Associate ZWave switches with lights?

Configuration Z-Wave
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Newbie questions here!

I have an Aeotec Z-Wave Z-Stick Gen5. I’m in an apartment, so I ordered a couple battery-powered ZWave switches to test out: a GOCONTROL WA00Z-1 and a Cooper RF9500AW.

I successfully added both to the ZWave network – Open ZWave Control Panel sees them – but HASS does not see any ZWave switch entities. Shouldn’t it?

I am also at a loss as to how to associate switches with lights. I associated the RF9500AW first, and without any other setup it controls my one existing ZWave light. But I have ordered more lights, and the buttons on the WA00Z-1 don’t do anything when I hit them. But then I haven’t configured anything, so how do I control what happens when I hit a button on a ZWave switch? There doesn’t appear to be a GUI in HASS to do this, and I’ve been poking at OZCP, but it’s pretty obtuse and undocumented.
I can change the group of my light bulb in OZCP, but how do I tell a switch to control a different group? The “group” dialog in OZCP disappears when I select a switch.

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Got it, although HASS still doesn’t see them. Things that helped:

  • Pressing buttons on the switches to make sure they are awake
  • Removing them from the network then using OZCP to readd them instead of the physical control
  • Restarting OZCPClicking Save and Submit a lot
  • Using OZCP’s Send Node Information functions
  • With the switch selected, using the Group function to put the bulb(s) in with it
  • For the WA00Z-1, changing to Group 2 then grouping it with the bulb(s). The manual even says one tap controls group 2, two taps controls group 3.
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sorry I didn’t see this Alucard till now, I use GE 12722 switches.
They just always show up as a switch, then I grab the ID from the HA website and customize them with icons.
Your’s didn’t show up at all after pairing them with the Aeotec?

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Correct, no switch entities are shown in HASS. What are yours named? Perhaps because they are battery powered HASS doesn’t support them?

I did manage to associate them on the Z-Wave level, after much gnashing of teeth.