I'm migrating from SmartThings to Hubitat Elevation, and things were going well at first...
After I moved over the first 8 or so switches, I suddenly started seeing prompts to enter my security key... something I didn't have to deal with with the first ~8 switches, nor ever with SmartThings.
When I first try to pair it, I'm prompted with this popup (those middle two are checked by default):
If I check either of the top two options, I am them prompted to enter my DSK:
If I only select one of the "Unauthenticated" options, then it hangs on Initialization for the device indefinitely (I've let it run over night just in case):
At this point, inclusion seems kind of messed up. It always brings the item I failed to pair up if I try again until I do an exclusion on that device.
I realize I could pull out all my switches and look at the DSK, but I haven't had to do that before and I really don't want to mess with it now... that's a lot of extra work to pull all those out (I think the key is on the back?). And even then... I remember there being a sticker, and I can't promise I left them all there...
It's really confusing that some of the switches worked before they started asking me for a DSK, and then like the next 5 I tried all prompted for it.
Things I've tried:
Excluding the device, rebooting Hubitat and then trying to re-include.
Different combinations of checkboxes in the security prompt.
Factory resetting the switches.
Rebooting Hubitat a lot.
Completely resetting my Z-wave Radio (which didn't work and now I have to remove all the Devices from Hubitat (as they aren't automatically removed when resetting Z-wave Radio), exclude the devices from Z-wave and re-include the ones I had working).
Repair Z-wave and give it time to run. I did this a few times.
Move the Hubitat Hub a lot closer. About ~15-20 feet away, which is much closer than other switches that paired no problem.
Triple checked it was excluded from SmartThings.
Ensure that SmartThings is unplugged (which I had had it running while I migrated things over... it still controls a bunch of other things I haven't moved yet).
A lot of Google searches to see if anyone else has encountered this issue.
Things I haven't tried that would probably work:
Enter a DSK. I don't understand why now? I'd like to not have to deal with this and just have it "just work."
Switches that have failed with these same symptoms:
Apparently the C7 had some different screens to go with the added capability. I'm running an old time C-4. There is a dedicated C-7 category (I think under getting started. I would add C-7 to your subject.
That seemed to work for the first switch I tried it on (a WD-100+). But then it did the same thing (hanging on initializing) on the next two I tried it on (a WD-100+ and a WS-200+).
The Hubitat Z-Wave radio is giving me tons of issues.
I finally managed to get about 14ish (it's too late to do a full count) paired. But it was a major pain. Almost every time it would get stuck on "Initializing" for a long time. Sometimes it would eventually show up, but sometimes it would fail. And it definitely would never work afterwards until I fully cleaned up the failures. Maybe do a Repair (which is taken 30+ minutes for some reason) and throw in a few reboots for fun.
A few times, it'd get in weird states and no Z-Wave communication would seem to work.
I moved on to trying to pair some contact sensors, and again... it wouldn't work. I have two other Z-Wave hubs here (one of those Aeon Z-Sticks as well as the SmartThings). Both of those work immediately and every time. It's only the Hubitat that's given me all these issues. I've tried for an hour and am giving up on this stupid contact sensor, lol.
I don't know what else to do, but I'm about ready to give up. I've put in probably 12-15 hours over the last couple days fiddling with all this. I could probably get it all set back up on SmartThings in 20 minutes, which is sounding mighty tempting right now.
There have been a number of reports in the forums with various devices getting stuck on the initialization. I know the team is looking into it and I haven't heard of any updates since.
I just finished migrating my 80 zwave devices and the whole mesh is a mess. I have unknown devices, and things are running painfully slow. I just reset the whole thing excluded all devices and am going to carefully add things back. I will know in the first few devices if things are still bad.
If that doesn't help, I'm migrating back to my c4 and going to wait it out.
Yup. They are stuck. Not getting cleaned up by the nightly maintenance. No amount of clicking discover/repair/remove or even rebooting will get rid of them. They are just there.
I just wiped my zwave again. Started by trying to add an aeotec zwave repeater gen5 sitting next to the hub to a blank zwave list (did a full reset). It was stuck in the initialization and did the same thing with an unknown device.
The only way I could get rid of it was by doing a reset again.
I then tried to do a few inovelli gen2 red switches. Same issues. However restarts helped get the first two in there. But then the 3rd switch would not get added no matter what I did (reboot,power cycle etc)
In my logs I see this too.. "Z-Wave Network responded with Busy message." and "Z-Wave Inclusion timed out, status:7". I only had 3 switches all sitting in the same room next to the hub.
At this point I give up until its sorted out.
I can run any tests if you want @bobbyD. I have about 80 zwave devices and a blank zwave list to test with.
Understood. I haven't seen that yet on my C-7, but will watch out for it. I'm maybe 25 devices into my migration, mostly Jasco/GE devices but a few others sprinkled in there too. No Inovelli or HomeSeer though.
I had multiple issues pairing the S2 capable GE Enbrightewn switches. But if it got stuck on initializing I rebooted, unpaired and tried again. In my case it would unpair successfully, so maybe that is why I didn't end up with unknowns - not sure. In the end I get them all paired successfully (non-secure - I only tried a few times to do S2 on them before pairing non-secure).
Yeah... I just tried doing a reset l, too. It is like it gets hung up all the time. Just unchecking all the security options does get me past that initial step, but it still hangs on "Initializing" and only sometimes gets past that and actually works...
It's weird that only some switches ask about security. The ones that don't ask pair immediately.
I played again with an old Aoen Z-Stick and everything paired immediately. But now some switches don't turn on via Zwave command. The paddle's LEDs light up, but the light doesn't turn on.
Everywhere I look, one thing works and another breaks!
I would love to use Hubitat, but it just won't pair some devices and is very troubling pairing others as well as sometimes just not responding... It's got me pretty worried.
Anyway, I'm on a tangent. Technically my original question was answered. I'll mark it as correct and open another thread if I need to.
This is sort of unusual. I can't remember a time where something like this happened in the 18 or so months I have been around here. I am guessing it is a perfect storm of new hardware, new chipset, and new software. This 700 series chip is still fairly new, this might be one of the first hubs to widely adopt it?
You might be having issues right now, but they will likely have it fixed soon. Hubitat has been very responsive to bug fixes in the past, and I don't see any reason they won't do the same with this.
I had my hub lockup when there was a device that didn't pair correctly but after removing it and re-adding it everything has been humming along fine. Check Settings, Z-Wave Details and look for a device that doesn't have the info all the others have. If you do try to un-pair, factory reset the device, and then re-pair with all the boxes unchecked. They're actively working on the S2 issue.
I'm having this same issue. Homeseer WS-100/WS-200 switches it asks for a security code. I have tried nothing, I have tried the security 2 class 0 and 2 class 1.
I have on occasion had the switch show up in devices but then I can't control it.
I also get stuck in an initialization loop/stuck/freeze.
Just got out of Smarthings and started setting this up yesterday 4 devices in and I'm having issues.
If you dont have the code, just uncheck all the security class options.
If you actually want the code they are generally on a sticker on the face of the device under the wall plate.
