GE Dimmer Switch (14294) showing as 1% brightness when toggled off/on

Configuration Z-Wave
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I have a GE Dimmer Switch (14294) paired with my Hassio setup on 0.83.3, Raspberry Pi 3B+ with an Aeotec Gen 5 Z-Wave stick. Everything works as far as being able to turn the light on/off and change the dimmer setting. However, when I turn the light off and back on, it shows the brightness at 1% but the lights themselves are not at 1% and appear to be at the same brightness value before being turned off.

Any ideas as to why this is occurring? Thanks.

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You need to set refresh_value and delay. E.g.:

zwave:
  ...
  device_config:
    light.XXX:
      refresh_value: true
      delay: 3
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Awesome. Thank you!

Just for my edification, using your example, I’m assuming this just tells Home Assistant or OpenZWave to refresh the status of the node after it’s toggled on or off and the delay is how many seconds after the toggle on/off to refresh. Is that basically what I’m setting? Is there any reason not to set the delay to something like 1?

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Yes, that’s correct. The reason for the 3 sec delay is that the ramp on/off time for a GE dimmer is by default 2.97 sec.

EDIT: BTW, you might find this interesting:

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