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Making Satel Opal Plus motion sensor wireless with Fibaro Smart Implant

It is possible to make wire based motion sensor from Satel, wireles using Zwave network. Satel Opal, Opal Plus and Opal Pro have similar case which can hold additional module of Fibaro Smart Implant. On the picture below is on the bottom right side on the case, just below the sensor module. It fits quite well here. Both sensor and implant are powered by 12V DC, so you need to have only 2 wires coming to the sensor intead of 3 or more. It is especially important if you already made in-soil wiring and would not like to change it

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Fibaro Home Center 3 vs OpenHAB

Recently we’ve ordered Fibaro’s HC3 as a replacement for OpenHAB. First because it has integration with Satel alarm system and second that it has native Zigbee support next to default Zwave. OpenHAB also has support for Satel and by using external adapter you can connect Zigbee devices too. So why change OpenHAB to HC3 you can ask. Because it is a commercial product with a support and it feels like a product even if OH has similar or greater capabilites in few areas. Any cons? Sure thery are. Although it supports Nice devices like gates and garage doors, it works

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Turn on/off Samsung SmartThings A/C from Fibaro HC3

In order to integrate your SmartThings devices into Fibaro HC3 you need to create access token and review API documention which can be found here: https://developer.smartthings.com/docs/api/public#tag/Devices/operation/getDevices Then, to send on or off command to your device, grab its UUID, create QuickApp with the following code:

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Connecting WiZ LED lights to Fibaro HC3

In popular DIY markets you can buy Philips WiZ LED light bulbs. They are affordable choice over Hue lights. WiZ lights operate thru WiFi connection and can be integrated easily within OpenHAB system as a wizlighting binding coming from marketplace. However it is not a case in Fibaro HC3 where there is no direct integration. However… you can create your own QuickApp application and insert custom Lua code to communicate over UDP with those LED bulbs. To get status of a bulb (a.b.c.d is a IPv4 address): To turn on the light: To turn off the light: And here we