aaiyar
November 7, 2021, 12:31pm
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LibraSun:
On my Hubitat, I have only one device (migrating from Vera Plus), an Intermatic HA20C*** in-wall Z-Wave dimmer switch. It responds perfectly to all of the testing panel buttons (On, SetLevel, Off, etc.) in the Hubitat UI.
Alexa will turn it ON or OFF, no problem. But asking her to "Dim the Dining Room Light to 30 percent" results in a "Sorry, that device is not responding" error. Every time. And the light remains off/unchanged. (I should note here as well that I tried turning on the Echo app's "Respond immediately without waiting for device" option, to no avail, so turned that back off.)
Swapping the device class to "Smart" (per the recommended solution) and deleting/re-adding the device to the Echo Skill app did not solve the issue I'm sorry to report.
This is not a zwave+ device, so a “Smart” driver shouldn’t be used.
I just answered another post on a related subject, so I’ve linked to that post below. There’s no real solution, outside of turning on zwave polling for this device. While that does add unnecessary traffic to your zwave network, doing it for one device is not so bad.
Personally, I replaced all my zwave switches/dimmers with zwave+ equivalents, or Lutron Caséta devices.
This is an old zwave device that does not report its status back automatically to the controller.
The driver to use is Generic Zwave Dimmer. And then, use the built in Zwave Poller app to poll this switch so the hub keeps track of the current status of the dimmer.
Also, without polling, the dimmer will not be controlled well by voice assistants like Alexa. Three final things:
Click Configure each time you change drivers.
The “Smart” drivers are for zwave+ devices.
Consider replacing it with …
