I have a bunch of old GE ZW3005 ZWave Plus dimmers with add on switches from my old house, I was originally going to replace them but decided to install them since I have so many 3 way switches in the new house and they give me the ability to dim from both switches. What I am finding however is that I can't get double tap to work from the actual switch. I know I had it working on my old install but I've since blown that all away and no longer have any idea what driver I was using. I've tried the driver in HPM and it shows 2 buttons and the double tap in the device and my double tap works from that page. However, double tapping on the physical device does nothing. Any ideas or other 3 way setups that let you dim from both switches and will have double tap capability?
Assume you reset the hub during the move? Did you change from zip to ZwaveJS? I ask because when I switched to ZwaveJS my GE fan controllers stopped reporting doubletap with the inbuilt driver - I haven't tried my GE Dimmers.
@bcopeland never replied to that thread so still not fixed.
Which driver specifically are you using? Can you take a screen cap of the "Type" field showing it? And this affects all switches? Fwiw, I've used double tape on Zip and JS with my GE switches.
I've tried the built in GE Enbrighten ZWave Smart Dimmer and the GE Enbrighten Zwave Plus Smart Dimmer - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botched1/Hubitat/master/Drivers/GE%20Enbrighten%20Dimmer/GE%20Enbrighten%20Dimmer.groovy
I've only got 1 dimmer installed so far since I don't have it working correctly yet
Yeah, that's the one I would have pointed you to if you weren't using it.
Probably won't help, but you could try a shut down, pull power, 30s wait, restore power to restart the radios...
I saw this once on one switch, double tap stopped working, everything else was fine. Never figured it out... But that's one of like 30 or more switches. ![]()
If nothing else works, exclude and rejoin the switch.
Also, general comment, make sure you are checking your Z-wave Details page as you add Z-wave devices to make sure you haven't created any ghosts along the way.
Thanks I’ll give it a try and maybe if I get motivated throw another switch in somewhere else to see if I get the same behavior
Sounds good.
Oops, regarding above, just noticed I didn't make it clear I meant do above to the hub, not the switch. Thought I should clarify that, if not for you, for others reading this topic. ![]()
I would actually do both, smart switches can get locked up too and need a reboot sometimes.
I have many of these GE Enbrighten / Jasco switches and dimmers as well. I use a custom driver from Matt Lebaugh for the ones that I want to expose the double tap capability for.
Matt has a thread (probably old) on here for that driver.
Here is a direct link to his dimmer driver:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botched1/Hubitat/master/Drivers/GE-Jasco%20Z-Wave%20Plus%20Dimmer/GE-Jasco%20Z-Wave%20Plus%20Dimmer.groovy
You should be able to get to his other switch and fan control drivers from there as well.
The driver he's using already exposes the multi-tap/button capability, and has been used successfully by many folks here w/GE switches for years, so it's unlikely his issue will be solved by a driver change. ![]()
I just realized I have not even consistently used the same driver for my GE Dimmers.
These are the three I am using now, apparently. They all give double-tap options that work.
Generic Z-Wave CentralScene Dimmer
GE Enbrighten Zwave Plus Dimmer
Generic Zwave Plus Scene Dimmer
So yes, probably not the driver causing the issue.
Yup...support for that feature is commonly available. Something different going on here.
Some switches/dimmers have a parameter that enables/disables “scene control”.
Could that be the case here?
Never seen that on a GE switch, and that's the only type of dimmer/switch I have. If it did exist, since multi-tap worked on his previous install ulikely that it has been changed.
I wonder that, if there is such a setting to disable scene control, if just factory resetting the dimmer and re-pairing it would get that setting back to default. I would swap in a virtual dimmer for it in apps, delete the current dimmer device, factory reset it, repair it, and then choose replace device at the end of pairing, replacing the virtual dimmer used as a placeholder for the device in apps.
I tried the other drivers just to see and as expected no change. Going to remove and re-add the switch and if that doesn't work will try swapping in a different switch to rule out a switch issue.
Yup, def a next step. Since that's presumably what he did when he removed the switch from his old home and installed it at his new home, I'm not terribly optimistic that it will help to exclude/re-include it again, but an easy thing to rule out.
Yup, but exclude does not reset the settings in the device, just the network pairing. So a factory reset would be different than the exclude that was used during the move.
Excluded, reset and re added with no change. still not seeing any activity from the doubletap in the logs. Next I'll try swapping out the switch for another one but that's probably going to be a week from now given I've got a work trip coming up. This is when I wish I had gone ahead and built a little test board I could swap switches in and out of quickly.
Have you tried it with debug logging enabled on the device page?
You can also change to the driver just named "Device" and I think that will log everything that comes into the driver. I forget if it has debug as an option or just always logs it. It will be raw messages but if you post screenshots I can make sense out of it.
What Hub model? If C8 Pro, are you running Zwave JS or Legacy ZIP gateway?