AEOTEC Aeon Labs Home Energy Meter Gen5 ZW095 communicating

I included a ZW095 Energy Meter in my system. Its is supported directly by Indigo for kWh and for Watts. However, it did not work properly and never reported automatically. I see there have been several posts and it was recommended to schedule an update on a regular basis to get readings.

I have done some experimenting and I now have it reporting correctly for my purposes without the need to create a schedule.

References:

Engineering Specifications and Advanced Functions for Developers
Lists all the parameters.

Home Energy Meter Gen5 user guide
User guides. Includes bytes for parameters 101-103.

Home Energy Meter Gen5 setting your sensor to report
Includes examples for reporting by setting parameters 101-103 and 111-113 properly.

Below are the Config Values that are reported by Indigo (sorted by me) for my ZW095:

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3:0
4:50
5:50
6:50
8:10
9:10
10:10
101:2
102:1
103:0
111:60
112:3600
113:3600
252:0

Note Indigo does not report Parameter 2 (Energy Detection Mode), 13 (Reporting via CRC-16 Encapsulation Mode), or 200 (Partner ID). Parameter 13 is the critical parameter here. When you include the ZW095 parameter 13 will be set to 1. Change parameter 13 to 0 and ZW095 will report correctly, subject to my caveat below.

I have the 3 parameters set to:

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2:1
13:0
200:0
 

The value initially set by Indigo for parameter 101 was 16131 one time. And 6915 another time. I believe these are incorrect since Indigo has apparently only implemented W and kWh. Setting Parameter 101 to 2 and 111 to 60 asks for watts to be reported every 60 seconds (1 minute). Setting Parameter 102 to 1 and 112 to 3600 asks for kilowatt-hours to be reported every 3600 seconds (1 hour). This is indeed what my log is seeing.

One caveat. I tried setting Parameter 112 to under 60 seconds and it did not work properly. Set at 17 seconds it reported kWh every 54 to 66 seconds. I am speculating this has to do with Indigo's device definition. Matt could comment. I recommend setting Parameter 112 to 60 or greater. I have set Parameter 11 as low as 5 seconds and had the meter report watts correctly every 5 seconds.

I have not experimented with getting values from individual clamps. Nor have I experimented with Z-Wave Command Received and either Match Raw Packet or Any Command to see if I could get much more than just kWh and W, as the meter is capable of. Perhaps another day.

My entire report for the Energy Meter:

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Indigo Z-Wave Version: 2.0.119
Node ID: 63
Model: Home Energy Monitor (ZW095)
Model ID: 0102005F
Manufacturer: Aeon Labs
Manufacturer ID: 0086
Protocol Version: 4.54
Application Version: 1.35
Model Definition Version: 1
Library Type: 3
Class Name: Simple Meter
Class Hierarchy: 04 : 31 : 01
Command Class Base: 32
Command Versions: 20v1 60v4 85v1 86v1 72v1 8Ev1 70v1 32v4 73v1 56v1 98v1 59v1 7Av1 5Ev1
Encryption Status: Supported but not Enabled
Multi-Endpoint Types: 1:(31 : 01), 2:(31 : 01)
Multi-Endpoint Classes: 1:[5E 32 59], 2:[5E 32 59]
Multi-Instance Counts: - none -
Features: routing, beaming, security, energyMeter
Neighbors: 2, 19, 28, 38, 39, 47
Associations: 1:[1]
Config Values: 3:0 4:50 101:2 102:1 103:0 8:10 9:10 10:10 111:60 112:3600 113:3600 6:50 252:0 5:50


Hi Dual,

Do you make use of use of a reporting tool IndigoPlotD?
Have you sorted out which settings are necessary to get a cumulative energy usage graph?