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    I have a potential client who manages a bunch of summer rental properties and are looking for a solution to use Z-wave locks on the doors rather than key locks. What is needed is a plugin that works on the Zee, another plugin that works with their property management software and, I assume, a cloud program that acts as a bridge between the two. Their property management software generates emails to send to the renters before they arrive and they would like the keycode to be included in the email, and it will generate the codes. Then it needs to program the lock with the code and remove it when the rental is over.

    Is there a developer who would be interested in this project? It's been too long since I've done serious programming so am not wanting to tackle it myself due to the large learning curve.

    #2
    HS does not expose the functionality to program z-wave locks with codes through the z-wave plugin. It's been asked for and there's no indication that they will make it available anytime soon. I would recommend calling them and talking to them (Rich) about it. I'm not sure why they haven't made the functionality available. It would be very helpful and I don't see any downside to it.

    Cheers
    Al
    HS 4.2.8.0: 2134 Devices 1252 Events
    Z-Wave 3.0.10.0: 133 Nodes on one Z-Net

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      #3
      hmmm....so you can use the "Z-wave Actions -> Set User Security Code" from an event but you can't set the code from a plugin? That seems odd.

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        #4
        Originally posted by donleycomputers View Post
        hmmm....so you can use the "Z-wave Actions -> Set User Security Code" from an event but you can't set the code from a plugin? That seems odd.
        Correct to both.
        HS 4.2.8.0: 2134 Devices 1252 Events
        Z-Wave 3.0.10.0: 133 Nodes on one Z-Net

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          #5
          Originally posted by donleycomputers View Post
          hmmm....so you can use the "Z-wave Actions -> Set User Security Code" from an event but you can't set the code from a plugin? That seems odd.
          There are loads of functions like this unfortunately that exist in events but not scripts - there's very little scripting options available for the Z-Wave interface at all that have been documented, I imagine that the function is exposed but just not documented and may never be if there are security concerns.

          I'm afraid looking at your requirements (and I'm not a professional coder and I am fairly often proved wrong) I'm not sure you will find someone here all that willing, it could be quite a fair bit of work (who knows what options the property management system has for interfacing with, it may be completely locked down) and some real security considerations - I wouldn't want to be responsible if the access to x hundred number of properties was compromised.

          On the upside I'm not convinced you would need a plugin on the HS side of things if the function was exposed - you could potentially do it via the JSON interface with some creativity.

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            #6
            Thanks for the reply guys.

            I have my own security concern on the project, but the reality was this is what they wanted and there are other solutions available that will do it, but it would cost them $10,000 a year in fees and I'm not a big fan of monthly fees for not much of anything, especially that much.

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