I have a controller in garage and controller in house. Garage was bought first. All sensors worked fine for last 18 months, then I noticed one of my door sensors had a red battery indicator so I bought a cr123 and swapped it out and noticed no change. I cant get it to recognize open/close of door or full battery. So I deleted it from garage controller, left battery out for two minutes placed plastic in front of battery and put in all back together. I put garage controller in add mode, pulled plastic out, schlage went solid red for 15 or so seconds then turned off. Controller never flashed quickly and dashboard shows no new device. any ideas?
How far aways was the sensor from the controller. Battery devices really need to be less than like 2 feet away when adding. I leave mine on top of teh controller for about 15 minutes so they can configire and update properly.
On a side note, an empty battery should not have dropped a sensor from the controller. The controller should have recognized it when it came back online. Perhaps not immediately (It is a battery device) but within an hour or so.
You may want to run a heal on that garage controller and see if that helps any.
I think you are doing the right thing in trying to exclude and include your sensor, but your sensor has not yet been excluded. It must be excluded before it can be included again.
To exclude this sensor, you should remove your sensor’s battery and then put your Vera controller in Exclude mode. Once the Vera is in Exclude mode, install the sensor’s battery and it should exclude.
After successfully excluding your sensor, you should remove the sensor’s battery; place the Vera in Include mode; reinstall the sensor’s battery. It should now be included.
The final step would be to install the sensor and Vera in their respective final destination, if the above process did not occur there. Remove the sensor’s cover, to put it in wake up mode for a few minutes(10?), and choose “Configure node right now” from the device’s settings tab in Vera. Once you have successfully configured the device, replace the sensor’s cover and you’re done.
I really appreciated the responses. I set the schlage about 1 inch from controller. When I removed plastic the vera lite never blinked. I looked on my vera dash and there is no schlage sensor so I assume its removed. Let me ask this…
The garage veralite is the master and the house is the slave so does it matter which vera I use to add this? It will be operated by the garage controller when all is said and done.
When I I place the vera lite in “include” which is hitting the plus bottun causing a steady blink of orange light, I should remove plastic and let sensor sit next to vera for up to fifteen minutes? I thought the fast blink from the vera should take less than a minute. i tested the cr123 and its strong.
[quote=“cl-vera, post:4, topic:186331”]I set the schlage about 1 inch from controller.[/quote]It probably won’t really matter, but there are a few instances where a device might be too close. It makes the signal so “loud” that the receiver(Vera) can’t comprehend what the sensor is “screaming”. The recommended distance is 1 meter.
When I removed plastic the vera lite never blinked. I looked on my vera dash and there is no schlage sensor so I assume its removed.The Vera was in include or exclude mode? Vera has to be in the appropriate mode when you activate the device and Vera times out of that mode in one minute(by default).
Attempt a successful exclude first. Then perform the include.
The garage veralite is the master and the house is the slave so does it matter which vera I use to add this? It will be operated by the garage controller when all is said and done.You will need to include the device into the Vera that will be closest to the device in its final operating locations. So, if the sensor is going back into the garage, you should exclude/include it into the garage Vera.
When I I place the vera lite in "include" which is hitting the plus bottun causing a steady blink of orange light, I should remove plastic and let sensor sit next to vera for up to fifteen minutes?No, a successful include will complete within seconds, almost immediately. You activate the device, Vera blinks, and it's done. If the process does not occur or complete for whatever reason, Vera will(by default) exit the include/exclude mode in 60 seconds.
I would also suggest that you try the include/exclude process with the sensor’s cover off, rather than just pulling the plastic tab on a fully assembled sensor. With the cover off, the sensor stays awake, rather than immediately going to sleep, and allows Vera time to configure the device after a successful Include.
Pull battery, place Vera in Exclude mode, install battery. - May or may not be successful, depending on whether or not the device is previously excluded.
Pull battery, place Vera in Include mode, install battery. - Must complete successfully.