Fibaro multisensor/openzwave configuration timing

[Dale_M 0]

I'm having difficulty making configuration changes in my Fibaro multisensor via libopenzwave; all things work perfectly otherwise.  Am I correct in thinking that this battery-powered device wakes up and connects to the network very briefly, and then goes to sleep again, and that these brief intervals are the only times when the device will hear parameter setting commands?  If so, how am I supposed to time the commands so that they get noticed?

[I.Srodka 4]

Hello,

 

To change the configuration in battery-powered device you need to wake it up or wait for the interval.

 

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[petergebruers 1,268]

1 hour ago, Dale_M said:

I'm having difficulty making configuration changes in my Fibaro multisensor via libopenzwave; all things work perfectly otherwise.  Am I correct in thinking that this battery-powered device wakes up and connects to the network very briefly, and then goes to sleep again, and that these brief intervals are the only times when the device will hear parameter setting commands?  If so, how am I supposed to time the commands so that they get noticed?

 

All battery operated sensors (that is a little white lie, but there are very few exceptions!) behave like this. There is one more catch to what you are saying. When you "wake it up by triple clicking the B-button." the device stays awake for several seconds... unless the controllers sends it back to sleep. Then it will be much shorter. I'm not sure your controller software does that. To test that, I would change only one thing at a time (so not parameters and wake-up in one go).

 

Did you observe the blue LED while you woke up the device?

 

What value for wake-up do you want to set?

[Dale_M 0]

Well as I understand it triple-clicking the button is to register the device with the network, I should only need to single-click to get a wake-up.  I saw the blue light when I did the initial registration, which worked fine.

 

I want to set it to send temperature readings every 15 minutes (by default it samples the temperature every 15 minutes, but why is the default set to never send the temperature?)  I also want to get the LED to stop flashing altogether.

 

I'm still struggling with this.  Currently I'm waiting for a lux reading to come in, and then immediately sending out the temperature selection, but alas to no avail.

[I.Srodka 4]

6 minutes ago, Dale_M said:

I should only need to single-click to get a wake-up

 

It depends. This devices wakes up after triple-click, just as I posted above.

[petergebruers 1,268]

11 minutes ago, Dale_M said:

Well as I understand it triple-clicking the button is to register the device with the network, I should only need to single-click to get a wake-up.  I saw the blue light when I did the initial registration, which worked fine.

 

I want to set it to send temperature readings every 15 minutes (by default it samples the temperature every 15 minutes, but why is the default set to never send the temperature?)  I also want to get the LED to stop flashing altogether.

 

I'm still struggling with this.  Currently I'm waiting for a lux reading to come in, and then immediately sending out the temperature selection, but alas to no avail.

 

As Mr Srodka says, the 3-click thing is in the manual.

 

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There are several parameters regarding temperature, please have a look at number 60 to 66 then come back if you have more questions.

 

You say the sensor by default does not report temperature, but that is incorrect. The default is to send temperature, whenever temperature measurement differs from the last measurement by 1 degree C. So you'll always have the correct temperature plus-minus 1 degree by default.

 

Please leave the wake-up at the default to save battery.

 

Do not hesitate to ask more questions after you have toyed with the parameters.