Using Z-wave locks

[James Sentman]

What kind of ZWave lock do you have? I think the confusion is that the one I’ve got, a schlague doesn’t actually lock or unlock by itself. You can only send it a signal to engage the cam that connects the physical knob to the locking mechanism. It turns on, you turn the knob and unlock or lock the door. If you tirn on the cam and dont do anything in a few seconds then the lock doesn’t change state.

So perhaps for mine this makes a little bit of sense, you’re enabling manual control of the lock, but if yours is fully motorized then maybe it doesn’t make sense. You say “Kwkset” lock later on in the email, is that the brand of motorized lock?

Mine also does not report to the Vera which code was used, so I can’t get that info in XTEnsion even though I wrote code to support different actions upon different codes I was never able to test and finish because my lock doesn’t work properly in that way.

I’ll have a look at the kwikset ones and see if something there looks better.




> On Jun 12, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Chuck <xtension4osx at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> The interface to XTension needs some work but I have made it workable and is it seamless at this point. The biggest issue is that you have use “on” to lock AND unlock it. It just changes the state to what it currently isn’t. Using the “off” option does nothing. I wrote the code like so.
> 
> If status of “Front door lock” is greater than 0 then
> turnon “Front door lock”
> end if
> 
> Status greater than 0 indicates that the lock is unlocked. Turning it “on” will change the state to locked which is 0.0 on a status check. The value is either 0.0 for locked or 1.0 for unlocked although I have one lock that is 100.0 and haven’t been able to figure that one out. For this reason I used the “greater than 0” option which will cover both the 1.0 and the 100.0.
> 

Thanks,
 	James


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