Problem to associate a device to a button (Heat IT Z-Push Button 8) - Z-wave JS UI

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Hi :slight_smile:
I successfuly migrated to Zwave JS UI.

Now I want to correct the setting of a switch that I have on the wall since 4 years (I was not able to manage group before Z-wave JS UI).

My switch is a Heat-IT Z-Push Button 8.
I have 4 buttons on the left (for ON/activate) and 4 buttons on the right (for OFF/disactivate).

I use this buttons to manage light in my home.

For some LED Light, I use a “Fibaro RGBW”. This device can manage 4 channels for RGBW Led light.

On 1 channel I install the “positive” wire to my LED strip in my kitchen.

But I made a mistake 4 years ago, I associated 1 button to the main switch of the RGB copntroller (Off = all channels are off).
This needs to be always ON.

Then, I would like to associate the button to 1 specific channel.

But In the GROUP settings in JS UI, in the list, I only see the device, not his channels, like I remember with Z-Wave 1.4 (deprecated) 4 years ago.

Did I messed something?

I really need to control each channel, to control different light sources that I have to install in the house.

Thank you for your help.

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For example, the second switch (bottom) is the main switch that I have associated with a button (mistake).

Instead I need to associate the first one (1 channel of the RGBW controller).

I can control channels (lights) from HA.

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I’m not following what you’re asking.

With zwave group association, you associate functionality with buttons. So you’d point a switch to turn on/off a bulb (for example). This would be done through the Sw Multi Start/Stop (Group), on the root endpoint (Node Endpoint).

But if you just have a button, you’d select the group and see what options are available in the group. E.g. Here’s what my scene controller options look like

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there’s many more if I scroll down.

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Thank you. Not sure to really understand…

If I try to add an association to the last button, should I do it like that ?

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But, my device has 8 buttons, I see only 4 “launch”.

I click on ADD but nothing append.

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This is the current stat of my device of 8 buttons :

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I want to delete the Launch 2, but here too, nothing append when I click on the delete button.

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Have you read the manual? It goes into quite a lot of detail about how to setup the association groups, which buttons belong to which group, their functions, etc. Furthermore, as this is a battery-powered device you need to wake it up for any settings to be applied, including association group changes. This is mentioned in section “How to communicate with the device”.

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Of course I have read it, and Iuse few devices since years, I know it.

This morning I wake up and the deletion and the addition are working.

Now I try to do it again (waking up the device first) but nothing append.

Why is there a big delay like that ?

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Probably because the device woke up on it’s own based on the wake up interval?

You need to perform the command(s) first then wake it up. Otherwise if you wake it first it will go back to sleep right away. E.g. set association groups and other settings (commands are queued) then manually wake it up.

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I tried to do it before or after, it was the same.

pushing 1 button was not enough, I had to keep both buttons of the first row (like to associate the device to the network), than it is working.

Thanks a lot for your time :slight_smile: !

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