Just a short notice for people who are looking for the same thing I was looking for.
I reset my z-wave chip on the vera without excluding the devices first. I thought it would be more convenient to reset the individual devices. Next time I’ll exclude first.
So I was looking for a way to reset the Everspring SP103 PIR sensor to exclude it from the old network that didn’t exist anymore. Unfortunately there was no word on this in the manual and I couldn’t find much on the internet. Without reset method on the device I didn’t know what to do anymore.
It appeared that the vera can reset the z-wave chip in the device for you. When you go to ‘add a device’ (not advanced z-wave devices) and choose option 1: carry the device to the vera. You can activate the device as you would if you wanted to include it. It won’t appear because it is still included in the old network. But there is the link ‘I’m activating the device but it is not appearing in the list’. If you click that vera will reset the device for you if you activate it and then you can include it again.
This wasn’t obvious to me. I hope this helps others…
What exactly do you mean by ‘reset your z-wave chip on the Vera’ ?
Would you mind explaining the steps you did to do that? I have heard the word reset refered in the same way as exclude, hence I’m curious what you are doing (as your advice is interesting)
I should have been a bit more precise. With ‘reset your z-wave chip on the Vera’ I actually meant resetting the z-wave network, the uppermost button under ‘z-wave settings/advanced’.
I thought that nodes can only be excluded from the current z-wave network with a button or reset procedure on the device (switch/sensor etc) itself. So after resetting the network I thought I had to exclude the devices with some kind of button or procedure on each device. I could find these procedures for each device I had, apart from the SP103 mentioned before.
The advice above actually has to be generalized as I have now learned that the vera (with a different z-wave network id or house id) can exclude any device from its former network (which I called reset the z-wave chip in the device in the previous message). This is much more convenient than the often clumsy excluding procedures that are different for each different device.
In the procedure above I pointed to a specific way to put the vera into exclude mode. I now found out that the exclude mode is available as full-power exclude and carry-around exclude mode as well. This may have been obvious for the experienced users here. But I have found questions on the exclusion procedure for the SP103 on various places on the internet without solutions.
The solution appears to be simple: controllers can exclude devices from other (former) z-wave networks as well.
Hi apt, I think your advice may help my current predicament. But I want to understand what you’re doing. My current Vera2 recently crapped out on me. I couldn’t access it over my network after multiple reboots. The service light on the unit front panel is on, not a good sign.
Anyhow, I’ve decided to buy a new VeraLite, but I’m worried that since I did not have a chance to exclude my devices before the Vera2 unit went out, I may not be able to include these devices into the new VeraLite unit. Are you saying that it’s possible to include my devices to the new VeraLite unit? If so, how would I do this?
Yes your new vera can exclude the devices from the old network. One of the procedures is described here. Another possibility is to use full power exclusion as available from “Devices/Add Devices/Advanced Z-Wave Device”. In that case you can set vera to exclusion mode for several minutes and make your round around the house activating the devices. Once you are done set vera to include mode again and make your round around the house again.
I always thought that it was impossible for vera to exclude the devices from another network, that it wasn’t allowed to do so. But apparently it is no problem at all, and much easier than the specific reset instructions of each separate device. The fibaro switches are especially difficult to reset without controller if you don’t have a monostable switch.