A Tale of 2 GE Enbrighten Dimmers

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Hello!

So I've just added to GE Enbrighten Dimmer Switches. The first went great, and it identified itself and works great. It used a neutral wire. For the second, I got the version that doesn't require a neutral wire. But that only shows up as a "Device" by default.

I noticed my first device was setup with "None" security, so I tried playing around with security levels on the second switch, but regardless of what security level I tried, it came back as "Device".

I did notice that when asked to enter the 5 digits on the front of the second device, the screen showed all the digits, and I didn't seem to have any place to enter any digits, and just listed all the digits! (Screenshot attached)

Also there is a difference in device ID. This the Data of the one that is detected properly:

  • deviceId: 12853
  • deviceType: 18756
  • manufacturer: 99
  • inClusters: 0x5E,0x26,0x85,0x59,0x86,0x72,0x55,0x5A,0x73,0x5B,0x9F,0x6C,0x70,0x22,0x7A

And this is the Data of the one that isn't detected properly:

  • zwaveSecurePairingComplete: true
  • S2: 1
  • deviceId: 13107
  • deviceType: 18756
  • manufacturer: 99
  • inClusters: 0x5E,0x55,0x9F,0x6C,0x22
  • secureInClusters: 0x26,0x85,0x8E,0x59,0x86,0x72,0x70,0x5B,0x5A,0x87,0x73,0x7A

The second seems to work fine when I manually select the Device Type, but I worry that this may ultimately lead to issues.

Thoughts? Thanks for your time!
Nick

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That just means the in-box driver doesn't know which driver to pick. This can happen for a number of reasons - rebranded models, slight updates where they changed the firmware/id, etc.

As long as the S2 pairing completed successfully, then manually changing to the GE Enbrighten driver, hitting save, then hitting Configure should be a perfectly OK thing to do.

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