Controller tools

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Get Zwave controller informations

  • you can check to verify the information on zwave network state and controller in the first part of the page.

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Drivers and controller commands

In this section, orders can be sent directly to the driver

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Stop and Start driver (controller)

TODO :

Driver automatically starts and start/stop button automatically changes depending on the state of the driver.

  • You can stop it when it’s possible : ctrl-stop-bt

confimation dialog aks you to continue.

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  • You can Start it when it’s possible : ctrl-start-bt

Initialization process running, you must be patient ....

Controller commands and actions

  • You access to dialog box by button ctrl-action-bt

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Actions process

  • This modal dialog contains informations to guide the user.
  • Just actions “CreateButton” and “DeleteButton” are not implemented yet.
Action / command Description
AddDevice Add a new device (but not a controller) to the Z-Wave network.
CreateNewPrimary Add a new controller to the Z-Wave network. The new controller will be the primary, and the current primary will become a secondary controller.
ReceiveConfiguration Receive Z-Wave network configuration information from another controller.
RemoveDevice Remove a new device (but not a controller) from the Z-Wave network.
RemoveFailedNode Move a node to the controller’s failed nodes list. This command will only work if the node cannot respond.
HasNodeFailed Check whether a node is in the controller’s failed nodes list.
ReplaceFailedNode Replace a non-responding node with another. The node must be in the controller’s list of failed nodes for this command to succeed.
TransferPrimaryRole Make a different controller the primary.
RequestNetworkUpdate Request network information from the SUC/SIS.
RequestNodeNeighborUpdate Get a node to rebuild its neighbour list. This method also does ControllerCommand_RequestNodeNeighbors.
AssignReturnRoute Assign a network return routes to a device.
DeleteAllReturnRoutes Delete all return routes from a device.
SendNodeInformation Send a node information frame.
ReplicationSend Send information from primary to secondary.
CreateButton Create an id that tracks handheld button presses.
DeleteButton Delete id that tracks handheld button presses.

Schematic processing

  • Each action have differents step, some will attempt user action on device, some will take a long time, some must be stop manually.
  • You can stop action, but stop result have some time a fail report.

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Reset controller

  • Two mode possible with acces by buttons : ctrl-reset-bt

Soft reset

  • Soft Reset a PC Z-Wave Controller who resets a controller without erasing its network configuration settings

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Hard reset

Warning

Be careful this action is irreverssible

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