I am relatively new to Home Assistant and am trying to migrate over from Smartthings, but I am also testing a few crucial devices to make sure the most important things are supported. It’s a big implementation with over a hundred devices, mostly Zwave…
I was trying to use the Z-Wave JS UI, but I am facing an issue with creating associations between two MCOHome MH-S314 (4-button) switches. I have plenty of these and also MH-S312 (2-button) switches around the house… And quite a few of these are essential 2-way or 3-way switches, e.g. lighting up stairways and corridors at different ends.
The first thing I noticed is that these switches are not updating their status on Home Assistant when used (toggled) manually. I created some association at some point that fixed this, but unfortunately, I also removed that association and when I recreated it, it no longer worked - pretty baffling. This is already a big issue. As an example, sometimes we use these switches to activate a pump (along with the light), there are many cases where toggling a switch activates something in the system. So that is my problem number 1: without the system realising a manual toggle has occurred, it is pretty much useless to me.
Problem number 2 is that I cannot create switch-to-switch associations (for 2/3-way lighting). In Smarthings in was easy because I used a custom driver that allowed me to enter associations per button, and then enter the target in the format node:endpoint, e.g. 78:3. But now - I am confused…
The above is the first dropdown for the Node Endpoint. Perhaps it is because of my inexperience, but I understood Endpoint to be the button number on the switch (since it is 4-button). But choosing Endpoint 1, 2, 3, or 4 all have me the following problem in Group: No data available.
If I choose Root Endpoint as the Node Endpoint, I get the following Groups (I really do not understand the concept of groups - I tried reading up on this but without a concrete example I will never understand, it seems .
I have so many questions at this point, especially what is a group, and what are those groups called “Unnamed group 3” and “Unnamed group 4”, and can I name them?
Finally I tried configuring it like this:
I clicked ADD, I refreshed, I tried the switch, nothing happens at all - Home Assistant doesn’t;t know and neither does Kitchen Switch 1.
Can someone kindly illuminate me on whether I am doing anything wrong or simply whether it is not supported well enough in Z-Wave JS? Please note the switches absolutely and most certainly do support associations - I have plenty of them working with associations reasonably well on Smartthings.
Many thanks in advance.