I'm one of "those users" who made the jump to Node-RED so can recommend that as an alternative for people interested in a more visually based / flow style approach that also helps reduce overhead on the hub itself. ymmv of course..
Having said that the quickest and easiest way to controlling home automation in HE by far is RM and it's lighter weight siblings..
I don't think the driver itself got updated in 2.2.9, but I'm admittedly not sure... There was mention about a fix for some input relays in the release notes, but I don't believe any additional functionality was added to the driver in terms of exposing more parameters.
I agree that would be cool though!
@mychristopher in case it is helpful, I have captured some screenshots that show how to create a rule that will open the garage door when a virtual switch is turned on. The virtual switch should be accessible from simple rules. You can create a similar rule for closing the garage door when the virtual switch is turned off.
Marc
I certainly appreciate you taking the time to mock that up. I've been fighting wanting to learn full on rule engine vs staying with simple rules. My intial thoughts were the less apps and things installed on the Hubitat the more efficient it would be, so I didn't want to install rule engine just for one rule. I'll throw it on there later and toy around. Again, thank you for taking the time to do that.
Good stuff -- I think you'll dig it! Don't be frustrated by the learning curve - I know it can be intimidating at first, but just be patient and ask questions here in the community.
Once I embraced Rule Machine, it opened up so many more doors to do cool things with HE. Heck, you got this powerful lil device, why not use all the advantages it offers?
I too was concerned about stressing out hub efficiency/overhead, but don't sweat that at all -- unless you get into some really crazily complex stuff or horrendously inefficient automations, it's a non-issue.
Hi Christopher, happy to help out in any way I can.
I started out with simple rules. Once I got the hang of Rule Machine, I actually took the time to convert many of my rules to Rule Machine because it was actually simpler to use once I understood it.
Also take a look at button controller for managing responses to buttons.
At this point I am down to 2 "simple rules" -- the rest are either in Rule Machine or Button Controller.
Marc
Guys, thanks for the offers. I'm going to give it a shot. So, i've attached an image. Before I activate it, am I on the right track?
I want the kitchen sink light to turn on when there is motion, then turn off 1 minute after the motion stops. However, I only want this to happen between 5 minutes before sunset and 5 mintues after sunrise...
So, here's where I guess we get into something big.
My simple rule is to notify me if someone leaves the fridge open. As you can see, if the sensor is left open for 3 minutes, it does the action. On the Rule Machine, I guess is a little more complicated. Would you mind nudging me towards how to cancel the action if the sensor closes prior to the 3 minutes? Thank you!
Well, guys, I did some reading and this is what I came up with. I'll test it, but does this make sense? Does it appear I got it?
Updated 10/15, after getting some sleep 
Hi Christopher, you fridge sensor rule is headed in the right direction. I think that my original reply to you was as clear as mud, so instead I have created a new post further down this thread that I think will make it clearer. Leaving the old post here in case it provided any value for you.
Marc
Hope this helps!
Marc
Toggling the "Cancelable?" switch circled in red below....
results in the action looking like this:
Hi Christopher, here is my feedback on the kitchen motion rule;
Marc
@mychristopher, I took a few minutes and created the rule that I would have used to handle your fridge example.
The "Cancel timed actions" at the top of the rule ensures that only 1 instance of the rule will ever be running at a time.
The announcement starts after 3 minutes and will not end until the fridge is closed.
Hope this helps!
Marc
Thank you. Now I know I'm not the only one. I received mine last night and use the Basic Z-Wave Tools to set parameters 6 and 8 to auto shut off the relay (and parameters 15 and 17 to change the duration to seconds), however, I can't get it to work. The only thing I can guess is it is something in the driver. I'm using firmware version 1.03.
As a temp fix I created a basic rule to turn the relay off after one second, but I prefer it to be performed at the hardware level.
AFAIK, 1.04 is the latest firmware for the Z17 - I'm not sure if that has anything directly to do with the params not sticking, but may be nice to get overall.
I was able to get those parameters to stick via the Basic Z-Wave Tool, but I can't recall the exact step sequence I used... I don't use that tool enough to be fluent, so I end up doing a lot of trial-&-error each time I use it. But I somehow did successfully get that auto-off set up for 1 second.
After all that effort, I ended up using the Zooz Garage Door app to get a nice-looking tile for the dashboard, and that app has a relay auto-off option built into it to (can be enabled or disabled), so if you can't get those params to stick, that's another option to consider.
Though that Zooz Garge Door app is written for the Z16, it works great for the Z17 too.
Good luck!
@hydro311, Thanks! I will look into that. I also sent an email to Zooz.
From looking at the log while using the Basic Z-Wave Tool everything looks good. Same when I request the parameter information from the device. I've tried rebooting the hub and power cycling the device several times. I have created a rule for the relay to auto open after one second, but things like this make me wonder.
Hi all, just wired mine up to 2x garage doors and reed switches. Everything seems to work fine when I manually trigger from the HE Device UI (doors open and close, sensors read correct values) but am struggling to connect this to dashboard UI. From what I've worked out the general strategy is to create a virtual garage door device for each physical door, then use rules to connect the virtual device to the Zen17 I/O.
Which virtual device are people using? The built in "Virtual Garage Door Controller" or something else?
I use the Zooz GDO app I mentioned 2 posts up.
This thread was a big help in getting the ZEN17 setup for a Genie Pro 1024 garage door opener, which has a wall switch with a light button. Much thanks!
These posts were especially helpful:
I am using the Hubitat C7 hub, the Genie Pro 1024 garage door opener, and a TILT-ZWAVE2.5-ECO tilt sensor with the ZEN17
Here are the steps I followed from the other posts here, in case it helps:
Everything is working well so far! Thanks again for sharing info here. The instructions included with the Zen17 weren't enough for me to figure it out.
Thanks hydro311 and heuser321! I got it all working. My problem was I was coming at it from a garage door POV and working back to Zen17 instead of starting at Zen17 and working towards garage door if that makes sense.
@neonturbo @SteveZed this was finally added in 1.10 release.
@bcopeland would it be possible to add parameters 19 and 20 to the driver?
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