of them in door frames and in window sills, for a synchronized holiday lights effect last year).

Yes, you can. I have not used zigbee with openHAB before, but there should be no issues using both in one system. In fact I have even heard of people using 2 zwave dongles if you wanted too for testing etc! Thanks for watching! Don't forget to subscribe!

There is a "testing" version of zwave binding that supports the security protocol (not sure if it is S2?). With this I was able to get my locks up and running securely in openhab.

Update: Got the zwave controller. Installation was as simple as you stated! Now to pick up a zwave thing to play with.

Hi Kiril, check out my other videos, I have one using the rule engine that is a good simple place to start. More coming soon too! Thanks for watching!

This is the same thing I spoke about in the video. It's simply a matter of adding the new deviceID to the Zwave database so it knows how to identify it. If you update openHAB this device will most likely get updated quick. Let me know if u update and it still does not identify it.

I must confess I am a newbie! I just purchased my first Raspberry Pi two weeks ago and installed openHABian v1.4. I have done a lot of reading and watching videos to get myself up to speed. I have removed/reinstalled the Aeotec MultiSensor 6 several times. I still have the UNKNOWN DEVICE Z-Wave Node 3 (021F:0003:0083:3.92) (zwave:device:f9a63c2e:node3) message. If the ZW100-A is not in my installed database, how do I get it there? Remember your installing in this video the Aeotec MultiSensor 6 is the model ZW100! I have installed successfully the Z-Wave GE Smart Switch so I know that my procedures are working according to your video. Thanks.

Hello, thanks for watching! If all you want to control is ecobee and philips hue for now, openHAB will work with no additional hardware. If you want to control z-wave devices you would need to add a z-wave dongle to control them. openHAB can control wifi based devices like ecobee, sonos, lifx right out of the box. Philips Hue is zigbee, but it has a hub which turns it into wifi for hubs to controls. Once you have openHAB up and running you could control your lights, and thermostat from your ipad using openhab! Good luck, don't forget to subscribe!.

Hi toit! I switch back and forth between paper and HABmin, but if I had to choose to live with only one it would probably be HABmin. Take it slow, and don't be afraid to start clean, I find the ZWAVE network sometimes just needs time to fix itself as all the devices start talking. I use this geni.us/AAuj zwave controller and I have not had any issues. For the multiSensor, update option 5 "command to send" to "send basic set" and I usually set 2 "on time" to about 10 seconds. The device actually reports back in telling openhab once motion stops, I like it to report more and then handle things in openHAB. Let me know if that helps...... Good luck and thanks for watching!

Thank you for reaching out Bill, I appreciate it! My MS6 defaulted to "send basic set cc" for config parameter 5 and remains unchanged. I might be misinterpreting the send part, let me know as I couldn't find anything similar to the description. My config parameter 2 is labeled as "stay awake in battery mode", currently disabled, as the device is plugged in. Let me know if I am looking in the wrong spot (the most current 'stable' release of OH is what I installed atm). I am using the Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5, it seems to be the popular recommendation (thanks reddit) and on the plus side, no phantom nodes... I forgot that I joined few motion sensors a long time ago and since left them powered off (removed batteries) as I gave up on my first z-wave attempts initially. For whatever reason, OH decided that those nodes were 'online' during the detection phase. With batteries re-inserted and communications re-established , OH can properly diagnose them as offline when they actually do go offline - let's chalk that up to an OH bug. So, I basically have only added nodes in OH and done nothing else. Where I am still lost is the reporting delay on the nodes. Observing PaperUI / HABmin, updates seem to happen a slow rate (20-30 mins?), ie: the luminance sensor if I turn room lights off/on. I haven't measured the time yet, but I feel like I am missing something here. For example, say you were polling for motion and wanted to set off an audible alarm (yep I do have Aeotec sirens still in a box), you would want that happening as close to to real-time as possible... I'm certain this is achievable. Sorry for the huge dialogue over youtube, it's probably not the most suitable space - surely I am not the only newb going through this :)

Thanks for watching. Yes, there is an openHAB app that can control everything. You can choose to allow this outside of your network via the cloud, or you could configure VPN connectivity if you prefer.

No

Not without adding to them. I will be doing a review soon if the aeotec nano devices. These install behind your current switches and make a dumb switch smart!

Not directly, but as @yoyoTech said, you can put a AEOTEC (formerly AEON) micro or nano switch or dimmer in the wall box. You can connect your existing switch to to the AEOTEC device and it looks like a normal switch when put together, but is smart and fully automatable. If you replace your existing switch with a push button style switch it can make it even more useful by adding dimming at the actual switch as well as through openhab. I mention the AEOTEC version as I like how small they are, they just work and AEOTEC also make the most recommended Z-Stick. Fibaro and a couple of others make similar devices but I have only used AEOTEC devices. I just stick to what I know works.

Yes! I wanted to try and cover basics first so everyone who wants can work along.

I agree I'm only a beginner myself I started with paper ui then moved my rules over to text these are great videos to pull in new users they would have helped me loads This video will help I have been thinking about adding z wave to my setup was confused I was looking at the exact stick you use

When you do more text files would you consider using visual studio code with openhab extension its great for text files as it displays stuff in different colours and offers hints as you create the files

Hello Gary, thanks for watching. You can use HabPanel which is a touchscreen enabled interface for openHAB. It's a really nice interface and fairly simple to set up. I plan to do a video on it soon! Don't forget to subscribe!

Hi Joseph, best answer, because I have them! You could get everything working in openHAB. I use smartthings still to manage some zigbee sensors I have, and my z-wave locks. Thanks for watching, don't forget to subscribe.

Technically nothing should happen by just removing it and putting it back, it's serial over USB. Worst case restart. But you are better off using openHAB to initiate pairing so u should not have to really ever remove it. But I u want you can use the button method outlined in the device instructions.

@wa8khp - I just finished an extensive discussion on the openHab forum with the Maintainer, Chris Jackson, about this. Aeotec is very proud of their feature of wandering about with the stick to add devices. However, in my case (raspberry PI and openHab 2) whenever I removed the device, the system forgot about it and added it anew when the stick was re-attached (requiring all the associated z-wave devices to be added again) - not good. Chris told me that he believed that the only way to add things to openHab was to do it through the UI. In spite of what Aeotec wants us to do, don't remove it from the system. Instead, just use the "Search for Things" button (in the Paper UI Inbox). When you hit this button, openHab puts the Z-stick into inclusion mode and it will discover any new device that is in range. Of course, this means that a new thing that is far away possibly won't be discovered as easily as if you brought the Z-stick to it, but it should eventually be found if the z-wave net is connected enough. I have been following this procedure and have not had a problem, although I haven't added many things lately. I would suggest that if you are starting up brand-new, you should add any z-wave stuff to the Z-stick BEFORE PLUGGING IT IN THE FIRST TIME. The device in the Z-sticks database will then be more quickly discovered. After that, it is best to add new devices from the UI.

THANKS, good to know there are potential problems when removing/installing the USB Z-stick with the power on. Maybe powering OFF the Raspberry PI, removing the Z-stick and doing the inclusions then inserting the Z-stick and powering up the PI would be safe. I have many GE wall switches for 2, 3 and 4 way lights that I am going to install. It would be easier to do this at the switch when Pi is in the basement.

I don't know if they have fixed this over the years, but you used to have to be VERY careful with Unix/Linux based systems (raspberry PI) when you turned them off. They were very susceptible to losing information since the OS kept a lot of stuff in memory and didn't write it to non-volatile storage until it was convenient. Therefore, it was prudent to turn off a Unix system with three successive commands: # sync , # sync , # shutdown -f (note the # sign was the root prompt and the comma is a comma for separation - neither should be typed). The sync command forces a flush of memory to non-volatile storage; the second sync is over-cautious but sometimes necessary; and the shutdown command (should) flush memory also before shutting down. IMHO you should never just turn off a Unix based (or any other system). This may have been my problem with losing the identity of the Z-stick, as I may have been cavalier in turning off the PI. It seems logical that if you shutdown carefully, disconnect the z-stick and then replace it in the SAME physical USB port that it was in previously BEFORE turning it on, that the R-PI should not know that it was gone and should accept it as an old friend. Sometime I will test that...

THANKS for the commands (# sync , # sync , # shutdown -f ) as I did not know the proper shutdown procedure for the Pi.

Hi PowerWizard, I don't have a Zigbee dongle, but I do have a bunch of devices. I plan to continue the series and I will see if I can get a zigbee dongle to try that out!

Yes, the USB receiver will always need to be plugged into the raspberry pi, it is the bridge between the devices and openHAB. Check out my other video on creating rules with the web UI, it works pretty well if you are just looking for simple rules! - Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe! :-)

Take a look here www.cd-jackson.com/index.php/zwave/zwave-device-database/zwave-device-database-guide

I reinstalled openhab and now i can delete the wrong instances.

I have now tried both in Ubuntu and Windows. Same result :(

No, OpenHAB can control devices connected via wifi as well. Even Bluetooth. I recommend you to check their docs, it's pretty helpful.

Hi Stephen - don't blame openHAB :-( . Z-wave locks are tricky because of the security protocol. There is a "beta" binding that I have been using for some time that works well with openHAB and security protocol for Zwave, I believe it will become part of the main binding soon. Check out this thread! community.openhab.org/t/oh2-z-wave-refactoring-and-testing-and-security/21653/2591

yoyoTech fair enough. Wrote that in a fit of frustration. Ended up buying a Wink hub and going with the Homebridge Wink plugin. Works flawlessly. When the OpenHab z-wave lock Code goes mainstream, I’ll probably try again. I do appreciate your videos... well done.

started all over. removed the razberry modul and used the aeotec z stick with homeassistant and got it running within a few hours. key seems to be to reset the controller and all the devices