I have this new ZWave device, ABUS SHBW10000 PIR Mulitsensor, which at first seemed to work fine, but now behaves really weird. I wanted to exclude it, remove it from OH, reset it to factory defaults and start over from scratch (with the device). It should be easy, but I have no fricking idea how this is supposed to work. I tried to “remove from controller”, I tried to set it failed, I restarted OH, I soft reset the controller, this and that, over and over. It always comes back in the Inbox… I tried “Exlcude Devices” in the controller config. Nothing.
It certainly doesn’t help that I can’t see it’s state at the device itself (included or excluded). I don’t even see if it is powered or not. But in any case it’s current view of the world should be visible in the OH ZWave config. I should get clear feedback. I remove the device in different ways, it seems gone, but apparently this is not true. ZWave Binding, Controller, OH - it’s unclear, I see no feedback, but something still knows the device and shows it again in the Inbox.
Quite frankly, it’s just super unintuitive and utterly confusing! Frustrating…
What is the difference between the (+) in the Inbox and the little antenna symbol? Both search or scan, but what for? Which one is responsible for ZWave inclusion? And then what does the other one do?
What means “Set device as FAILed”? Not a hint in the UI…
What means “Remove device from controller”? Not a hint in the UI… Does it start the exclusion process for this device?
What is the controller option “Exclude devices”? Exclusion mode, yes… but compared to the above? If the above means “exclude this single device”, then is “Exclude devices” removing all my devices when I hit the button? I better not do that…
I can delete the Thing, I expect it force removes the ZWave device from the controller. But it comes back.
Did I exclude the device? No idea. How can I be sure the device is really excluded? I hit (+) in the Inbox, it’s back…
All I got so far is the device now found with a new node id, and a zombie Thing with the previous node id of the device. Which I have even less a clue how to get rid of…
Any help appreciated how to permanently get rid of the two things and get to a defined state again!