Ability to change home ID

[regulatre]

I would like to request the ability to change the value of the "homeid" parameter that is stored on the device. Out of the box the value doesn't match the existing network and the instructions for the device indicate that the value can be changed through software so I'm hoping it would be an easy feature to add.

Thanks!

[bjornreppen]

+1

[the-louie]

Any thought around this? I have a scenario where I need to replace devices on remote locations and it would be a lot easier if I could prepare the device with the remote home-id (and configure the remote end over the net) and send it by mail instead of having to go out myself and include it manually.

[ekarak]

the homeid is a hard-coded value in the zwave controller and cannot be changed.

[ekarak]

your best bet is to have sth like https://github.com/OpenZWave/node-red-contrib-openzwave controlling your OpenZWave network and then issue a remote 'addDevice' command via Twitter (or Facebook, or MQTT, you name it)

[the-louie]

Issuing the add/remove commands isn't really a problem. The problem is to put the device in inclusion mode in the same time as the gateway.

Is the home id really hardcoded? Think I saw something in the Zwave-me documentation that it's possible to replace a dead gateway, wouldn't that mean adopt the old gateways homeid?