I own a GE/Jasco 45600 Z-Wave controller, which I would like to continue to use (a button oftentimes is quicker to access than the iPhone-App/Website)
The web-site at wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/ZWave_Add_Controller says that I should “choose the event ‘A Scene is Activated’”.
However, I could not find that option where it was supposed to be. Assuming the new U/I calls this “Triggers” and I am supposed to configure it there:
I noticed that only “A scene is activated” (On-Button) works, “A scene is de-activated” (Off-Button) appears to do nothing.
This may be due to a peculiar behaviour of the GE/Jasco 45600.
However I also noticed that after a few changes, it now happens that buttons that are NOT configured still trigger action.
Perhaps the software / dongle forgot to erase the old associations?
Lights erratically go on or off triggered by On-Buttons that are no longer configured.
How can I get the device to simply have no function associated with the Scene buttons configured, while having the ones that are configured do what they are supposed to do?
Does this topic describe what you are experiencing?
Hi,
A very interesting & peculiar observation:
From my memory, it sounds like the description is consistent with my experiments.
Tonight, when I’m home, I have to run a few experiments to verify this and will let you know.
Also, my remote never “learned” about the lights / z-wave devices controlling the light.
So the theory that the remote control + the Vera device could be triggering those devices separately does not hold in my case, since the remote control is agnostic about them.
I never transferred codes to the remote as secondary.
The Vera/secondary controller relationship is not how I imagined it would be.
This link explains that relationship:
http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/ZWave_Add_Controller
Information about the devices in scenes that you transfer to your remote also will be transferred to your remote and the remote will attempt to manage those devices, itself. And Vera will oversee the whole process and jump in where action seems required. It seems that may be where things are going wrong.
I made the following observation tonight:
Button #8 (activated) is programmed to trigger scene “Evening”.
Button #9 (activated) is programmed to trigger scene “Bedtime”.
Button #5 (activated) behaves like #8 (although it has no programming / triggers).
Button #6 (activated) behaves like #9 (although it has no programming / triggers).
All other buttons are not programmed.
All Off buttons have no effect (whether there is a trigger or not).
Again, this remote controller never received any of the codes by means of transfer or “Add”.
It acts as a secondary controller.