I just moved my existing Z-Wave network from using the Leviton remote control as the primary controller to using the Vera lite as the primary.
Everything works fine except for my Wayne-Dalton gateway. It appears as a controller in the devices list, but it doesn’t show as having any scene buttons like my other controllers, so I can’t assign scenes to it.
All of the documentation seems to be ancient and doesn’t apply to the lite (or is it UI5. The terminology around here is NOT new-user friendly).
I’ve tried factory resetting the gateway, putting a new battery in the gateway. Deleting everything, factory resetting, re-adding… No love. It just doesn’t work. But it works fine with the Leviton controller, so I know the gateway isn’t broken.
Any ideas?
OK, so it works if you program the Wayne Dalton scenes using the buttons on the gateway itself. Which is sufficient; but odd that it’s a device in the Vera UI that you really can’t do anything with.
I have a gateway, and I just set up triggers in each scene. Select the gateway, choose “A scene is activated” and enter 1, 2, or 3 for the scene number, depending on which button you are assigning.
I cannot remember if you then have to re-include the device to actually get the programming to get transferred or not. You might need to do that.
I have it working now, mostly. The one thing that still doesn’t work is that when a scene is activated through the gateway the other controllers don’t seem to know about it. So if I have a scene controller that controls the same switch as one of the gateway scenes and the scene is activated through the gateway, I then need to push the button on the other controller twice to turn off the scene.
I couldn’t get the “A scene is activated” thing to work.
[quote=“jbaboval, post:4, topic:172315”]I have it working now, mostly. The one thing that still doesn’t work is that when a scene is activated through the gateway the other controllers don’t seem to know about it. So if I have a scene controller that controls the same switch as one of the gateway scenes and the scene is activated through the gateway, I then need to push the button on the other controller twice to turn off the scene.
I couldn’t get the “A scene is activated” thing to work.[/quote]Unfortunately that might be/is a limitation of Vera. When Vera program scenes into controllers (even the same scene to multiple controllers) the same scene number isn’t programmed in.
Take the following setup:
2 Leviton scene controllers (A and B)
1 Leviton dimmer
Have a scene called “dimmer on” and associate it to button one on each controller. Vera will program the scene into A and B, but A might have scene #21 and B would have scene #34. When you use A, the dimmer tells controllers “Hey, I just configured myself to scene 21”. When B sees this update, it has no idea what scene 21 is, so it ignores the update. Likewise when you use B to turn it on, A has no idea hat scene 34 is, so it’s ignored.
To get around this, once Vera program scenes, I try to reset the scene numbers, using the Leviton remote. Nice you set them both to 21, all controllers will then stay in sync.
Using the WDHA12 complicates this. I don’t know if it uses actual scene controls, or just regular zwave commands. I would thing it uses scene commands, since lights turn on in unison. I have not tried to reprogram the scene numbers one that.
The other way to get the LEDs t work right is use newer ones with “external LED control” and let Vera manage the LEDs. Its not great, since it might rely on polling to get them in sync, but might be better hsn nothing.
Hmm, that should work, and is the way to have Vera be aware of ‘what is going on’, so she can show the proper status for the devices in the scene, update scene controller LEDs, etc.
I have it working now, mostly. The one thing that still doesn't work is that when a scene is activated through the gateway the other controllers don't seem to know about it.[...]
Which Leviton scene controller model are you using? Also, since the gateway is directly controlling the switch and Vera doesn't know about the scene, the Leviton scene controller will probably not get updated (as the switch doesn't send an update, and Vera won't update the LED as she doesn't know about the scene.).