Dear forum,
I am new to the Vera3 and I am trying to setup my first simple scene and trigger. I have a LSM-15 , wall mounted switch and I want to turn the light on by triggering it with a door senor. My first question is should I see the light go from off to on if I manually turn the light on at the switch? This doesn’t seem to be the case.
Yes, even if you don’t have a z-wave controller (ie, a Vera), the light switch should work manually unless it is defective or wired incorrectly.
-TC
TC, thank you for the quick reply. I should have been more clear on my initial post. What I was asking was should I see the indictor on the device in the dashboard change / follow the actual status of the light? It doesn’t always seem to follow. Does the device need to be polled to obtain the actual status of the light ?
Correct, an Evolve LSM-15 switch does not support “instant status” property, the two most common brands that support that feature are Cooper and Leviton.
The LSM-15 should have a poll setting of 60 in the Vera “Settings” tab for that device in your Vera dashboard.
Hope this helps,
-TC
TC,
Thanks for the info ! I noticed that when I click the LSM-15 to ON in the dashboard the light goes on immediately and the status goes to ON. However, when I hit OFF in the dashboard the light goes off but the status doesn’t change( For several minutes) . I noticed that below the light controller there is a message "waiting for nodeto Reply after 4 retries. Is this normal or is the device struggling to communicate with the Vera?
Correct again, it is in fact having a hard time. You seem to have an excellent understanding of how Z-wave networks work 
Please describe your network, how many devices do you currently have operating? What are their approximate distances from the Vera controller? Please indicate whether they are battery only devices.
Also, please verify what I described before, in terms of the poll settings for the light switch. What is it set at?
-TC
TC,
Many many thanks for the HELP ! I have the Vera3 Controller, Aeon HEM ( 2nd Edition ), Homeseer Zwave Motion detector with light and Temp, 2ea. SMart Switches(on back order ) and 2 ea Evolve LSM-15, only one of which is currently hooked up to control the light in the room. I wanted the system to monitor my vaction rental property and am trying to learn as much as possible. The HEM is in the basement with clamps on the 220 VAC input. The remainder of the switches are in the same room, so within 15 feet of the controller.
I purchased the ERGY software and the power usage seems to work fine. I am trying to write a simple Scene with the door switches activating the light control but was concerned that the light control was not reacting to my controls, thus the request to teh Forum for help. I checked the Polling setting and it is indeed 60 sec for the LSM-15
Ok, next question, how long have you had this setup? Sounds like you might need to do a network heal. Are you familiar with this step?
TC,
I have only had the system for about a week and I am not familiar with the Network Heal Process. I forgot to mention that I also have 3ea DSB29-ZWUS door/window switches and these along with the HSM, are battery operated.
So if I’m reading what you wrote correctly, you only have one AC powered device hooked up (the light switch). Hopefully it’s close enough to the Vera (ie, less than 30 feet). You basically have a “weak” mesh (ie, not many devices to repeat/route the network messages) but it might not matter if the devices are close enough to the Vera.
Please see the image below, you want to get to the Z-Wave Repair screen and then click “Go”. Since you have a small network it shouldn’t take too long, but the battery-based sensors might slow things down. Go have a beer for about 30 minutes. When you come back, there should be no more scrolling messages on the status section at the top of the screen. Then click “View Repair Report”, you should hopefully see a screen with all your devices and no red circles. If you can do a screen capture of that screen and post it here it would help in troubleshooting.
Let us know what happens,
-TC
Also, after the heal, you may see some of those battery devices reporting with a blue flag on the device “waiting for configuration” don’t panic, they will still function and the messages will go away after the devices wake themselves up. In some cases, that may be a long time (several hours).
With only 2 possibilities for a zwave device to get to your vera (directly or through your light switch) I wold not expect a lot from the heal process.
FYI, battery powered sensors are dead ends in the network; they are incapable of receiving a signal from another node and passing it on in the direction of vera. What you will accomplish is to determine which of the two possibilities results in the best quality of transmitting back/forth to vera.
So, as TC1 points out, you have a very lean mesh. It may work brilliantly, it all depends on the multitude of variables that affect the transmission of the zwave signal throughout your home (office, treehouse, etc.). Personally my home is of breeze block construction exterior walls and steel studs in the interior walls. I have a very difficult time getting any device to transmit more than 10ft, unless it is a straight run across a room.
Exactly, YMMV. I started off with one Z-wave battery powered lock on my front door and a Vera, yet the Vera could talk to it directly from about 30 feet away across two different floors, with no other nodes in the mesh. Most nodes in my house so far have a direct route to the controller. Every situation is different. That’s part of the fun 
Thanks for the replies! I am learning so much. Just to re-cap, TC, I have two electrically powered devices, the HEM ( in the basement) and the wall switch (in the same room as the vera). I Found the Zwave Settings and ran the process. At the end I found the following report but with now device status. When I saw the report I noted a choice to run again with and without stress test, so I ran it one more time. This AM there was no difference just the same text but no device report .
Something ain’t right here… you should see a report like the one attached. Maybe you checked the report too soon? You need to let the heal process complete before checking the report.
TC,
On the second attempt I actually left it over night . I will try now and let you know. Also, I tried a new scene this AM and noticed that on my 3in1 sensor there is a Prohibited red circle with a slash through it on the light level and tempurature. I also noticed this for same circle on the HEM. I will forward the heal status after it is finished.
TC,
When I went to redo the heal process I noted View Heal Report !!! Please see attached report.
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