Greetings, I am joining Hubitat community after many years with Vera/Ezlo. I am very encouraged with the progress thus far. I have come to the point where I need to complete Associations to get the highly desirable capability of my scene controllers.
I have Aeotec Wallmotes and Nodon scene controllers. These devices rely on ASSOCIATION in order to 1) properly select controller capability and 2) to then accomplish direct association between the scene controller and the device.
I have seen some posts about Tweaker. I would like to get current validation on the best method to accomplish Association. I can work through a solid recommendation but, I cannot abandon the highly desirable capabilities enabled by Association.
I have a Nodon 4 button remote and had no need for associations. I just programmed all my actions using the button controller App on HE.
The only thing that may possibly be better with associations is if you want to directly dim another z-wave device from the button device, but even that can be done with button controller.
Anyway... I have recently added associations support to my universal Z-wave scanner project: [RELEASE] Z-Wave Universal Device Scanner That will be your best bet if you do not need to do multichannel associations.
NEITHER of these fully support battery devices with waking up, so many of the commands you need to wake the device up then quickly press the command buttons. I actually just realized my newer scanner tool is sending a WakeUp No More Info message back after about 2 seconds as well, that might need to be commented out so it does not interrupt things.
Here is the BC programming on my Nodon remote for an example.
Thanks for the prompt help! In the spirit of full disclosure I am only about two days experienced with Hubitat so I may be overlooking something.
Regarding using the buttons straight up.........I notice that although I was able to select the NODON Soft Remote upon adding, it reports as a 'generic' button control in the device details. That does not seem right.
I am not familiar with 'BC programming' and have do not see any such table format for commands like JTP10181..........????
Using the buttons to drive 'apps' might be what I end up with. However, this is all for dimming functions and they sure worked well with the Association technique.
Well, maybe I don't need Associations as I once did on other systems.....
I followed the instructions to install Button Controller 5.1 and it went just as advertised. It took a little time to cogitate about Apps and the Button Controller but, it eventually sunk in. Once I had a little success I was able to experiment with the various commands. In the end, I have very nice control over our two most used sets of lights. My customer (wife) is quite pleased.
I am also grateful to have some information about Tweaking associations should that become necessary for other purposes.
I am about 1/3 through migrating all my devices to Hubitat. I started with a couple of devices that I thought might be show-stoppers. But the equipment and software have been very solid. And your help here on the community forum has been outstanding and motivating.
