Easy way to re-associate forgotten switch?

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One of my scene controllers was re-set during a power failure such that it was no longer associated with the Vera network. I was able to add it back to the network by following the normal inclusion procedure, and I noticed that it came back with a different device ID. I then reconnected the new device to the correct scenes and deleted the orphaned device. Is there a better way to do this if it happens again? Fortunately this was the only device in my network that was affected. Thank you.

Marc

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Hmm wonder if deleting the device first would have free up that “slot” and then when re-included it would have taken the same id. Not sure, just thinking out loud.

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Wow, Over a year now and no answer to this?

I Just lost 6 devices when my power was out. Now I have un unbearable task of reprograming, devices, scenes and schedules. My crappy X10 system never did this to me. Somebody tell me the how this is to be dealt with. Would restoring from a backup saved on my computer have overcome this?

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You’ll always get better answers when you give clear details about your problem. Which Vera, which firmware version, what devices(make/model) have failed, what happened prior to failure.

Z-Wave devices should not lose their association due to power outages. If it ever happens, it would be very rare. I highly doubt that 6 nodes lost their association at the same time, unless your outage was due to a lightning strike or something equally catastrophic. There are cases where Z-Wave devices become unresponsive because they are in an unstable state, possibly due to flickering when the power was restored, or Vera’s routing may be temporarily broken making them unreachable until a heal operation is performed.

The better approach for recovering unresponsive devices after a power failure is to:

[ol][li]Power cycle Vera.[/li]
[li]Power cycle the “failed” nodes by switching the breaker.[/li]
[li]Allow a few minutes after power cycling these devices and then perform a network heal operation.[/li]
[li]After a successful heal, reload Vera and clear your browser cache.[/li]
[li]If the problem persists, try restoring from the previous night’s backup.[/li][/ol]

Re-including the devices will generate a new node ID, as if it were a new device and will require you to redo the devices configuration from scratch. Re-including the device should be a last ditch effort after all other options have failed.

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Agree with Z-waver. I’ve had incidents where switches and dimmers became unresponsive, no matter what I tried. Simply operating the air-gap switch on the device (essentially rebooting it) and waiting a few minutes put everything back to normal.