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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Aeon Labs Multisensor 4-1 and Vera beta firmware.



Aeon Labs Multisensor 4-1 DSB05 is not possible to include in the Vera as such, right now. But the friendly guys at Aeotec has released a firmware that should solve this http://aeotec.com/partner/z-wave-firmware/viewcategory/7-multisensor 
Or directly to the Europe firmware:
http://aeotec.com/partner/z-wave-firmware/viewdownload/7-multisensor/31-multisensor-firmware-europe

If you take out the batteries you will find the place for the usb cable.
The USB cable that come with the sales package can unfortunately not be used to upgrade the firmware. It can only be used to power it. I had to test several USB cables before I found one that worked and that identified something on the USB port. After that the Firmware upgrade went well.

Then you need to request a beta firmware from mios. So log in to your vera and press the support button and after usually a day or two you will have the link for the beta firmware ui5-1.5.460 or even better the private beta 1.5.532. That is the one I'm using when writing this right now.

Once the firmware upgrade is complete, exclude and re-include the sensor using the full power inclusion explained here http://docs5.mios.com/doc.php?language=1&manual=1&platform=3Pro&page=full_power_inclusion

When you include it I got the information that I should press the black button "between 5-9" times. 

What you probably is ending up with then is a picture like this:

Under that picture is a very annoying "Waiting for device to wake up". What you should do then is to press the button 3 times. And in the settings tab press the "configure node right now". This you might have to repeat a couple of times.
Then you should have a complete set of four devices enabled.

All the devices is  configured from the _4 in 1 sensor. So go to that one and fill in this

Settings tab
Wakeup interval (seconds): 720      (12 minutes) this time is rounded to 4 minute intervals.
Poll this node at most once every: 360     (6 minutes) this should be lower than the Wakeup interval.

This post seem to have been able to help me out with something that both Micasaverde and Aeon Support faild with. I upgraded to the Beta Firmware but was stuck since it was waiting for configuration for ever.... Now I have everything up and running, i hope. I took the freedom to correct the table since I think you had made a typo.

Device Options
Variable 2     1-byte-dec        1    (Wake on battery insert)
Variable 3     1-byte-dec      30    (Motion timeout in seconds)
Variable 4     1-byte-dec        1    (PIR enabled)
Variable 5     1-byte-dec        2   (Enhanced set commands. Use 1 if you associate a switch directly to the sensor)
Variable 111  4-byte-dec   720   (Time between temperature reports)
Variable 112  4-byte-dec   720   (Time between light level reports)
Variable 113  4-byte-dec   720   (Time between humidity reports)

What you then end up with after a new node configuration is something like this:



I borrowed a lot of the text for this post from RexBeckett posts at
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,3831.msg102469.html#msg102469

This was by far the most complex device to get added to Vera.

3 comments:

  1. I connected sensor to USB but see battery icon... Why? http://i.imm.io/16uOk.png

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  2. i would like the sensor to display temp in Celcius? Does anyone know what to change for this?

    thanks

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  3. Change the temp from F to C in the Location tab of the Setup menu

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