As the not proud owner of six FGD-212 devices, all with v3.2 firmware, news that Fibaro is refusing to support firmware updates with non-Fibaro controllers is very annoying.
I thought Over The Air upgrading (OTA) was a standard feature added in Z-Wave Plus. If Fibaro have used their own vendor extensions for updates they have really killed the spirit of interoperability at the heart of Z-Wave.
@federic0 - do you know the version of firmware your device has please?
After much searching around multiple OH2 and other Z-Wave controller forum posts, there seem to be multiple reports of firmware v3.2 being very difficult to pair, and also poor dimming configuration. v3.3 seems to have better load detection, with v3.4 firmware mentioned in Fibaro manuals.
My FGD-212 v3.2 don’t associate easily with OH2, and even after a struggle (exclude/ factory reset/ include), they don’t give Z-Wave control. Even local control via the hard-wired switch can be unreliable, but after trying a few different types of LED bulbs, they mostly turn and off via the local switch, that is after several manually forced re-calibrations (see previous post).
I can (slightly) forgive Fibaro for problems dimming LED bulbs as their internal design varies very widely. This BigClive video gives an idea of the challenges, and very different power supply circuitry used in otherwise identical bulbs:
I would list the bulbs that have worked for me, but in all probability, a later production run might have a different power supply and fail to dim!
The last resort for control seems to be to change Parameter 30 Load Control Mode to manually set leading/ trailing edge control, but personally, I’d try another LED bulb type or the old X-10 hack of installing a incandescent bulb along side LED bulbs to increase the load current (cheaper than a Fibaro Bypass 2 for testing).
On the other hand, I can’t forgive Fibaro for the Z-Wave protocol issues. Ongoing diagnostics by @chris in another thread suggests the only fix is new firmware or a workaround in every Z-Wave controller software stack:
It looks like other Z-Wave controllers have added hard-coded workarounds but it looks like a test for both device and firmware version would be needed.
I’d much prefer to simply update the Fibaro firmware and fix the root cause.