Scene indicators on controllers not updating correctly

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I have an issue with scene indicator LEDs on Leviton devices when Vera turns the device on or off. I know Monster devices do NOT allow external LED control, and the newer Levitons do, but I am NOT using Vera scenes to do this.

Here is my setup:
1 Leviton VRR15 (receptacle)
1 Leviton VRCZ4
1 Leviton VRCS1
1 Monster scene controller
1 Vera (Vera2, 1.5.346)
1 GE 45601

I used a Leviton VRCPG to handle associations/programming. Each controller is associated to the outlet, and the outlet is reverse-associated back to each controller (including Vera), and these are set up as scenes (meaning if the device is on, the LED should be on).

If I use ANY Leviton/Monster controller to toggle state, it toggles, and in a couple seconds each controller LED turns it set correctly, and Vera shows the light state correctly.

If I use the GE to toggle the state, nothing happens with the LED controllers and Vera doesn’t update.

If I use the Vera to toggle the state, nothing happens with the LED controllers.

Here is where is gets odd…assume you start with the device off, the LEDs are off (which is correct), and Vera shows the device is off.

If I turned the device on with Vera/GE, the LEDs are now out of sync. However, if I hit “On” for ANY of the controllers, in a few seconds, all the controllers jump into sync, and things are fine (even though the load never changed state).

Is it possible that when Vera/GE send a command, it says “reply to me, and only to me” but when a Leviton device sends a commas, it says “reply to everyone in your association list?”

I understand the limitations of the Monster controllers, and that if I scrapped them to use zone/scene controllers with external LED controller, and used Vera to manage scenes, this would not be an issue. However, that doesn’t answer the underlying question.

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I think your observations are consistent with mine. Might be a Leviton proprietary implementation?

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I guess so. I was thinking it might caused by the controllers using the scene command, and Vera using a direct command. So I tried using the Leviton remote to turn the device on and off directly.

If the light is “On” hitting “Off” on the remote will turn the indicators off. Unfortunately, the opposite is not true. Using the Leviton to turn it “On” will not turn on the LEDs. Operating the device locally has the same effect as using the remote.

You can “break” the scene, but you can’t re-enable it by turning the devices back to the appropriate state, which makes sense. But it’s no fun having Vera not able to turn it off and have the lights update correctly.

I’m going to let it sit for a while, and see if they ever update. I highly doubt the controllers do any polling on their own, but hey, it’s worth a shot. :stuck_out_tongue:

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oTi@: Has there been any movement on bug 1476?
http://bugs.mios.com/view.php?id=1476

I’ve been fighting with a zone controller that has it’s lights not working, and then I remembered reading about that bug before. It was submitted back in April 2011 for UI4, and still broken?

Is it something Vera can reset? Or is it a Leviton firmware issue that can’t be flipped back?

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Not that I’m aware of.

I've been fighting with a zone controller that has it's lights not working, and then I remembered reading about that bug before.
Ah, so you're seeing the same thing.
It was submitted back in April 2011 for UI4, and still broken? Is it something Vera can reset? Or is it a Leviton firmware issue that can't be flipped back?
Yep. I have not heard anything from MCV about it, in terms of asking for further details from me, or background info from them, or anything. I have kept a never-included zone controller around, for reference / (re-)test.