TKB Dimmer TZ67 wrongly recocnized

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Hi folks.

I’m in the mid of migrating my items from VeraLite to OH2 but I’m stuck with my dimmer from TKB.

Openhab2 recocnizes the device but claims it’s an TZ88 rather than a TZ67. Therefore the dimm channel is missing.

I tried to make the binary swtich a dimmer but that doesn’t show any response if I change the slider. The ON/OFF works fine for both settings (switch/dimmer) but the dimming is needed but missing…

How can I force the thing definition to be TZ67 or what else might have gone wrong?

I do tried exclude/include/factory reset/… many times but it keeps coming up as TZ88.
LOGfile doesn’t help beside an error when I try to set a percent value to the binary switch channel:

2017-02-19 11:43:30.616 [WARN ] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 21: Command for unknown channel zwave:device:6a4c9781:node21:switch_binary with PercentType

Anyone succeeded with the dimmer in Openhab2?

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hi gents,

I still do struggle on this issue. My TKB dimmer plug is recognized wrongly. Instead of a TKB TZ88 as recocnized by OH2 it should show up as TZ67

Investigating further I found the xml under /var/lib/openhab2/zwave but that doesn’t seem to show effect. I found a new XML file from Chris Jackson but it doesn’t show an effect and frankly it looks very different to the auto created file.

How can I force the the correct item descriptions so OPENHAB2 gets the correct channels for the thing?

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Hi Vasco,

according to the device manual this thing supports SWITCH_MULTILEVEL class.
Please try zwave:device:6a4c9781:node21:switch_multilevel in your item config.

I would be interested if you get it working as I am as well interested in buying this one…

Best Regards!

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Hy Carsten

I can recommend these. I had it working for about 18 months without any issue. My above issue seem to be related to other issues with my controller after power outage (on a pi).
I setup my network all over again and changed to a USB controler (AEON).
Below are the 2 items I have setup at the moment.
The switch toggles between on (previous setting) and off while the dimmer does the lightlevel. As I don’t want to change the lightlevel I mainly use the onoff only after initial brightness set :slight_smile:

Works like a charm again

Dimmer  bedroom_nightlight_brightness           "Nightlight Brightness [%d]"    { channel="zwave:zwaveID:node12:switch_dimmer" }
Switch  bedroom_nightlight_onoff                "Nightlight Switch"     { channel="zwave:zwaveID:node12:switch_dimmer" }

Due to change of controller my nodeID changed. I guess you have figured that one out already :smiley:

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Hi Vasco,

thanks for the answer and good to hear everything is working for you. I’ll definately have a closer look to the TKB Dimmer.
Yes, I did know that the z-wave nodes are stored in the USB controller. I am using a simple Z-Wave.Me USB Smart Home Stick with Raspi, building a cheap solution but working well.