How Do I Update The Firmware On A ZSE44 LR?

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A ZSE44 LR of mine has high battery usage.
I want to update the firmware.
How do I do this?
The Hubitat firmware updater app only seems to have non-LR devices.
I haven't done firmware updates on an LR device, apparently, so I don't know how to do this.
Any help appreciated.

edit: I'm on JS

Excluding the device, including as mesh, upgrading firmware, excluding device, re-including as LR device, apps, etc, would be a drag. Has this been fixed? Is there a way?

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Yes, that's my understanding for the currently LR upgrade method
And yes, it's a drag.
And yes, it hasn't been fixed.

I'm sure it's on their list, but as to a priority...

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Not to be a hair-on-fire type guy, but that's frigging ridiculous at this point.

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I don't disagree, but that doesn't really change the status quo...
Also see here: [GUIDE] Z-Wave device - how to update firmware using the driver method

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You can try that alternate flow, but I recall having some kind of issue with it on JS.

As the writer of that flow, I suppose I should know better, but since that write-up was orginally targeted to S2 devices updates, I've quit using it since the built-in method was finally fixed (pre-JS) for S2/LR... But I'd be curious to hear if that method works for anyone else on LR/JS.

At one point after JS rolled out, I know I successfully used the built-in method to update LR (and mesh S2) devices on JS -- I discovered the hard way that a reboot was necessary between update attempts, but it did work overall.

I know because that's how I updated my own LR/JS zse44s to 2.10 this past spring.

But more recently, I've been unable to update an LR devices on JS using built-in updater... For my zse11, I had to put in back on mesh to do the update.

So hopefully @bcopeland can take a look at the built-in updater -- since it was working with JS at one point, hopefully it's not a huge lift to get it back on the rails.

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I successfully updated firmware in mesh mode.
Dashboard was the only rule involved for this device-I have several more, with one having more complex rules.
@jtp10181 's SmartStart app helped with the transitions, as did a few 4-clicks to wake up the device.