GE Dimmers, when turned off, don't show off in UI

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Hello,
Knowledge level: I’m fairly new too all of this.
Hass installation: HassIO on RaspberryPi 3
Switches: GE 14294 Z-wave Dimmer switches
Z-wave stick: Aeotech Z-stick Gen 5.

What works well:
If I take the dimmer slider on the hass.io web page and change the level it works great. 60%?boom done. 20%? boom done.

If I change the dim level via the physical switch, it’s correctly reflected in the UI.

What does not work:
If I’m above ~60% brightness and I drag the slider straight to 0% or hit the UI toggle switch to turn the light off, the dim level in HASSIO will appear to get stuck at a non-zero percent and the UI will show the light being on.

Note: The physical switch DOES enter the off state. The LED in the switch comes on and everything. It’s just not reflected in the UI correctly.

I’ve read blurbs about maybe changing the “polling” settings, but I’m not sure If I even have polling configured as it is right now.

Any ideas how to fix this?

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Potential fix?

I’ve add specific entries for each dimmer under the device_config section in the zwave portion of the configuration file.

Based on a friends recommendation setting “refresh_value: true” for each dimmer happens to fix this “sticking” issue, but I don’t know why. Does anyone have documentation available on “refresh_value”?

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