Leviton VRCZ4-M0Z

Other Devices & Integrations Lighting & Load Control
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@legend99,

The events in the log are all pretty close together in terms of time. How many times did you press the button and which side (on or off)?

If possible, you could try to wipe out the scenes for one of the buttons and then create a single ‘on’ scene that turns on a single VRI06; use [tt]A scene is activated[/tt] + the appropriate button number as a trigger, rather than assigning the scene to a button on the [tt]Scenes[/tt] tab of the controller. Just to see if that works.

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@oti

Tried that. Nothing happened. Removed the controller and re added it, nothing seems to work.

Today I submitted a new ticket for a problem that dates back to almost 2 years. Will see what happens.

Cheers

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Mmm. Does the info on your controller look like the following?

[font=courier]Capabilities 211,134,0,2,1,0,L,R,|45,114,115,119,124,130,133,134,145,
Version 1,2,97,0,2
Manufacturer Leviton
Model RZCZ4[/font]

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Show like this. Do not look at the date, it is showing I configured it back in 1969, but I configured it yesterday. As for Model today it is showing a VRCSS, I have it come up sometimes as a RZCZ4

Capabilities 146,134,0,2,1,0,L,|45,114,115,119,124,130,133,134,145,
Version 7,2,67,0,2
Manufacturer Leviton
Model VRCSS
Neighbors 1,67,68,73,76,77,78,80,85,97,101,102,121,
Configured at 31-DEC-1969 19:00

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Update:

Problem still exists. Tech support is looking into the issue.

Logs show that command is sent to Vera, however the light does not turn on.

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[quote=“legend99, post:25, topic:170956”]Update:

Problem still exists. Tech support is looking into the issue.

Logs show that command is sent to Vera, however the light does not turn on.[/quote]

@legend99

I just had some similar problems that I resolved… I had one of my RZCZ4 get a stuck button (actually I had this on two separate units). Last night none of my zone controllers were working correctly and I discovered my wife had used great stuff to fill some cavity next to the controller and it expanded and pushed out one side a bit. This cause one switch to be ‘on’ all the time. This seemed to kill Vera’s response to all my controllers… (maybe flooding the zwave?) Is it possible either on this unit or another that one of the witches is stuck either in on or off mode? Just a thought…

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One of my zone controllers out of the blue just started doing something odd.

I have one “off” button firing a scene. It used to work just fine. When I hit it, Vera sees the press. And I see the “SetTarget” commas but nothing happens for the one device in the “immediate” Elat section. But all subsequent delayed commands work!

Everything was fine when I have the first device on a GE switch, but I just replaced that wih a Leviton switch. Creating a new delay of “1 second” seems to have resolved it.

I think there might be some interaction with the way Vera attempts to program a scene into a Leviton controller and a scene capable switch that is causing unwanted interactions.

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Here is a thought:
The switch might get an “Off” from the controller since I did assign it to an off button. And then the Vera On command is so soon after the Off, that the switch disregards it??

Also, is it possible that Vera programmed the scene into your zone controller in scene mode, and the switch/controller think the light should be Off for the scene?

Maybe try this? Hold the switch on the controller that you assigned to On until it starts rapidly blinking (a few seconds). Then turn the light on via it’s paddle switch. Then click the zone controller button again, to program in the state.

One of my controllers kept getting messed up by Vera every time it was configured. So I set it to “No” under “Configure” and set the scenes manually. Hasn’t been messed up again (yet!).

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FIXED!!!

Finally after countless months, I am happy (if not ecstatic) that MCV has fixed the issues with my controller.

The problem was that I was setting scenes that required the scene lights to be set at 100%. However when MCV set the scene lights to 90%, everything worked flawlessly.

Big thanks to MCV and Dennis their tech support for working this out.

PS I know it is a workaround and not a complete fix but at least I can use the 5 controllers that I have now.

Thanks again Dennis!

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Glad to hear you got a workaround. I’m surprised it took a while, since we have another thread on this.
There is definitely a problem with dimmers and the Leviton scene/zone controllers lately.

Other threads here and here.

Bug report here, filed in July.

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Glad MCV Tech Support essentially acknowledged the issue folks have been reporting here for a while now.

BTW, if you go to the [tt]Advanced[/tt] tab of the scene, you can set any dim level you want. You could put 98% there. (Don’t do 99%, or 100%).

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ooops Sorry about that guys.

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Someone knows the difference between zone and scene controller…

my vrcz4-m0z came with ZONE CONTROLLER checked and I can see a box to check with SCENE CONTROLLER…

thanks and sorry open something so old.

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[quote=“Piwtorak, post:33, topic:170956”]Someone knows the difference between zone and scene controller…

my vrcz4-m0z came with ZONE CONTROLLER checked and I can see a box to check with SCENE CONTROLLER…

thanks and sorry open something so old.[/quote]
Zone controllers have distinct “off” buttons, which makes it easier to turn all the devices associated with that scene off, whenever you want (regardless of LED state).

With scene controllers, you can only turn the devices off if the LED for that button is on. However, since the LED may never turn on in some cases, you can’t ever turn it off.

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Is there a way to associate scene controllers, so they will track if a scene was activated?
Example:

2 scene controllers. One at entrance and one at second floor.
I toggle a scene “Welcome” at entrance keypad and I want to toggle off “welcome off” at second floor keypad. Is it possible?

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Yes, if you’re using the Leviton Zone controller, the light for the button will turn on/off based on whether the associated scene is on/off, even if the scene is activated/deactivated not using the button on the controller.

Also, I find it more flexible to assign the scenes to the buttons through triggers on the scenes, rather than through the advanced tab on the controller.

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I have the scene controller. It does not seem to track when the scene is activated by the app, for example.
I will buy a zone controller and post the results.
Thank you

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[quote=“mallom, post:37, topic:170956”]I have the scene controller. It does not seem to track when the scene is activated by the app, for example.
I will buy a zone controller and post the results.
Thank you[/quote]
Is it one of the newer scene controllers? (last couple years, I think). Only the newer ones allow external LED control. Mine does.

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Mine is new (i think)

Bought it less than 3 months ago

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This is a ZONE controller, not a SCENE controller. There is a difference. Unfortunately, Vera treats it as a SCENE controller. I have yet to find a suitable Z-Wave ZONE controller, that would function like the X-10 XPD and Leviton 164xx keypads. When Vera starts treating this device as a ZONE controller, then we will have caught up to the advancements that X-10 delivered!