Help connecting Trane Thermostat

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Hello all,

I can’t get my Trane thermostat to connect to my Vera Lite.

I wonder if my “include” button is malfunctioning as I have problems connecting Vera to my zwave light switches …

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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[quote=“newveraliteowner, post:1, topic:174418”]Hello all,

I can’t get my Trane thermostat to connect to my Vera Lite.

I wonder if my “include” button is malfunctioning as I have problems connecting Vera to my zwave light switches …

Any suggestions?

Thanks![/quote]

Hi –

How far is your thermostat from your veralite?

How did you try to include the termostat? Did you bring vera to the thermostat?

Do you have any z-wave “repeaters (non battery z-wave devices)” between the thermostat and vera?

What is your firmware version?

Don
Hi

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Hi Don,

I am very new to this so I will try to answer your questions the best I can.

First, the firmware version. Where would I find it? I don’t see it on the Vera Lite …

As for connection, what I did was, I brought the Vera Lite right next to the thermostat. I turned it on, and then pushed the “+” button until the light started blinking.

This is the thermostat I have (the prior homeowner installed it): Amazon.com.

There is no function on the thermostat for connecting to a controller. The only question it asks is whether I want to disconnect its zwave function, and my answer to it was “no.”

So what I did was, I just tried to push any button (many different buttons as I could) on the thermostat, hoping that it would send a signal to the Vera and connect to it. No such luck.

I am wondering if there is something wrong with my Vera.

I could not get it to connect with the many GE Dimmer light switches that the prior owner of the house installed throughout the house.

The weird thing is, I was able to “exclude” the GE dimmer switches. By that I mean, I put the Vera next to all the switches, turned it on, and pushed the “-” button until it blinked. I then hit the light switch, and the light on the Vera flickered rapidly, which I assume meant that I unpaired it.

When I tried to pair it using the “+” button, nothing happened.

So I am wondering if there is something wrong with the “+” button??

Thanks very much for your help!!

Dan

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From the main screen of your thermostat you should see “menu” for the bottom left button. Press it to access the sub menus.
You can then scroll, using the up/down buttons, to “zwave install”

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Hey Fire 708

Yeah, I tried that but got only this question:

“Remove thermostat from Z-Wave network?” Press up for “yes” and down for “no.”

But there is no other question on this submenu. For instance, shouldn’t there be a question for “do you want to connect to the Z-Wave network” or “connect” or something like that?

Try to it out, I did press “no” to the question posed, and it went back to the previous menu.

For the hell of it, I tried “yes” and a little hourglass showed up. And that was it. When I went back to the same menu, it asked me the same question: “Remove thermostat from Z-Wave network?” Press up for “yes” and down for “no.” I felt like I was on Groundhog Day.

Very frustrating …

Thanks!

Dan

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Did you exclude the thermostat? The thermostat still thinks it’s part of an existing zwave network. Put the thermostat in exclude mode and Vera in exclude mode. You can not pair the thermostat until it’s properly excluded. That is why you are not seeing the include option.

  • Garrett
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Thanks Garrett!! That worked. But I am still frustrated with my Vera. http://forum.micasaverde.com/Smileys/classic/sad.gif

It works like a charm in the exclude mode. I push the exclude button, the light comes on. I push the button on the Zwave device (in this case the thermostat, but yesterday the GE dimmers), and the light rapidly blinks, showing that the two devices are speaking to each other.

The include mode is entirely difference story. It’s very fickle. If I hold the include button down even a split second too long, Vera shuts off.

More importantly, the Vera does not “speak” to any of my Zwave devices, including the thermostat.

Do you think there is something wrong with my Vera???

Thanks!!

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Also …

I just tried this.

After I excluded the thermostat, I went back to the thermostat with my Vera.

The thermostat asked me whether I want to connect. I put the Vera in exclude mode, and then clicked “yes” on the thermostat.

The light flickered rapidly, showing that it was speaking to my Vera.

Since I am in exclude mode rather than include mode, the two are not going to connect. But does this mean my include feature is malfunctioning?

Thanks again.

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One thing I did,while including my scene controller and lock,was to use a long Ethernet cable. I set Vera near the controller and then used my laptop to access UI5via WiFi. This made it much easier to include and exclude as I was positive which mode Vera was in.

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I am having this problem with an open box thermo that was included in someone elses network. Any idea how to get it to forget its old network?

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Did you try excluding it with Vera?

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i realized i was doing a newbie error and putting vera in exclude mode wrong. When i took my vera right up to it, pressed battery, let it get stable and then hit - , then excluded it worked (light fluttered).