I just installed the VZW32-SN to replace my old GE motion switch. With that one, the driver had 2 child devices - one for the light itself and the other for the motion sensor. I’m wanting to base some routines based on presence, like I did on the GE one, but I’m not sure how to go about it. For instance, at night I had the light turn off quicker after motion stopped than it did during the day. Surely this is possible with this switch? I’m using Hubitat but also have SmartThings available if for some reason I can only do what I’m wanting to via that platform.
There should be no issue doing that - it should overall be very similar to however you had your GE switch set up, since this device also leverages the “motion” attribute.
The firmware / driver doesn’t support setting this on the switch itself, so this would have to be done via rule-based automation. Inovelli’s Hubitat driver supports setting any parameter as a (Rule Machine) Custom Action, so it should be possible to do.
This is the key reason behind this ask. It would be really great to see better support for device preference manipulation as a platform feature of hubitat. The current approach of using the setParameter function @hydro311 mentioned works but is a real pain in the butt and really hurts rule readability.
I’d like to do this too. I just set up 4 red mmWave dimmers on my Hubitat C8 along with the custom driver from GitHub, but I don’t see any indications for motion or presence in the device. Are you guys seeing anything actually triggered on motion?
@Eric_Inovelli Whats up with the github driver for the VZW32-SN?
We waited almost 2 years for the red series presence devices and to find the driver is not even defined in the app code for hubitat?
The root of this thread would be solved if the the correct driver was defined in the the app code.
The real kicker is the options to control the reason people bought this switch, the presence sensor are not present with using other device types. Common use case is to disable motion during the day and enable it at night.
Please help.
referencing this repo
and this knowledge article for the app code in hubitat.