Having installed OpenZWave and successfully set up my UZB key as a controller, the next part of the process was to bridge the OpenZWave library to my Belphanior home automation core. Belphanior communicates with its servants via an HTTP-based RPC protocol; easiest route seemed to be to set up a web server to handle requests from Belphanior and translate them into Z-Wave commands.
OpenZWave is a C++ library; while I can work in C++, for web servers and the like I prefer a less detailed abstraction. Fortunately for me, an Australian firm called Ninja Blocks put together an excellent Go-language wrapper available on their github repo, which was exactly the tool for the job.
Here, I document what I liked about go-openzwave and my experience getting it working with Belphanior.
