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 implement this is to do the following: 

    BIP_DURATION=1
    BIP_INTERVAL=2

    def bip
      @device.enable_siren
      sleep BIP_DURATION
      @device.disable
      sleep BIP_INTERVAL
    end

    def test
      bip
      bip
      bip
      bip
      bip
      bip
    end

Small note: While playing with the siren... better prepare a simple Bash script for enabling/disabling :-) for instance:

# disable
curl -v -XGET "http://:8083/ZWaveAPI/Run/devices%5BXXX%5D.instances%5B0%5D.commandClasses%5B38%5D.Set(0)"

where XXX is the ID of your device

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