I have been using Minoston MP21Z wall plugs for Christmas lights with success. These were paired to a Zoos S2 device which also controls a few GE wall switches. My HA is running the standard VirtualBox image.
I pulled the Minoston plugs out yesterday to use them on another test project but they would not respond to automation. After all the basic checks, I decided to try and remove these from HA and then rediscover them. Problem is, they never show up again.
Is there a place in HA that ignores âremovedâ devices so theyâre not seen again? Any help with where this would be is greatly appreciated.
Zwave devices must be âexcludedâ before they can join any network. (including re-joing a previous network)
Did you remove them by excluding them? If not, you need to use any hub/coordinator and run a general exclude on the device before ot will join anywhere.
@NathanCu , thank you for the quick reply. I followed the Z-Wave JS âRemove Failed Deviceâ option in their panel only. These z-wave plugs do not have a formal âexclusionâ process from the documentation which is pretty limiting.
Do I need another hub of some kind? I think all I have is the Zoos stick at the moment.
You have everything you need already - you just need to perform the right procedure.
âRemove failed deviceâ is not an exclusion - it just makes your ZWaveJS installation forget the device but does nothing to make the device forget it was already joined to a ZWave network - and thus why you cannot rejoin them. (They still think theyâre joined to a network and will not answer another join until theyâre first excludedâŚ)
Use Zwave JS to exclude the devices. Once theyâve been done correctly they should then be able to be included.
@NathanCu thank you for sharing those links. The documentation for the Minoston plugs is pretty poor with no indication of how to enter pairing or exclusion mode. Through trial and error I found out that a quick three button press action seems to activate an appropriate mode. This allowed HA to successfully process the exclude request and also allowed me to re-pair both buttons.
Thank you, @finity for posting the link. My search results kept bringing up links to manuals.plus and these do not even closely resemble the link you shared above. In my haste, I completely overlooked the yellow user manual link on the Minostron.com site. I guess I need to slow down, re-evaluate my search engine.