How to add Leviton Controllers to Vera Lite?

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I am repeatedly failing to add Leviton scene controllers (RZCS4) to my Vera Lite (latest firmware) network. I did previously succeed to add a couple controllers at the begining of my setup. Due to a strange behavior of the controllers (the scenes would only be trigerred at 10% for all dimmers), I removed the two controllers I had configured. Now, I am trying to add them back to the network without any success. I am also trying to add any of the other 4 controllers I have in the house without a glimpse of success.

I never found a procedure that is specific to the Vera Lite but generally followed the procedure outlined here [url=http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Leviton_Scene_Controller]http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Leviton_Scene_Controller[/url].

Now it just does not work. I add the devices to the network but when they are added, nothing on them can be configured. I get the message ‘Cannot get any information on node’. I tried removing them from Vera, rebooting, resetting the controllers, etc, without any success.

Does anyone have a robust procedure for adding Leviton controllers to Vera Lite? Is there something I am missing?

Any type of feedback is appreciated.

Nick.

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Maybe try the following (untested/from memory):

  • Button 1+3 until blinking amber LEDs.
  • Put Vera in exclusion mode; wait for exclusion to complete.
  • Button 1+3 until blinking red LEDs.
  • Button 1+3 until blinking amber LEDs.
  • Put Vera in inclusion mode; wait for inclusion to complete.

I don’t think the Vera model matters.

Given the apparent issues with 1.5.408 in relation to Leviton controllers, I’ll see if I can test inclusion/exclusion with 1.5.408 tonight.

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Thanks very much for the quick reply :).

I’ll try that first thing when I get home tonight.

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Success! I was not waiting long enough for the inclusion to complete. It takes quite a while in my case (over 1 minute maybe).

Now that I can include the controller I could go back to my tests and do the following observations:

  1. If a scene involves only switches, assigning a scene to a controller button works quite well.
  2. If a scene involves dimmers, the results from pressing the button vary from either setting only a portion of the requested % or a fraction of the devices. The scenes triggered form the Web interface work fast and flawlessly.
  3. As suggested by PurdueGuy, setting a delay on dimmer scenes before the scene gets triggered solves the problem. The dimmers get all set at the requested %. The LED on the controller however does not get set.

Am I alone with this partial scene activation when no delay is set?

Thanks for the help to oTi and PurdueGuy!

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Nice! Thanks for the feedback. I’ll skip on testing it myself then.

Am I alone with this partial scene activation when no delay is set?
It shouldn't behave that way. But, as said, something appears to be amiss with 1.5.408 in this regard. I had no problems with scenes while using a previous version of the UI.