I have two VRI06’s one in the living room and one in our TV room, both seem to have the same settings. However, when I turn the living room switch on or off UI does not update. When I do the same thing in the TV room, it is instantaneous - UI5 updates correctly.
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TV room: 1 x VRI06 and 2 x VRP03 lamp modules. I have created two scenes “all on” and “all off” with 1 second delay and created a trigger tied to the VRI06. when I click the all on/off from UI5 or physically clicking the VRI06 that statuses update immediately in UI5
Living room: 3 x VRI06’s (one is what I’m calling the main switch, which is near the entry of the room). I have created two scenes “all on” and “all off” with 1 second delay and created a trigger tied to the main VRI06 at the entry way. when I click on the physical buttons on any of the three switches the status does not update in UI5. However if I do it via UI5 it works. Take note, when I first click on UI5 it does not know what the status is of the devices e.g. all three are in an unknown state but clicking the run scene forces UI5 to then report the correct state.
I’ve been trolling the threads and seeing things about poll settings but I have not changed anything after pairing these devices, so not sure why one case is working and the other is not.
As of now, do not yet have the needed vera trouble shooting skills… Thanks, -e
It could be a device starting to fail …
Have you tried to exclude it … then re-include it ? This will force a re-initialization of the device … in case it’s a soft failure.
I doubt that all three switches are failing. But, Richard could still be correct if they are all routing through a single switch that is failing.
Did the problematic switches work and then fail or have they never worked? Is this an existing installation or is this a new installation?
These switches support a feature called “instant status” which means that they are supposed to report their state to Vera whenever it changes. It should not be necessary to poll these switches very often(if at all) and you should certainly not need to change the polling interval.
Your issue sounds like a range/routing issue. If you click the switch’s wrench icon and go to the advanced tab; what is the contents of the AutoRoute field?
VRI06 (Main switch, trigger set on this one) autoroute = 0-5,3-15,20-15,8-20
VRI06 (remote switch-01) autoroute = 0-5,3-15,6-15,5-15
VRI06 (remote switch-02) autoroute = 0-5,6-14,5-15,3-15[/quote]
Those routes say that Vera can talk directly with the switches and also through reliable routes. I would say that it is not a routing problem.
Try power cycling the switches at the breaker and excluding then including them again, as @RichardTSchaefer said. Yes, that’s analogous to pairing, but in the Z-wave world it’s called including and excluding from the Z-Wave network.
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OK, that seemed to work, it is now working whether I run the scene via UI5 or by pressing the main VRI06 switch off and on. Thanks so much…!
Also, my table top lamp module is now not showing status, so I will be unplugging it and excluding it and re-including it to see if that devices starts reporting status correctly.
Two questions: 1. how often to these devices acutely fail, one in ten, one in 20 or more? and 2. how often does one have to re-exlude/include a misbehaving device?
I have seen people posting to change a setting so the nightly jobs don’t reconfigure the devices, is this something I should consider if I have the devices working the way I want?
Glad to hear you got it working. It would be nice to know if the fix was the power cycle or the exclude/include, but so long as it works.
I couldn’t tell you what the actual failure rates are. One in 20(5%) is on the edge of a high failure rate for electronic devices like these. I’ve not heard of many Leviton failures, in fact most of Z-Wave stuff works pretty reliably. Even having to reset via exclude/include is pretty rare. Usually once stuff is working, it just works.
I occasionally hear of people with multiple failures and I can’t help but wonder of there isn’t an issue with their wiring, dirty power, ground faults, something. Hardware problems are rare. ‘I changed xyz and now nothing works!’, that’s not uncommon.
I have 20+ Leviton Z-Wave devices, mostly VRI-06’s (Dimmer) and VRS-15’s (Switch), a bunch of VRCS4-MRZ, some VRI-10’s (Dimmer) and a gaggle of the older Leviton/Monster Appliance modules (6-7?)
They range in age from 2-4 yrs, and none have ever failed. I’ve come close to re-pairing the VRCS4’s, as they’re finicky, but they usually sort themselves out after the nightly heal process.
In the past, I’ve had Trane Z-Wave T-Stats (2), and one of them failed (and I got a replacement). I’ve also blown up one GE Appliance module… without anything plugged into it.
If you see one go out again, it might also pay to try using the air-gap, before the breaker panel. I have had to do that, a long time back, and it was sufficient to reset the switch unit.
The air-gap is activated on a Leviton by pressing on the top of the switch, whereupon the bottom will “pop out”. You need to do this on the dimmers if you want to change light bulbs with the power “off” (otherwise they run a small current through the socket)
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