Aeotec siren 6 new driver

scottmil · July 3, 2021, 9:57pm

My Aeotec Siren 6 devices started to fire randomly or not at all after Hubitat updated to the Aeotec Siren 6 New device driver.

As a last resort before ditching my Siren 6 devices in favor of the Dome siren, I made an attempt to migrate Kevin LaFramboise’s Aeotec Siren 6 SmartThings device handler to Hubitat:

github.com

krlaframboise/SmartThings/blob/master/devicetypes/krlaframboise/aeotec-siren-6.src/aeotec-siren-6.groovy

/**
 *  Aeotec Siren 6 v1.2.2
 *  (Model: ZW164-A)
 *
 *  Author:
 *    Kevin LaFramboise (krlaframboise)
 *
 *	URL to Documentation:  https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-aeotec-siren-6/164654?u=krlaframboise
 *
 *
 *  Changelog:
 *
 *    1.2.2 (12/12/2020)
 *      - Added custom presentation to prevent offline errors.
 *
 *    1.2.1 (09/13/2020)
 *      - Removed vid which makes it fully supported in the new mobile app.
 *      - Made setLevel temporarily change the level to prevent network errors.
 *
 *    1.1.5 (03/14/2020)

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I replaced all instances of physicalgraph with hubitat per instructions on the Hubitat community forum:

Although I was expecting Hubitat to throw errors after installing the migrated device driver, I was pleasantly surprised that the migrated Siren 6 driver worked! The chime works by invoking “beep(), siren with siren(), and siren and strobe with both(). So far I have not encountered any problems, and the random firing of the siren has stopped. Neat! Thanks, Kevin!