Enerwave ZW500D Dimmer switch Association

Other Devices & Integrations Lighting & Load Control
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I had a unique problem at a relatives house so I told them I could fix it with a few more z-wave switches. They had 3 way dumb dimmers on each side of their bed that turned off their own in wall night stand lights. His side and her side both go to separate slave switch’s at the front of the room. She wants to cut his light off from her side because he falls asleep with the light on and she has to get up and walk around. I looked up switches that could also turn other devices off by association and found these.

I’ve installed 2 enerwave ZW500D & Zw3k three way dimmer kits, and am trying to them working.

The manual says:

Association command class
ZW500D-N can support single association group with up to 5 target nodes by using command class
COMMAND_CLASS_BASIC. When a destination(target) device is assigned to ZW500D-N by
“Association Group”, it will be activated and deactivated each time by a double-press of the ZW500D-N’s button.
For example, one short press of the ZW500D-N’s ON/OFF button will turn Load ON/OFF. Double-pressing the
button will turn ON/OFF the load connected to ZW500D-N AND the target device simultaneously.

What I’m trying to accomplish is a double click to turn both lights off(I know I can do this with PLEG I’ve done similar at my house but for the sake of learning something new I would like to do it the “Right way” that uses the built in functionality). My problem is how do I do this?
There is no other documentation that I have found. If its running some script or advanced scene control I might figure it out by my self(and hours of forum reading and hit and miss) but that could take me time. I’m not new to vera(I’ve had one in my house for almost 3 years) and I’m not new to scripting(write python, powershell, bash for work) but I’ve never dove that deep into vera, Luup or scene scripting(I’ve got another project to connect my alexa to vera thru my raspberry pi, but im just starting that using this repo GitHub - adp162/alexa-vera-bridge: Integrate Amazon Echo with Vera home automation controller)

Anyway if anyone can help it would be appreciated. Either links to a relevant thread or personal experience would help. I’ve reached out to Enerwave so I’ll see what response I get form them. I’ll be documenting all I do to get it working since I couldn’t find any relative information on doing this

Jon

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They don’t give any information in the manual about which groups they use, so I’ll assume Group 1. To create an association using Group 1 in Vera UI7:

Go to the Device Options tab of the ZW500D-N
In the Add Group field, type a 1 and click Add Group.
Next click on the Set button that appears.
Find the device that you would like the ZW500D-N to control(associate), in this case the other light’s ZW500D-N, and check the box next to it.
Click Save, at the bottom of the page.
Click Back to Z-Wave settings.
Click Apply.

At this point Vera should configure the device with the association. You can confirm that the device has been configured with the association by returning to the Device Options tab. The Current value should be the same as the Set to value(the node ID of the “slave” device).

If the configuration does not appear to have been done, you can try using the configure node right now button on the settings tab.

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Update:

Thank you @Z-Waver your instructions worked exactly as stated.

For my initial inclusion of the switches I used the In Wall Dimmer(Linear WD500Z-1) because there is no Native inclusion option for the Enerwave ZW500D and these two switches are very similar as far as options go. This worked with no problems and by following the above instructions by Z-Waver I was able to associate the two switches easily.

I now have switches that control either itself(one click) or both switches(two Clicks) on or off.

The one thing I did notice is they don’t report their status very quickly, it often takes over a minute before the vera ever reflects a change in state. I originally had a scene to turn the second light off but it often took way to long which the association fixed(with an extra click) . If you control it via a scene controller(aeon minimote) or vera it responds instantly and the status changes in vera quickly, but do it from the switch and it could take a while.

Over all these seem like good switches. I did have to put 2700k bulbs in to get them to work, the 3000k would just flicker.