Device status pending

Tried to add an LR device but it will not due to a known issue, but unknown solution. See here.

I wanted to see if an LR device would be able to work from my mailbox, it's about 50' from the house and it's metal inside brick. Standard Zigbee and Z-wave never worked in the past.

So I added it as standard Z-wave no security and set it in my mailbox, I hoped since I now have a C8 it might work. The sensor worked in my office where I paired it, close to hub, but once out in the mailbox it was unresponsive. I left it out there over night just to see if it would connect. I have two outside smart plugs on my front porch and I hoped it might. Never did, however.

So I brought it back in this morning and stuck out in my garage as I had been wanting to add another motion sensor out there anyway. On the Z-wave status page it shows the device status as pending. I have refreshed it many times. How long should it take for this to update?

It showed motion active and other events on it's device event page when I brought it in from the mailbox. So it is talking to the hub.

To be clear, are you actually noticing any problems? It sounds like not. This state is totally normal to see for battery powered devices on occasion. A Refresh won't do anything for them unless they are awake, and the fact that you tried one (presumably not when awake) is likely to only make this continue to appear for you longer.

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