Introducing AK Smart Device plugin for HomeSeer

[alexbk66]

Thanks for the update Alex. It looks like a great plugin so can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Thank you. It should be better than before as I have now more HS experience. It was my first HS plugin BTW.

But porting this one will be huge amount of work because UI is now very limited - unless I create my own HTML and JavaScript pages. We'll see.

[Gogs]

OK first attempt and I am getting this error - [2076]: StartState not set for: StateDevice 1946, State 0

[alexbk66]

OK first attempt and I am getting this error - [2076]: StartState not set for: StateDevice 1946, State 0

First attempt of what? Can you please provide more info?

[Gogs]

First attempt of what? Can you please provide more info?

First attempt to set up a Lamp module to come on and off by one motion sensor.

[alexbk66]

First attempt to set up a Lamp module to come on and off by one motion sensor.

Ok, can you please share what you actually did, post screenshots, etc

[alexbk66]

Ok, can you please share what you actually did, post screenshots, etc

If you need help of course, not just sharing...

[alexbk66]

I'm porting AKSmartDevice to HS4 - most of functionality of the plugin is changed in HS4 - so it looks like it's almost a complete re-write 😓

Well, it means it will be even better than before

[Bigstevep]

Sounds Great! Take your time but hurry up!

[csullivan2005]

Hi. Came across your plugin. I’m trying to set up 4 switches to always be in sync with each other. One is master switch and the other are accessory switches for a light. I want everything to be in sync no matter which of the 4 switches I press. Is your plug-in designed for this? If so what is best way to do it? Thank you!

[alexbk66]

Hi. Came across your plugin. I’m trying to set up 4 switches to always be in sync with each other. One is master switch and the other are accessory switches for a light. I want everything to be in sync no matter which of the 4 switches I press. Is your plug-in designed for this? If so what is best way to do it? Thank you!

You can use my plugin, but it's probably easier to use "Linked Device" HS feature. Assuming all switches value for on/off are the same.

Since each device can have only one Linked Device - you need to set circular dependency i.e. 1 => 2 => 3 => 4 => 1

[csullivan2005]

Yes I use linked feature for many of light switches and works great. However I just bought a ton of the new zwave plus switches which now display as root device and child devices (notification device and feature device). And with these new zwave plus switches the HomeSeer linked feature is not working at all for me. It is either very slow or only 2 or 3 out of the 4 switches I want linked sync. It’s been a nightmare. I think these new zwave plus switches may not be compatible with the linked feature or I could be missing something.

[alexbk66]

Or it could be HST issue, did you try support?

[alexbk66]

I'm planning adding groups to AKSmartDevice (for a long time). May be I should start doing it😀