Troubleshooting light that turns on "randomly"

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I have a Jasco light switch that I had installed a few years ago and then replaced with a dimmer. I just redeployed that original switch in another location and now it is occasionally getting activated, its clearly not random - but I don’t know which scene is causing it. . . So my bad for having poor documentation :slight_smile:

I can see in the logs when it is getting activated, and there are no clues that I can find as to which scene is causing the activation. Vera doesn’t seem to natively list a list of “where used” for a device, can anyone suggest how I can either fully delete this device and any related code to then re-include it as a new device or suggest a troubleshooting approach that will allow me to track down the offending scene?

Thanks!

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A number of threads here describe approaches for this problem… searching the board may help.

There are some specific pieces of code you can use to scan scenes for devices, or if you want to go to town then you might consider installing EventWatcher which, amongst other things, has such a report built in.

If, however, this is happening as a result of some Luup code somewhere, then it’s going to be harder to find.

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Thanks - searching the board didn’t point me to anything useful but maybe I was using the wrong terminology.

Pointing me to EventWatcher was a great help, not in solving this problem yet - the scene reports confirm my manual review that this device isn’t included in any scene. Looking at the logging visibility EventWatcher provides now to see if that can help.

Outside of this immediate issue I’m trying to solve the other reports from EventWatcher are going to be really useful for other cleanup that I can do on my system.

thanks a lot!

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That’s great - glad it helped a bit. Hope you find more use for it in the future (and, meanwhile, fix your problem somehow.)

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If you exclude and then re-include a Z-Wave device it resets the device to defaults and, since the node number changes, it removes the device from all scenes and automation. In a case like this I would normally just recommend an exclude and then an include.

There have even been a couple of cases reported where the switch was going bad and it would activate/deactivate on its own. To verify that this is not your issue, you can simply exclude the switch and then leave it for a day, to see if it turns on by itself. If it does, the switch is bad. If it does not, you can re-include it and it will no longer be part of any automation, as described previously.

Problem solved.

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The device be activated by a z-Wave association … in which case it has nothing to do with Vera. Some other device may be causing the device to turn on.