This valve is working great on my 1" PEX water main.
It shows reversed close/open for me in Hubitat with the generic valve drivers. It also does not expose the built in water sensor yet. Looking forward to the official drivers. Here's a picture and a short video of it in action after triggering the built-in water sensor with some water.
It is a little tricky to get it to open again once it triggers... I had to dry it very thoroughly and blow air through the sensor. I am currently unable to use it with the hubitat safety monitor app using the other new zooz z-wave leak sensors I got, because the safety monitor can only close valves in response to leaks, not open them.
FYI, I was also unable to pair it from my utility room and I had to "calibrate" it on the valve, then uninstall it and move it close to the hub to pair, and then reinstall it on the valve again. It now seems to work fine from the utility room with (reversed) hub control.
I have it plugged into the UPS for my instant water heater for some power failure protection.
Finally got mine installed in a horizontal position. I actually have two main shut off valves, one before and one after the meter. Put it on the lower one so I have more reach for the leak sensor, although looks like it could be extended with a 3.5mm jack extension. Power cord was just long enough to get up to the ceiling and over to the outlet for the water softener.
Calibration Note - Maybe it is just me but the paper instructions confused me a little. I was thinking OK I need to hold this button for a while and then at some point two beeps will go and it will calibrate. Not the case, I held it way too long then realized what was going on and it made some angry beeps and flashed a red light at me. When you hold your finger on the button it will beep/chirp about every second and you need to RELEASE the button right after two chirps (not one and not three) to get it to calibrate. Maybe I should have watched the video but, call me old school, I would rather read the instructions on paper.
Inclusion - I opted to try the Smart Start. I waited until after I calibrated it then scanned the smart start. I then power cycled it which seems to have forced it to pair up and it joined without any issues.
Driver - Mine paired with some heat-it temp sensor driver, and it was getting temp reports so this things must have a temp sensor in it (bonus). The "Generic Z-Wave Valve" was not working at all for me. The commands did not do anything and nothing in the logs. I did however discover the "Generic Z-Wave Plus Switch" driver works great for turning the valve on and off, On is ON and Off is OFF.
Plan to start tinkering with a custom driver for it to see what capabilities can be unlocked. Not sure what the timeline is for 2.2.9, or what functionality the driver will include?
Firmware: My unit is reporting firmware 1.1 using the Basic Z-Wave Tool
Ok my first sensor driver, this is a pain but I am learning a lot about zwave in the process. I almost have a beta complete just trying to work a few things out. Here are the pics I promised.
@jtp10181 I installed mine today using the "Generic Z-wave plus switch" driver but it is reporting "switch: Off" while the valve is open. Any suggestions?
Thats actually normal. They have a parameter to flip it but it defaults that way. If you think about what it is, a valve actuator, which is normally letting water flow. Think about it that way, in the open position, you could consider the "actuator" to be OFF. Then when you turn ON the actuator, it closes the valve. The driver I will be posting today accounts for this and you can adjust the parameter to have on = open if you want. The open/close state will always report correct on my driver though, just the on/off switch state will be reversed by default (per the Zooz default).
Update: Results of running overnight, we have temperature reports. I set it to only report with a 2F change (a parameter) because it seemed like it was bouncing around but I might try it back at 1F again. Purple line is the ZAC36, the huge swings was me moving it in front of an AC vent to test the temp reporting, then back to my hot office, then to the basement where it will live in exile.
Your driver is working well for me. I had to remove and re-pair the titan to get it working properly, but now it will respond to open/close triggers appropriately and can be added to the Hubitat Safety Monitor for leaks. It works well with the new zooz ZSE42 water sensors and shuts off water to the house quickly when any of them are triggered.
PS what are you making those temperature graphs with?
Grafana. You have to use something to get the events from Hubitat to a database, like InfluxDB. I use MakerAPI to send the events to Node-Red which I then have setup to save to Influx. Then Grafana can read from Influx. It is not for the faint of heart. I am pretty skilled with these things and I ended up making custom stuff for Node-Red and then you have to build Flux queries for Grafana to get the data. I loosely followed a write up on the forms but it is old and I used the newest versions of everything so I had to adapt it to that. But yeah, its pretty awesome.
Looks like it would just fit. The clamps can also slide further or closer to the valve and I have mine slid out a little. The clamps open wide so it should be able to clamp on that elbow.
Hi, does anyone know how the Hubitat ZAC36 driver for this actuator works? I see several options for Auto Test Mode and Water Leak Valve control, etc under the device settings.
Here is how they show on my custom driver, I tried to make the info as clear as possible after discussing what some of them do with Zooz. Link for driver is a few posts up. Does that help? Otherwise not sure what you are asking exactly.
Wow, I think I will try your custom driver instead of the one Hubitat already had for it.
I read on the Zooz website about the Auto Test which turns the valve 1/8 of a turn I’m guessing to verify the valve is not stuck. Not sure what kind of report one would get if it was stuck though. I guess I’d have to program a rule for that depending.
Our valve was not able to be turned with the Dome actuator due to the torque required. But the Titan works a charm and seemed to use more and more torque as the calibration process went on. Amazing. Because of this though, I think the auto test is intriguing.
Right on - definitely been there, done that for other Zooz goodies! Just curious if any current users happened to know before I harassed Zooz about it. Thanks!
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Just curious if any current users happened to know before I harassed Zooz about it. Thanks!
Just reply to your order confirmation and ask for the 1.14 file.
