good morning everyone for some reason I can not get this to be included. any help outthere.
Eli
Did you try to exclude it first?
I have it plugged in i press the power switch but my vera 3 doesn’t speak to it. not sure why?
go through the process to exclude it from your network before you try to add it to your network.
Thanks got it to work last night
Please share how you did this as this forum is for everyone to learn.
Bulldoglowell is exactly right. I run into this all the time with my customers. Z-Wave is a wireless tech, when the signal is out there floating around it can quite often not connect or grab onto the node of the device it is supposed to quite right. Have a rotating office chair in your office? Pair something once with the chair in one position, try it again after spinning the chair and now it won’t pair a second time. Thats because the signal now deflects just a tiny bit and no longer goes exactly where it did the first time. Obviously this is a very simplified scenario of what can happen and probably not technically correct but thats how I think of it when I try to explain why something doesn’t pair or include properly. Plus thats how Father Wireless explained it to me one time in California (he was on the Darpa team and the team that worked on establishing wifi 802.11 back in the 60’s or so).
Bottom line is, exclude it and try again. Then re-include and if it still doesn’t work, exclude and repeat. Sometimes it can take 2-3 tries of this routine, but it WILL work. The first thing I usually do with a new device is to exclude it first (sometimes called resetting) then include or pair with the controller.
@Jamr, and everyone else who needs it, Here is a link on how to execute both inclusion and exclusion modes on a Veralite,
http://faq.mios.com/content/1/29/en/how-to-put-_unit_name_-lite-in-include_exclude-mode.html
Hope that helps!
@haworld - The recommendation by @Bulldoglowell, to exclude the device before including, serves two purposes, but none to do with signal issues.
When a Z-Wave device is included into the Z-Wave network, the network’s home ID is programmed into the device and a node ID is chosen/assigned for the device. If the home ID(unique to every Z-Wave network) is already set in the device and it does not match the home ID of the network you are trying to include into, then the include process will fail.
When you exclude a Z-Wave device, the exclude process resets the device to factory defaults, wiping all programming including home ID, node number, any configured parameters, and routing details. It is then ready to be included into a Z-Wave network.
So, the exclude is intended to clear the home ID and rest the device to defaults. It doesn’t have any impact on signal quality.
@z-waver, thank you very much for that clarification. I always assumed it was due to the wireless signal as I posted, I guess we know what happens when we assume something huh? Anyways thanks for clearing that up, I have been doing the right thing for the wrong reasons! lol