I’ve recently installed two Inovelli LZW31 (black) dimmers. Overall I like them, but I’m having some communication issues. I can easilyl configure the switches using Paper or BasicUI, and when I send commands via Openhab they will respond. But when controlling locally the state is not being transmitted to Openhab; there is no update within the UIs and no entry in the logs. Any thoughts?
In HABmin, in the Thing configuration for the switch, under the Attributes item… Do the “Neighbors” make sense?
I recently had 2 zwave light bulbs that did have neighbors except themselves. The network heals did not seem to help, so I had to exclude/include them again.
@smak01, the neighbors do make sense. These switches happen to literally be feet from my z-wave controller but they’re also connecting to several devices within communication range. The z-wave network viewer (although I don’t put too much stock in it) is not showing that they are directly connected to the controller via a thick, green line but a thin red line. Which I wouldn’t expect. Also the switches show they are listening, but not “frequently listening”, again don’t know if this is an issue
I have several LZW30-SN (red) switches, and this is how they appear in habmin. They all report local status correctly.
Are your LZW30 items setup in openhab as dimmers or switches? Your first post mentions “dimmers” but the LZW30 is a binary switch. That might explain why status isn’t updating correctly.
Gaa…I had the incorrect model listed (I have a different issue going on with a switch). These are LZW31 black dimmers and I edited my original entry.
The items are set up correctly as dimmers and I can send them commands and they respond. But they are not transmitting their state back to the z-wave controller when I change them locally
Yeah, those model numbers are easy to mix up. I often run into the same problem.
Here’s what my items file looks like for the LZW31-SN (red) dimmers. If you haven’t yet, you can try setting up the other channels to verify if status for those are being reported correctly (i.e. scene or effect. I think black series doesn’t report energy use).
Dimmer FamilyRoomLightsDimmer "Family Room Lights [%d %%]" (FamilyRoom,gLights,gIntLights) {channel="zwave:device:057c652b:node15:switch_dimmer"}
Number FamilyRoomLightsWatts "Family Room Lights Watts [%.1f W]" (gEnergy) {channel="zwave:device:057c652b:node15:meter_watts"}
Number FamilyRoomLightsScene "Family Room Lights Scene" {channel="zwave:device:057c652b:node15:scene_number"}
Number FamilyRoomLightsEffect "Family Room Lights LED Effect" {channel="zwave:device:057c652b:node15:config_decimal_param16"}
With the black dimmers, the only channel I have is the dimmer itself. But my item looks nearly identical (in terms of the channel).
I also have a LZW30 black switch installed, and it updates its status back to OpenHAB. I’m just having issues with the dimmers.
When the documentation clearly says to turn on debug logging when things do not go as planned, why it that the last thing people try?
Only the system knows what it happening. Ask it.
It does seem everything is working correctly though. You’re getting a state report of 99 for ON and 0 for off, so at least you can rule out hardware.
Having said that, the next logical step would be to examine why the status isn’t being passed to your node channel. My best guess still comes back to the *.item file. Can you post a copy of that? What happens when you set it to a string item instead of dimmer?
Can you tell me what devices these are - ideally if you can provide the database reference for the devices it would be good. I’ll take a look to see if there’s an issue with the basic command class configuration in the database.
@roy_liao, what are the dbReference numbers for your switches? You have the Red, higher functioning switches where I’m using the Blacks. I wonder if there are differences in their commands?
This device looks ok to me so I’m not sure why it wouldn’t have used the BASIC report that I see in the log for the dimmer item. You said you were running 2.5.5 - is this the first time you’ve included these devices or did you previously run an older version? It might pay to delete the thing and add it back to ensure that any changes are flowed into your system.
