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The controller needs to poll the comfort virtual nodes to get the statusSorry - really new to Z-Wave So how does a Z-Wave PIR from various manufacturers send it's status to the master controller to say it's tripped ? It isn't polled. What I expected was a Comfort virtual device that represented a zone to masquerade as such a sensor and update it's status in the master controller. Is this an aspect of the secondary/primary controller communication ?
In zwave the devices do not automatically send their status when there is a change- this is a limitation with zwave
The devices need to be polled
What I had hoped was that the Comfort UCM could act as a Z-Wave device that associated with the primary controller and had say 250+ endpoints it reported back the status of in realtime. eg counter values or flags. Akin to a multifunction Z-Wave sensor with 150 different values it reported back as they changed.
Time for me to read up some more I guess as this is obviously a naive understanding.
I don't understand the significance of the 'association' post you made Julian either so I'll try and read up on that too.
Last edited on Thursday Jul 2nd, 2015 08:06 pm by xAPPO
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