I have a raspberry pi 4 with an Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 Z-Wave running Home Assistant 2022.12.8 Supervisor 2022.11.2 Operating System 9.4 Frontend 20221213.1 - latest and Z-Wave JS
Current version: 0.1.74 and Z-Wave JS UI Current version: 1.4.1. with mostly GE z-wave dimmers. Using the Home Assistant overview page I can control them but they do not seem to stay in sync. In other words the overview page will tell me most dimmers are on when they are in fact off. Which then also follows to homekit. Is there a configuration step I might have missed to keep it in sync? Thanks
Are they always the same dimmer. What is the model no on the devices that aren’t showing the correct state?
It seems like the GE 12724 dimmers are the one that don’t track, the GE 14291 does seem to update it’s status. And I can now see that Z-wave JS has a problem polling with this particular model.
If im not mistaken, GE Jasco 12xxx’s are not ZWave plus and may have issues reporting state.
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ensure that the stick is in the lifeline association group of the switch. If it isn’t, my consider an association there.
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you may need to set ZWave JsUI to poll the switches of that doesn’t work. Don’t go crazy on the interval if you do.
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I have the same issue after upgrading to zwave-js-ui. What I don’t understand is if the device is not updating how come it works when I turn on the device, the status updates in HA fine. Only when I turn it off does it fail to update it’s status in HA.
Anytime you send a device a command it reports that it received the command by sending an acknowledgment command back to the sender. This is built into the protocol and you can not change this. This is why the light updates it state when you turn it on from HA. If you hover over the arrows in the ZWaveJSUI Control Panel you can see in real-time that every time you transmit a message you receive a message.
When you turn a light on from the switch it will only report status updates to devices it has an association with. If no associations are set you will not see a status update in HA. This is because associations define what nodes will receive messages from that device and are used to directly control other devices. To fix this you just need to add an association in the group menu.
That’s interesting. Can you explain why turning on the light with the switch reports back to HA but turning it off doesn’t? I would think both on and off would not work.
When I try to add the group there are no groups to add the device to and I can not find a way to create a group in the UI.
My guess is that you need to reinterview your device. Make sure you check the box that says reset security classes when you reinterview your device. You can not create your own groups you can only add devices to the ones the manufacturers have set.