I have a 3-way switch setup with a GE/Jasco zwave switch along with the matching GE Auxiliary switch. If I use the Aux switch, the light does switch off/on and you can hear the primary switch toggle, but the zwave state does not change in HA. Is this a limitation the GE switch? Is there another brand of switch that would work here?
I have the same issue but I’ve never looked into it before. The event is seen in the OZW logs.
I had (have…) a zwave switch that did that when I first installed it. It would work fine if I switched the switch thru HA but if I switched it thru the attached toggle switch the state in HA wouldn’t update.
I ended up needing to change the “notification status” in the zwave config parameters to “hail” and that solved it.
I don’t use your switches (mine is an Aeotec) but there may be some other similar functionality for yours.
I’ll look into it this week now that I have confirmation that it’s standard with GE aux outlets. I always assumed that my main switch was broken and I’m too cheap to fix it.
How did you made this change?
as the post describes.
go to the zwave configuration panelk in HA and select your node.
Then makes the changes:
Configuration parameter 80 isn’t in the GE/Jasco Z-Wave (non-plus) switches.
Of the 3-ways, I have two ZW4005, one which is a GE 12722, one which is a Jasco 45709 (same switch just different labeling), and a third which is a Z-Wave Plus motion sensor switch with the same auxiliary, which does automatically report.
The issue with the auxiliary switches on the GE/Jasco Z-Wave (non-plus) is that while the main switch does report state changes automatically, using the auxiliary switch does not automatically report the changed state. The model of the auxiliary switch doesn’t matter (I have a new Enbrighten low profile AS2005/GE 47334 auxiliary switch one on one of these), it is the main switch that isn’t reporting the change of state triggered by the auxiliary switch
You can get around this by setting the polling intensity to non-zero for the 3-way switches.
Select the Node, select the switch entity of the node, then set a value for Polling intensity (normally in minutes). This can have a detrimental effect on your network if you poll often for a lot of nodes, so do this only as needed for the Z-Wave (non-plus) GE switches that have 3-way auxiliary switches, and if you find it affects your network, increase the polling intensity (I.E. reduce how often it polls) to 2 or more.
As a note, I have a newer Enbrighten Z-Wave Plus motion switch (ZW4006/GE 26931) with an older Jasco 45710 auxiliary, this does NOT need a polling intensity change as it can automatically detect an auxiliary switch state change.