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I have not yet contacted vera will try over the weekend, but this is the info from my z-wave supplier

Hi Lee,



I'm not sure that this will work in VERA - not convinced it will work with any Z-Wave environment.


Firstly, lets just confirm terminology as you may be using 'Association' in different ways.


Association in Z-Wave terms means that you 'pair' two Z-Wave devices together so that they can communicate directly, without any traffic going through the controller, we have a Knowledgebase explaining this - http://www.vesternet.com/knowledgebase/technical/kb-27


So in this case, it would be an association between the PIR and a dimmer (or relay) - the PIR would detect motion and then turn the dimmer on, then off again when no motion is detected, the example in this guide shows just that - http://www.vesternet.com/resources/application-notes/apnt-15


But in your case you're trying to associate it with a virtual device, and I don't see how that can work as it is not a physical device. For VERA to add the association, both devices have to be on the VERA network, then VERA talks to the device you wish to associate the PIR with and sets the association in that device (for battery devices they have to be awake to accept this association). But with a Virtual device, this cannot happen as it is not a real Z-Wave device with the correct characteristics.


How is the Comfort Virtual Node shown in VERA - is it shown as a Virtual device or some other device?


If the Virtual node is showing in VERA, then the easy way would be to have the PIR trigger a VERA scene and then the Scene will activate the Virtual node - this is how you'd do it with a normal virtual device in VERA - we do the same thing for LightwaveRF devices in VERA - you have the Z-Wave device trigger a scene to control the LightwaveRF device as they can't speak directly.


Does that make sense?

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