Fibaro Smart Implant on Z-Box Hub

Anyone have experience using the Fibaro Smart Implant Z-Wave device on the Z-Box Hub?

What’s your use case? How was the ease of implementation? :thinking:

Not on the Z-box hub, but I use the Fibaro Smart Implant to monitor battery voltage on my 12v DC-UPS battery bank.

I lose utility power frequently in the mountains and my Internet, VOIP, and security cams all run on the DC-UPS.

Nice to have a “fuel tank gauge” to know when it’s approaching Low Voltage Disconnect, so I can remotely turn on generator if needed while I am out.

I’m sure the same use case could be used on a Z-box hub

Once the correct driver was located the setup was smooth, the stock driver in HE C8 Pro didn’t work and one that a user created and posted worked perfectly.

The Analog inputs are used to monitor batteries

The outputs are used to select charge rate normal / high, and reset button on charger.

Also 4 zen16 multi-relays for load shedding, and zen-plug for energy monitoring of charger.

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Anyone else using the Smart Implant? I just received mine… :wink:

Use it for temp measureing with 4 ds18b20 (3 for waterheater and 1 for outdoor) :smiley:
And one other for my garagedoor opener, (1output for impulse to open/close and the 2 input for status on the garage door)
It is alot of user caes for this device! :smiley:
(but on a Fibaro HC3)

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There sure seem to be a lot of possibilities. I should probably also search the Fibaro Smart Home Forum to find out what people are using it for on other platforms, like your HC3. Thanks for the reminder–I already have a login there, too! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Anyone have experience using the Smart Implant’s built-in temperature sensor on a Z-Box Hub? Mine reads about 15 degrees higher than the nearby ZSE11 Q Sensor or an attached DHT22 temperature/humidity sensor sitting right next to it on the desk.

Also does anyone know if it can be configured so the two inputs can report as a door “opening” sensor? I don’t find the documentation nearly as good as what Zooz provides for its sensors. :thinking:

The temp reading is the “internal temp” so isnt usful for any controlling other then watching the temp of the device :wink:

And by using it as a door sensor you mean to change icon or role maybe?

This is mine for the garagedoor input 1 is triggered when the gate is fully open and input 2 is triggered when it is fully down :slight_smile:
and then it is used in a QA with the garagedoor/shutter device to get the state of the garage door like this:

Btw any1 know how many Quickapps you can have on the zooz box? :thinking:

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Dug in a little further today and found the solution–it wasn’t obvious to me, so perhaps this may help someone who’s trying to do the same thing.

When added to the Z-Box Hub, the FGBS-222 shows up as a flock of devices–here’s what it looks like on my hub with all devices un-hidden…

Since I was interested in using the two devices shown as Door Sensors (which show up as Category ‘Home security,’ Type ‘Opening sensor’ on the General tab for each device) connected to physical magnetic contact sensors on each of my two garage doors, I needed to make 85.1 & 85.2 the active devices connected to the IN1 and IN2 input wires.

But, how to get to Parameter 20 & 21 of the device, where the input connections are “wired” to the appropriate input device? :thinking:

This post on the Fibaro Forum gave me a hint as to why Parameters 20 & 21, which set input type, don’t show up under the ‘Parameters’ tab of the FGBS-222 Smart Implant on the Z-Box Hub–it’s functionality is built in to the ‘Advanced’ tab of the base device, in this case, 85.0 FGBS 222 on my hub. (Note that it’s not possible to shortcut this by adding these settings to a .json parameter file–apparently it is special functionality built into the hub firmware and you can’t force it to appear under ‘Parameters’ as one might expect.)

After selecting Binary Input NC (a normally closed switch, a selection for which you must scroll to find) if populates the adjacent field to show the two sensor names: 85.1 and 85.2 in my case. Click on the pulldown to the right of the sensor name to select whether you want an Opening sensor (door) or other choices such as a window, motion, flood, or whatever.

Here’s the resulting setup of my Smart Implant with the two door sensors, internal temperature sensor, and an external temperature & humidity sensor from a DHT22 sensor I had wired to the device prior to pairing.

As @Brors94 noted, above, the internal temperature sensor is pretty useless! It can be ‘Hidden’ to keep it out of the way, if you desire. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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Ah, That is right! :smiley:

I should have mentioned the parameters and the advanced tab for the smart implant :smiley:

The local or remote protection is also a parameter but is hidden and added to the gui instead :slight_smile: Just for the info :smiley:

Btw @Barkis is it a limit on how many Quickapps you can install on zooz box? :smiley:

Good question, @Brors94, I don’t know. Perhaps @Sara or @BartekZooz can answer that?

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