I have several GE 14294 In-Wall Smart Dimmer and one in particular that is showing odd behavior. It’s currently “sleeping.” It’s been fine for almost a year across all upgrades, etc., however it’s recently become unresponsive to controls from HA and reports this way in the GUI.
In the Zwave Control panel, there’s an option under Node config options to set wakeup, which is odd considering none of my other identical switches have this option.
Any ideas about what’s going on with this switch? Is it bad and needs to be replaced? Or is there a way to remove the wakeup variable so it stays in a “ready” state?
It sounds like it’s gone off the rails. I’ve only had 2 / 40 go haywire and that was after I blew the circuit it was directly connected to. One was unrecoverable, the other I had to reset the circuit. I have had to exclude and include a device. I’ve had a door sensor go off the rails too, similar to your issue. I had to factory reset w/o excluding. Then I removed the dead node from HA (I didn’t touch any automations). I then included the device. Reconfigured it and renamed (back to original name). Then everything was happy. With the entity_registry, you just need to delete the “old name” entity from the registry before you rename the “new” dimmer back to the old name.
My switches are about a year old now and I’m starting to notice them doing some funny things like this from time to time. Another one reported dead today as well. So I did the same thing and all is good.
Only difference that I’ve noticed is the node number itself is different, so will I need to do something to ensure I do not run out in the future? I recall there being a limit on the number, so will need to figure out how to reuse node numbers.