Kwikset door lock reporting questions

Other Devices & Integrations Door Locks & Sensors
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The door lock in question is the 99110. I have it installed on my boy’s door, with the keypad facing into his room. I can effectively lock him in his room. Thus, when I lock it manually, it’s using the mechanical 1/4-turn knob - not the buttons, and generally not VERA.

I created a PLEG trigger for the lock - that if it’s locked, it turns on his fan. When it’s unlocked, it turns it off. That works just as it should, but only when the lock reports its current status. And that only happens if I use VERA to lock and unlock the door.

Turning the knob does not report a the status of the lock back to VERA. Should it? The deadbolts seem to report mechanical/manual (un)locking, but this doorknob doesn’t.

The poll time is set to 1080 seconds. I suppose I could drop that to every 30 seconds or so, but suspect that would cause other issues? Battery drain?

Ideas?

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I reached out to the seller of the lock (liquidationlocks.com on ebay). They suggested swapping the z-wave board with one from my deadbolts that do report their status. I did, but the problem stayed with the lever lock.

With the deadbolts, I get a near INSTANT update on the VE dashboard when I flip the lock lever. Certainly less than a second. But, with the lever lock version, nothing. It simply won’t change status unless I initiate the (un)lock sequence from the controller.