Z-Wave Raw Commands?

In the Indigo documentation, in the section Z-Wave hooks and improvements, it shows the following detail:

Code: Select all

# Send a Z-Wave command
indigo.zwave.sendRaw(device,        # device arg is optional - if not specified you must specify a nodeId
               nodeId,              # optional - if not specified you must specify a device
               endpoint,            # optional - if a nodeId is specified and supports multiple endpoints
               cmdBytes,
               sendMode,            # 0: immediate, 1: immediate first, if no ACK wait for wake, 2: wait for wake
               waitUntilAck         # defaults to True if not specified


There is no example code to show how to format the call. I am unclear as to how you skip past the optional fields. The various things I have tried have not resulted in success.

All the various calls in that section could do with specific examples.

Some guidance would be much appreciated.

In Python, if you want to skip parameters, you have to name anything after that.

Code: Select all

cmdString = "XYZ"
indigo.zwave.sendRaw(myDevice, cmdBytes = cmdString, sendMode = 0, waitUntilAck = False)


or

Code: Select all

cmdString = "XYZ"
indigo.zwave.sendRaw(nodeId = 4, cmdBytes = cmdString, sendMode = 0, waitUntilAck = False)


Thanks Joe

My test code looks like this:

Code: Select all

# Send a Z-Wave command - open valve to 50%
cmdString = [0x26, 0x01, 0x32]
indigo.zwave.sendRaw(device = dev, cmdBytes = cmdString, sendMode = 1) 


Thanks again for your help

anyone know how to see the results returned from the z-wave command? does that make sense for this function? ... i recall you could get these from indigo.sendRawExtended command using the replyBytes property of the returned result.

[matt (support)]

Unfortunately, for Z-Wave commands the replies are broadcast back asynchronously (except the ACK), so the only way to catch them would be in a plugin that defines the callback to receive all Z-Wave commands. Extended Insteon commands are different and the Indigo Server is able to send those replies to the caller.