In another thread, randy posted a picture of a Z-wave remote from Vesternet. I went to order one, but only the EU version was in stock. They offered the Zigbee version, which is $10 less. I ordered one, it took a little over 2 weeks to get to Minnesota from the UK. A Hue hub has limited functions, so I used a Conbee II stick with phoscon and Jowihue. The remote is made by Sunricher. The buttons labeled 1,2,3 and 4 have 2 buttons each. These allow short press, long press and released. The buttons labeled S1 and S2 are short press only. The top two buttons are limited out of the box- The (I) button sends a short press of the (I) side of buttons 1,2,3 & 4 in quick succession (30 ms?) (O) does the same with the other side. Based on a post on a Hubitat forum, I wrote an event to add the 4 button presses and store the sum in a placeholder virtual device. These sums are unique values, so I created a copy of the Zigbee remote feature and added these values to the device status. The placeholder then sends the value to the virtual remote, and resets to 0. Events can be run from the virtual remote.
I think there is likely a better way to do this, as my event runs 4 times, but it is working for now. My knowledge of scripts and node-red is pretty limited.
Now need to think of a good use for it!
Device 885 is the physical remote, 889 is the placeholder. Hope someone finds this useful.
I think there is likely a better way to do this, as my event runs 4 times, but it is working for now. My knowledge of scripts and node-red is pretty limited.
Now need to think of a good use for it!
Device 885 is the physical remote, 889 is the placeholder. Hope someone finds this useful.