Update: As I was about to order the GE remote I decided to call Vera! After 10 minute call (5 of which the tech was logged into my unit), my Veralite is now quickly excluding/including the Jasco switches. Only info he reported to me is that there were some setting that needed changing. The 2 switches I just changed are close enough that I am using power supply rather than battery and a long network cable. Pressed the - button once, toggled the switch, waited 60 seconds as the tech said. Pressed the + button, toggled the switch, waited 60 seconds, logged into web interface and there it was… detected and waiting to be configured! Makes me wish I would have made that call days ago.
Thanks for the Update. Guess I could have saved the $30 but apparently we have discovered a bug in the Vera code. It would be nice if they could implement the fix in one of their releases. Thx.
I ended up having to powerup my old vera3 to get it to exclude. Then I had to move my veraplus to within a foot of this thing to get it to pair, even though other identical devices had no problem pairing from 100 feet away.
I have been struggling with this same issue for two days as well. My VeraPlus Zwave network went dead 6 months after transferring from a vera lite. Per the info on the forums and discussions with Tech support (waiting 3-4 days each correspondence for them to reply) I reset my Zwave network. I am now trying to re include my 5 or so Jadco 4005 switches. As best as I can tell Vera no longer supports Jasco Z wave switches. The Jasco Smart Switch listed is a Zigbee device. I?ll have to try the exclude/include process with the Jasco receptacle as mentioned previously…
Hopefully this helps someone.
I just purchased a GE/Jasco 14291 (ZW4005). I had no idea this was such an old model, but regardless I now have it.
I had the same problem described in this thread. What a painful pain in the butt to get this paired. After trying all the suggestions in this thread I was eventually able to find success by doing the following:
- Move my Vera-Plus within 3 feet of the device (this is so impractical, but whatever)
- Select Devices > Add device > Generic Z-wave Device (neither the GE or Jasco model is listed)
- Put Vera in pairing mode by walking through the Wizard
- Repeatedly press and release the paddle switch (I chose to use the down direction) at a rate of about twice per second.
After about the 8th press, Vera finally detected it.
I don’t know which device to be mad at, Vera or GE’s light switch, but this is really not acceptable.
I was having some of the same issues…had a Vera Lite, upgraded to the Vera Secure, couldn’t get my Jasco switches added to the new Vera…I tried all the device reset options…still nothing. In the end I used the “Add Generic Z-wave device” instead if selecting the specific device…went off like a rocket!! Instant pick up and the switches added in perfectly.
Tacking on to an old thread, I was able to solve the unresponsive light switch problem by combining several of the mentioned solutions. I had two GE Jasco switches that were flagged in Vera as not responding and wouldn’t answer a ZWave signal.
First switch (turned off)
- In Devices, open the switch and click Delete
- Click on Unpair
- Turn the switch on and off 3 times
- Vera recognized it, excluded it and then let me re-add it
Second switch (turned off)
- Unpairing didn’t work, so I deleted it and waited 5 minutes for it to disappear and everything to settle down
- Pull the air-gap switch and wait 5 minutes
- Add a generic ZWave device
- Hold down the top half of the paddle, push in the air-gap, keep holding for a count of 5
- Turn off and on 5 times
- Vera recognized the switch and added it back in.
Hopefully this works for others coming here with the same issue.