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General => Installation issues => Topic started by: mythtified on October 11, 2010, 02:11:39 pm
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I have the door sensor listed above. When adding it to the my MCV dongle and plugging the dongle back into the computer I get the setup wizard. She walks me through the setup by telling me that a generic sensor has been detected and do I want to set it up now. I click the button that takes me to the room selection. As soon as I select a room I get a next button. I click next and I am taken to the type selection window. I select door sensor and the next button appears. I select next and I get to name the device. I type in a name and no button appears to move on to finish the configuration. I end up hitting done which usually turns the door sensor into an orbiter. I delete the orbiter that is created and the sensor ends up in the security section but does not seem to be completely functional.
Another thing I have noticed, when looking at device templates and Pluto is selected as the manufacturer, you only have one device to choose from under security <environment to choose, generic sensor template number 1813. But if no manufacturer is selected there are several to choose from including a door sensor template number 1599. In the setup wizard I don't have a choice but to select the generic sensor. How would the door sensor template be selected over the generic sensor template in the setup wizard?
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I have submitted ticket #845. Before submitting a ticket I did a search on Generic Sensor in the forum and found that something very similar occurred in July. It looks like a ticket was submitted at that time too.
I meant to add that the installation of linuxmce was very smooth and other than the problem with the door sensor went without a hitch. I installed from a dvd snapshot from Oct 8, 23326
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I typically use contact closure door sensors, attached to a GC-100 for a door sensor. Delete the Generic Sensor template, and replace it with a Door Sensor template in the web admin, keeping the Port device data the same.
-Thom
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ignore the wizard (until somebody feels like fixing it), use it as generic sensor (created automatically), assign it to a room and add a "door" icon from the webadmin..
br Hari
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Thx for the responses Hari and Thom. Hri, this may be a dumb question but you said to ignore the wizard and the generic sensor would automatically be picked and created. How does that work? I pair the sensor to the dongle and then plug it back into the computer. The wizard automatically starts and tells me that there is a sensor that has not been assigned to a room. Do I not go through that process and say no? Is the device created and configured anyway and I just have to assign it a room from the web admin? Well I answered my own question. Works great. Thx for all the help
Hari is there a place or places to learn more about zwave without the programming part? I mean where do I go to learn how zwave works, I realize it is a mesh network. I just don't understand the process. I see in the send command in the advanced interface for zwave several commands that could be useful if I had a better understanding of what is going on. Ultimately I would like to be able to look at the log and understand what is happening but I am not sure where to look for the basics.
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ignore the wizard (until somebody feels like fixing it), use it as generic sensor (created automatically), assign it to a room and add a "door" icon from the webadmin..
br Hari
Assigning rooms is easy but I just don't see any option for adding door icon from webadmin, can you please help.
Cheers,
Valent.
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Assigning rooms is easy but I just don't see any option for adding door icon from webadmin, can you please help.
Cheers,
Valent.
floorplan icon in device data
br Hari