This is the one with the blue light and the top is always hot and the bottom plug is Zwave. By chance I was able to pair one of the receptacles with VeraLite. I have no clue how I did it. I believe I have tried every combination with no luck when trying to pair the others. I have tried on/off off/on holding the button and just seeing if Vera would just discover it. I am hoping someone can give what I know will be very simple instructions on how to pair these receptacles. Thank you for your assistance.
You only need to press the button whilst Vera is in inclusion mode. It’s likely you need to exclude the others first before reincluding!
I have some of the GE receptacles and have never had an easy time pairing them. I have found that pairing them the old fashioned way by taking Vera to the switch and hitting the z-wave button works better than doing it from the UI. Also I have found them to not exclude properly EVER. So excluding them the old fashioned way first may be necessary. Following these steps I have never had one not pair. I have only gotten one to pair through the UI once.
Good luck!
Thanks for the help. I have been taking the Vera to the switch with no results. I actually thought I had it a moment ago. Looked like the lights flickered but when I brought Vera back online the switch was not found. I did hit the + sign afterwards. I am a bit confused with the exclude. At first I looked at the device on the GUI and found a disable. I am assuming we can exclude a device from the network by not deleting it so it is hidden from Vera. Then pair a new switch as if it was the first one being added because the original one is hidden. Searching on the forum I found a few discussions about exclude. It is in the Add advanced devices section and appears to be for attempting an add without moving Vera. I tried it and it didn’t work.
I am assuming we want to exclude an existing device so it is hidden or not active. Then a similar switch can be added by bring Vera to the switch. If this is what you are saying then where is the exclude checkbox or dropdown? Thanks again for the assistance.
Don’t use the delete icon!
To get Vera into excursion mode, you press the plus button for 3 seconds (I think), or go through the GUI and select it from the add devices menus under advanced.
Many devices are pre-included during factory testing, and so you will have exclude them first!
I was unable to add my GE Duplex Receptacle by doing the “High Power” include without moving Vera. The high-power trick is very convenient, and worked fine on the GE Light switches and dimmers, but NOT the duplex outlet.
So I did the usual dance:
- Unplug the Vera Lite
- Push the Power button (battery logo) and hold it until the Blue LED flashes once.
- Wait about a minute or two for it to fully power up. The orange ZWave light should be flashing slowly.
- Bring the Vera very near the outlet
- Push the “-” button on the unit. Wait for the orange (middle) LED to flash quickly. (At this point, it seems to have about a 50/50 chance of crashing or doing something other than exclusion. It’s also possible it didn’t power up correctly. Once or twice, I had to pull the battery out to restart it. It’s totally flakely in battery mode. Expect to do this a few times before it gets to the right state.)
- Push the button on the duplex outlet. If it worked, it should be excluded, and the LED should pause, then blink quickly.
- Push the “+” button on Vera. If you’re lucky, it went to the include mode and now blinks more slowly. However, expect it to crash and have to pull batteries and start over.
- Once it’s blinking slowly for include, push the duplex button again. If it worked, the LED will pause (off or on), then blink rapidly for a short while. Success!
Now bring the Vera back to power, and go to Advanced “Add devices”. This is sometimes necessary for Vera to figure out devices were added on battery power. Sometimes it picks them up automatically.
Another method that is much easier is to bring the Vera to the Z-Wave device on normal power, wherever it is, using extension cords if you have to. This has worked 100% reliably, even without an ethernet connection. Let it boot up, then push “-”, exclude, then “+” and include.
I don’t know if it’s just my unit or what, but running on batteries is miserably unreliable while AC power boots up normally and works fine every time.
And yes, just about every device came out of the box needing an “exclude before include”.