[2.2.8.156 C7] GE Smart Fan Control Driver - Mixed up Hub Driven vs Physical Actions

[rob9]

@bcopeland: It appears that the driver isn't properly differentiating between "hub" off commands and manually pressing the button.

I have a GE Smart Fan Switch and I was using "Physical Off" and "Physical On" to detect behaviors that should drive my rule behavior (namely, if I physically/manually turn the fan on/off, I don't want the rule to immediately do something different).

Today, when I noticed it not responding as expected, I looked and found that it somehow sent a "Physical Off" event despite the "Off" being a hub-initiated Off.

You can see my variable was off, then a temp rule turned the fan OFF logically (NOT physically), then the "Manually Turned Off" rule triggered on a Physical Off.

Here is the log sequence:

Here is the App Events for that rule that detects Physical Off:

And, here is the app itself:

Thanks!

[terminal3]

Are you saying this use to work but now it doesn't? Some switches don't have this capability. I just went though this on an old GE switch I had. I tried to setup a rule that used physical on and off but it triggered no matter if physical or digital. I tried several different z-wave switch drivers all with the same result.

I also found some time back, a few revisions ago, a switch that did work with physical on and off does not work if it's though the hub mesh. I don't know if that is changed or not, I asked support if it was expected behavior but they never answered.

[rob9]

I'm not entirely sure if it's ever worked (I doubt it, based on nothing in the driver likely changing since I got the fan switch).

It looks like something may be generating 2 events? Not sure.

I'm using the stock driver for this one. Figured I'd ask the question.

[terminal3]

I had a rule that when I physically turned on a light switch for a light over the kitchen sink it also would turn on the LED strip lighting under the kitchen cabinets. That works great but a few months ago I decided I would had the overhead kitchen light as well. Both were GE toggle switches. So I assumed just adding the switch to the rule would work. It would not, even using the same driver for both switches.

I then realized that the light switch that worked was a newer Z-wave+ switch and the one controlling the overhead was a non+ z-wave.

[rob9]

@terminal3

non+ z-wave

Yeah, that can make a difference. The older ones were pretty limited.

My fan switch should be a full "plus".

[rob9]

@bcopeland Any thoughts on this?

I'd like to be able to properly detect the difference between a real "a human pushed the switch" on/off and a "hub sent an on/off" request. However, right now, the driver seems to report "hub on/off" events as being "physical".

Still an issue on 2.3.1.141-C7- using the GE Smart Fan Control driver.

Thanks!