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Ok, I've just got a second Cygnett motion sensor tested, All perfect, recognised first time, pulled out Markus's Sonoff driver automatically, battery 100%.. It may be good and perhaps I've just the first unit that I've tested was a little bit "temperamental" All good.

I figured I wouldnโ€™t care about a cheap one, being used for a proof of concept, not surviving the damp conditions in my mail box.

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I made a new letter box and put a contact sensor on the flap at the front. If it gets opened I
get a google voice message and turn the kitchen light strip red, has worked well sofar...

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Hi Guys,

Having bought a few switches from Kevin in Melb and they are working quite well and hubitat picked them up no Drama's.

I have noticed we wait for the community to hand over kit and wait for the guru's to port over the zigbee or zwave sensor to hubitat and they do an amazing job.

Is there any tutorials to let the community learn how to port over new devices so we can grow the community quicker in Australia.

Why are there no protocol Standards in the home automation space so we can just use the devices as the Industrial and commercial space does?. Its got me beat.

Thanks,

Chris

Hi @njanda

I have a couple of these working great on ST.
Now i need them connected on my HE, but i can't figure out how to get them into pairing mode.
Do you have any ideas..? :slight_smile:

According to the manual:

Power on/off the device 5 times until the beeper in the module sounds continuously.

Let me know if it works because Iโ€™m about to have to do the same :wink:

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And hereโ€™s the manual:

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Thanks

Yup - i've read that too but can't get it to work.
Just to be clear - do you think the instruction mean:

Start with power ON - then power OFF/ON 5 times - end with ON the 5. time?
OR:
Start with power OFF - then ON/OFF 5 times - end with ON on the 5. or 6. time?

Who knows :man_shrugging: Maybe just turn it on and off until it starts beeping

I have to do the same very soon as Iโ€™m about to move mine from a C-5 hub to a C-7. Hopefully we can get the device to reset :slight_smile:

I have a vague recollection that it actually needed the "switch" connected to the unit to be cycled 5 times NOT power to the unit.
Sorry I can't test right now but I should be able to get to do some testing sometime tomorrow.

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Just tested:
Shortening the "S1" and "L" 5 times will make the relay beep after a couple of seconds, and go into pairing mode.

Thanks @njanda..! :slight_smile:

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Haha. You beat me to it. I just found the same. It is the switch in the S1 port that has to be switched on and off 5 times

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Just be really careful doing that. It is after all 230v that you are playing with doing it that way. I would recommend turning off the power on the circuit, connecting a light switch or similar between L and S1 and then use the light switch to turn on and off the switch.

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I got my Iris v3 Zigbee keypad today and it works great! Perfect for the cleaner and house sitters etc.

We wonโ€™t be using it much ourselves as we use geofencing.

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I've had a v2 for a couple of years now and the best thing I did was LiPo UPS power it.
But like you, my wife and I hardly ever actually use it. :slight_smile:

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I only got it for Guests, Cleaner and House Sitters - the wife and I have geofencing tied to our phones (Hubitat + Homekit and also Wifi detection to speed up arriving home).

I bought an iris recently Iโ€™ve yet to set up. What is your lipo setup?

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The v3 takes 4x AA batteries so just put energizer Lithium's in and it'll last for years. LiPo is quite unnecessary on the v3 imo.

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The v2 sucked batteries like it was going out of fashion. The dual batteries would last about 2 months so I grabbed a charger board and battery off of Fleabay and wired it in. Luckily it was easy to drop a figure 8 wire down inside the wall where Iโ€™d mounted the keypad.

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