anyone using z-wave?

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I want to use z-wave wall switches to control the lights within pimatic. Does anyone here use z-wave? And does it work well with pimatic? I saw 2 plugins for pimatic.

Yes, I use it. I use the razberry board and the zway plugin

Hi @sweebee I created pimatic-zwave-usb it works pretty stable, only downside is that not much devices are supported yet… The only z-wave devices I have are a thermostat valve and a power switch.

When comparing z-wave to 433, the z-wave devices are extremely responsive. If I press the button in Pimatic the light turns on almost instantly.

I did have some annoying pairing issues with my thermostat devices, I solved that by resetting the z-wave network (but that shouldn’t be necessary).

I want to use these switches to send signals to pimatic to control other devices, would that be possible?

https://www.robbshop.nl/dubbele-wand-schakelaar-z-wave-plus-tz56d

Unfortunately not out of the box. But I think it’s pretty easy to implement.

If you add the device to the network, find the command class and the node id (sort of documentation). You can probably duplicate the power switch code and change the class id to the multiswitch class id. Not sure, but I think you’re pretty close at this point.

Using razberry with zway works quite solid. However I think switches are currently only polled. I think one would need to change the implementation of the zway plugin to use the websocket provided by zway than it should be possible to work event driven.
Don’t know about the USB solution of @Tim.

@thex Not sure if I use the socket connection, but it’s definitely not polling. I make use of this library: https://github.com/jperkin/node-openzwave

I use razberry with power plug multisensor etc. as GPIO version and pimatic plugin.

@Tim looks like direct serial connection to the stick so it should get updates immediately, no server/middleware in between so this could work if one adds the needed devices

I am also using z-wave devices. But no switches! Instead of z-wave switches i use the much more cheaper amazon dash buttons!
cheers

I have one of these: https://www.robbshop.nl/fibaro-inbouwschakelaar-2-1-5-kw with a razzberry
Works like a charm!