I swear I found this solution previously, but now I can’t. I added new switches to my network today - 2 dimmers and an on/off. 1 dimmer and the on/off worked fine, but one of the dimmers didn’t create the Light entity to go with the switch. How can I fix this or manually add the entity?
did you read this
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I hadn’t, thank you. I’m a complete beginner though. I have the impression that isn’t going to work identically to just having the light entity having shown up automatically. How do you specify which Device it links to?
I think the one you want is actually this:
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You define the light in the configuration.yaml and then can use on dashboard.
@Bleak_Chimera it would be helpful if you could explain more about what you have setup. Light type / integration, config used so far / for the ones that work…It’s hard to help without the right info to start with.
Apologies - I am using Zooz Dimmers. Whenever I have added them to my Z Wave network in the past, as well as for 1 of the 2 I added today, they have automatically popped up with both the entity for the Device as well as the switch/light/fan entity automatically. I have never had to add anything to my files manually, and nothing is in my configuation.yaml. This happened once before and I -think- I took the switch off the network and added it again, but I’m hoping there’s a better way to trigger whatever happens to make all of this just show up for me like usual.
All good bro we all were in the same boat at one stage
Which zwave integration are you using? Deprecated, zwavejs, ozw?
I am using Deprecated. I was wary of needing to redo so much of an existing network and all of the names.
have you tried going to the zwave config panel and trying to refresh/heal/test the node to see if that fixes it?
I just ran a test and a heal and got back an error I hadn’t gotten yesterday. It seems fine now, so I am restarting and we’ll see where that leaves me.
So I got clever (maybe?) with it and pulled the relevant code from the zwcfg file to see what difference there was between my two identical dimmers installed at the same time, and quite a LOT came back. I assume they should be pretty much identical besides node ID. Two sections are notably different and one doesn’t exist at all in the dimmer not working properly, the one on the left in red.
Try removing the device from the zwave control panel and then re-adding it. I’ve had similar issues before when adding a new device and not all of the device details seems to get loaded into the controller. Removing it and trying again sorted out the issue.
Just so I’m understanding correctly, do you mean take the stick and go remove the node from the network? Or something else?
You should be able to remove the zwave device from the network without removing the stick, just using the GUI.
Thank you all for your help. What I ultimately had to do was:
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Remove the switch from the Z-Wave network. This could only be accomplished using the stick, the GUI did not work. (The GUI has never worked on this for me, I have always had to use the stick.)
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Remove the Z-Wave (Deprecated) integration and reinstall it
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and so also rename all of my things and re-do all of my automations and such… but that is fine, I wanted to do that eventually anyway since now I will make nicer looking dashboards.
As a note I tried moving over to Z-Wave JS, but I wasn’t able to get the integration to connect. That will be a problem for the future.