Linear Dimmer Not Polling

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I have been working on custom software to use for wall mounted android devices to control my home from different key points through out the house and come across a problem with all my Linear dimmers and wanted to know if any one has had similar problems.

I know the devices don’t support instant status, but the devices are not being polled or updated for hours at a time. I’ve gone into the setting and tried to set the polling for devices to as low as possible, tried debugging a single switch and setting just that ones polling to be as low as possible, but they will not get updated in the vera for hours after a dim level has been set.

Here’s the perplexing part…
I also have several GE on/off switches that when switched almost immediately update in the UI. Even more confusing is if I double tap on/off on the Linear dimmers they update almost immediately (within about 1 second, the same as the GE switches). From reading through the forum I have learned that even though the manual for the Linear switches say they support associations for groups 2-4, they do not. Further I have inspected the associations and can confirm there is no association groups which make this happen. Does anyone know what is going on? How can I make the updating happen sooner? I wouldn’t even mind if the update happens 10 seconds later, but hours later (from testing it seems to be right around 3 hours), is not going to work. I have tried removing all plugins, and extra devices (secondary controller) to keep it down to the essentials, but the updates still take hours. I’m running UI7, latest firmware on the vera edge.

Thanks ahead of time for any help.

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Search the forum for my posts about pseudo Instant Status and network information frames(NIF). This is why your GE switches seem fast and why the Linears are fast when double tapped(Linear sends exclude NIF with a double tap).

You don’t have granular control over polling. You thought you were telling Vera to poll more frequently, but if you look at the settings you’re actually telling Vera to poll no more frequently than that. But Vera’s polling remains opportunistic and the frequency is affected by the number of devices, the business of Vera and the Z-Wave network and probably some other Voodoo too. My point is that your changes to the polling settings did in fact not change the polling frequency.

For your requirements, there is nothing you can really do beyond replacing the switches with ones that support Instant Status. However for certain circumstances a scene or command to force a poll may work. I do this in a couple of cases where when motion sensors trip, PLEG polls the switch to determine its state and then decides what action or dim level is appropriate.

No, you should not setup a scene to poll the devices every few seconds/minutes. This will create too much load and Z-Wave commands will start queuing up and blocking other commands.