rzwaveway: controlling a siren & strobe alarm
Finally "back to work" and trying to finalize a first fully working version of my home alarm system... I am now looking at how to use my alarm device, a " FortrezZ strobe and alarm " ZWave device. I added a small extension to the rzwaveway library for that matter. It is a simple interface for controlling the state of the alarm and enabling or disabling the strobe light and siren. zway = RZWaveWay::ZWay.instance zway.setup(hostname) zway.start device = RZWaveWay::Extensions::SSASirenStrobeAlarm.new(device_id) device.enable_strobe sleep 5 device.enable_siren sleep 5 device.disable Unfortunately it seems that the "SetWithDuration" function of the SwitchMultiLevel command class does not work (at least from the Z-Wave Me web UI). I guess it would have helped to implement a "pre-alarm warning" (e.g. some short bips to notify when the alarm is armed). The best solution I could find so far to