Vera doesn’t know how to properly setup Leviton Zone Controllers so that the dimming function work and it can’t link the buttons to a device as it was intended. As a result, I had to use the Leviton remote to setup my system. Now I can’t get Vera online as a secondary…the remote won’t transfer info to Vera using it’s ZWave transfer button.
Any ideas.
Tim
Include controller on the Leviton remote and Copy from Master on ther Vera. Make sure you have the Automatically Configure turned off in the Vera or you will lose all the Zone Controller programming you just did.
I have couple 4-button Zone controllers and used them in both ways - configured by Leviton Master Controller and using Vera as secondary, as well as using Vera as Primary controller and letting it configure Zone controllers. Everything seems to work very well, including dimming function. The benefit of using Vera as Primary is to be able to associate non-Leviton and non-scene-capable devices in the Zone/Scene.
I just downloaded new Vera firmware and it is allowing the Vizia Remote to be a Master while Vera is a secondary. None of the labeling came through but I can fix that!
How did you get Vera to link the Zone Controller to the switches…only scene assignments came up on my Vera
Regards
Tim Alls
Any change on the Leviton scene controller behaviors with Vera? Does this version of the firmware allow for direct assignment of lights to the buttons? I use Think Essentials to assign the Leviton b/c the Vera scenes don’t work well with these controllers in the older firmware. Inconsistent and glitchy.
Not really wanting to spend hours finding out it behaves the same as FW Version 1.1.1047, and have to reprogram my entire network of 20+ devices from scratch again… 
Anyone???
The new firmware allows Vera to be a secondary to the Leviton handheld controller. I recommend using a handheld as a master and running Vera as a secondary…works fine and I am using GE dimmers with Leviton Zone controllers and Leviton Scene controllers.
Regards
Tim Alls
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Recent Vera firmwares (not sure if it was in 1047 of added after) take care of making proper associations between a Scene/Zone controller and devices (switches/dimmers). You still need to add them through Vera Scenes, but for Scene-capable devices (mostly Leviton), Vera will set associations directly. For non-Scene-capable devices, commands will have to go through Vera itself. There is no need to use Leviton Primary Controller for setup, like before.
I have the firmware from a few day ago installed and I still do not see they ability to link the Leviton Zone rocker switches directly to switches. All I see is scene assignments…please let me know if you are using a beta version…
Thanks
Tim Alls
AllSeas Yachts
[quote=“TimAlls, post:8, topic:167516”]I have the firmware from a few day ago installed and I still do not see they ability to link the Leviton Zone rocker switches directly to switches. All I see is scene assignments…please let me know if you are using a beta version…
Thanks
Tim Alls
AllSeas Yachts[/quote]
Vera uses Scenes to control groups of lights. I believe what you are referring to is what Leviton calls “Areas”.
If you assign notifications within the light itself I believe you can assign the notification as a “scene”- but it won’t show up as a scene elsewhere and clutter up your interface.
This is assuming you can get the Leviton controllers to work properly when Vera is a primary.
I am using Think Essentials with the USB stick, and the lights just don’t translate well when I transfer primary control to Vera and let her reconfig the settings. Preventing Vera from reconfiguring the scene controllers seems to be the key.
Disaster always strikes otherwise for me.
Tonight I am redoing my system again b/c of this glitch.
My family will be very happy when their light switches work again. Eventually.
I have two Leviton 4-button scene controllers and I am able to set them with Vera-2 running F/W 1183. One of them behaves almost exactly as expected, including dimming up and down. The other turns on fine, but takes about a minute to turn off (it dims down very SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWLY). On/off from the switch controlling the only light in the scene takes 3 seconds either way, the programmed ramp rate.
What neither of these do is behave properly regards the LEDs. According the Leviton, when a scene is activated the LED should glow green and stay green until any lamp in the scene changes its status. The LED glows green and stays green for about 5 seconds then turns off, indicating that the scene is now deactivated. As a result, the next press on the switch just runs the activation scene (which does nothing since the light is already at the active scene level), and the LED repeats the short green glow cycle. While the LED is green, if you push the button again, a scene deactivation event fires and the light fades to off.
This behavior has been the case at least since FW 1047 which is what I was running when I bought the two controllers.
I have tried to turn on the LEDs on both units using the simple UI described in the Wiki and with Luup events. Neither approach affected the LEDs on either controller in any way.
With the new software, my scene controllers are working correctly for the first time since I got my Vera two years ago. When I activate a scene, the LED comes on. If one of the devices in the scene gets turned off, the scene is no longer fully active, so the LED goes off. If I turn the device back on, making the scene “complete” again, the LED comes back on.
Because the switch is “aware” of the scene, I no longer have to double-tap the buttons to get things to work like I had to before. I love my Leviton 4-scene controllers!
Can you tell me how you configured the 4-scene controllers to make them work correctly with (I presume) F/W 1183. In my case, I added the controller and added two scenes: On and Off. Each of these has a single command that turns a single device (a dimmer switch) on and off, respectively. There are no events or timers or anything else associated with each scene, just a single command in each.
In the controller setup, I went to the Scenes tab, checked the box to have the LEDs automatically controlled, and selected the On scene for button 4 activation and the Off Scene for button 4 deactivation. When I press button 4, the light comes on as does the LED. However, the light stays on but the LED goes out after about 5 seconds. Then I have to press button 4 twice to get the light to go out.
I’ve tried lots of things (putting activation/deactivation events in the scenes, taking them out of the Scene tab for the controller and leaving them in, etc.). I have removed, reset and re-installed the scene controller several times and re-did the scenes. Nothing changes the behavior noted above.
Vera-2 running 1183.
Yes, V2/1183. Mine are set like yours - scene indicator lights on/off box checked, and a scene for the devices “on” and a corresponding scene for the same devices “off”. Some of the scenes control only one device, but most of them control several or many devices. I’m not using mine to activate any timed or event-based scenes. Dimming works on the scenes that control dimmers.
I’m wondering if you need to do a “configure device right now” after you have it set the way you want it? Or maybe repair your network to update your neighbor lists?
@CMRancho & ridgecat:
I also am having trouble with getting my Leviton scene controllers setup. I am able to get it to turn on and dim but cannot get it to shut off again. I’m sure its a user error and not a harware error, but I’m not able to figure out what it is I’m doing wrong. Any helpful ideas?
If you have an “on” scene set up for button on and a corresponding “off” scene assigned to the off position of the same switch, then it’s up to Vera to run the scene and update the controller button’s LED. If it’s green, then the switch is aware the scene is running, so the next push will run the scene for the off position, in this case the second push. If the LED isn’t lit, then the switch isn’t aware the scene is running. Previously, this is how mine were (mal)functioning, so I had to push once for on and then off was accomplished by a quick double-tap.
Mine is configured to “use default behavior” and with the zero in polling frequency. If it’s configured and you’ve done a repair to update the routing, I’ll have to let someone else chime in with better info.
Thanks for the response. Tried everything you said, still can’t get it to work. But, here’s something I tried that will maybe shed some light (so to speak) on my problem. I have an “ON” scene assigned to the #1 button on and an “OFF” scene assigned to the #1 button off. It will turn the light on but not off. Then I assigned my “OFF” scene to the #2 button on. When I push button #1 the light comes on and when I push button #2 the light goes off. I then assigned the “OFF” scene to #2 button off. When I push button #1 the light comes on and when I push button #2 the light goes off. So, my problem is I can’t get the same button to toggle between on and off, it will only do a single command.
I do not know if this still applies on the latest release (I am running 1.0.979 on a Vera 1).
On the Vera release I am on, the “Off” buttons of the Leviton Zone controller runs “Scene 0” on Vera. The problem is that Vera did not know how to distinquish which button was turned off. I had to resort to LUA code in order for Off to work like I wanted.
Try setting up a “scene 0” and see if that gets triggered.
What do you mean by a “scene 0”? Set the scene number in events to be scene 0? I’m having the same problem with my leviton controllers…
What is meant by Scene 0 is to use button #0 press as the initiating event.
This is the same way the Intermatic HA07 and HA09 controllers work. Although the page is outdated, it does explain this method:
http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Intermatic_Handheld_Remotes