Syncing Two Zones With One Switch

Other Devices & Integrations Lighting & Load Control
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I hope I can explain this well. I have one hall way in the home with an East and a West side. The East side has a 4 way switch, and the W side has a 3 way switch. Both E and W are separate circuits. I want to be able to turn one light on in the W side and have it trigger the E side hall, and vice versa.

Scenes are the answer (I think…) Insteaon is easier as I understand because I can sync both switches but I am not sure how this is accomplished with Z-Wave. My guess is with scenes. Both switches in both hallways (and their remotes) will trigger the scene (let’s call it “hallway”) that turns both zones on.

Users say that there is an issue with this if both switches are not instant status. Is this true? What dimmers do you guys recommend for this task? I have a Leviton DZMX1-1LZ and people claim it works with instant status some claim it does not. Is it even relevant in this scenario?

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Use a Leviton VRMX1-1LZ 1000W Vizia RF Universal Magnetic Low Voltage Dimmer on each circuit and then associate them with each other. They will switch both lights as one, even without Vera being present(turned on).

You could also use Cooper Wiring Devices RF9540-NAW Aspire Single-Pole Multi-Location Master Dimmer Light Switches fo rthis application. Instant Status is important, but the real need is the ability to associate the switches with each other, which also provides Instant Status.

The Leviton DZMX1-1LZ does not have Instant Status. But, it isn’t important since what you really want is associations.

Edit: with the East and West switches being 3 and 4-way, make sure that you identify all the other switches for these circuits? The one with a 4-way switch should have three or more switches controlling that light.

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Will the DZMX1-1LZ do associations? Or is that the Vizia RF feature (that the DZMX1 does not have)?

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No, not to my knowledge. The DZXM1-1LZ does not support the COMMAND_CLASS_ASSOCIATION (133)

Leviton’s literature repeatedly refers to Scene Capable, which I would normally take to mean association capable, but I don’t know what they mean in this case.

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Z-Waver,
How were you able to set the association between the two leviton RF+ switches? were you able to do this with the vera or do you need the leviton programmer?

Thanks

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The associations are created from Vera. After they have been setup, Vera is no longer needed for them to work. There are lots of threads with instructions on creating associations. Here are association creation instructions that I wrote a couple years ago. If you are using UI7, the exact steps may be slightly different, but it’s still very similar.

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Thanks for the quick response Z-Waver, followed your instructions but would not work. Did a little more searching and it looks like it is not possible with two VRI06-1LZ dimmers. I had it set up and working in PLEG but I thought doing it via associations would be a little quicker and save the extra work that my already taxed vera would have to do.

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That is correct. The VRI06-1LZ do not support associations.

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That is odd, the VRMX1 supports associations but the VRI06 does not? both are vizia RF+ switches, maybe I was doing something wrong. I have a kitchen light and a hall light I want to work together, both are the VRI06 switches, in the kitchen light i opened the device options and created group one, then pushed the set button and check marked the hall light. did the same in the hall light but check marked the kitchen light and hit save