I finally got all of my devices (wemo, lifx, zigbee and zwave) working, I have learned to have significant patience in dealing with building out three mesh networks... That said the devices unlike ST go on/off incredibly quick. Its like flicking the light switch for the most part which is super cool.
The last problem is with my dashboard. All of my devices display on an off (wemo, lifx, zigbee, motio, groups, etc) with the exception of my ZWAVE devices. Most are not zwave+
When I turn them on or off, the group that I have them in reflects the change but the individual lights do not. Two of them say they are always on (they are not) and the others will go into hourglass mode. If I refresh the dashboard they still go back to a clickable state (no hourglass) but the state is still wrong. If I go into the device page and the device, I can easily turn it on and off instantaneously.
Any ideas how to resolve. I really would like a working dashboard.
@bcopeland I think I am using the right driver since it identifies the switch correctly in the device page but would you have any other suggestions on what I should change to make the dashboard more useful/reliable?
Sorry for the direct message but I found a post saying you wrote a driver for this old switch. Have a bunch and everything works but the dashboard refresh so I hate to replace.
Wow.. Someone sold these recently?.. They are ancient.. Also these are very pre-plus and will likely require polling if you aren’t sending commands to it.
I have had them from the beginning of my ST days with my v1 hub that I just switched to HE. I’m not that old They still work great but the dashboard is the only place I have an issue. Device page works great.
When I installed poller they don’t show. Do I need to switch something in order to poll?
They turn on and off instantaneously on the device page. On the dashboard if I click it it shows an hourglass and never refreshes. If I refresh the dashboard page the hourglass is gone but the status is incorrect.
In testing it again right now the switch is fast but the status on the far right is slow to update on my phone. If I hit refresh after waiting a bit it does. I thought it was flipping faster last night and I was not hitting refresh but that’s how it’s acting right now.
if you look in the logs you can see polling.. or alternatively set a rule to stop polling and restart every so often.. there you have more control and can say how often to poll and do all regular zwave devices that need it in one rule.
I'm also having issues with the dashboard that really limit the usefulness of the HE. Without a reliable dashboard, it's pretty much a huge problem. Here's the thread: Endless wait icons and incorrect status
turning on form the dashboard /switch is not the same as the device handler..
you need to see how often the device handler updates when physically turning the device on or off or as you summized the dashboard. some device handlers will flip the on/off immediately when you do it through the device handler.. that is not the same as the device sending the status update messages.
you could still have issues with needing polling for non zwave/plus devices.. or mesh issues..
Ok just wanted to add a word of thanks here. It took me a bit to understand what people were suggesting I do but I think I now have it working. For those coming after me and myself so I dont forget:
Issue: I have a number of Aeon Labs Appliance Devices. They are Zwave and not Zwave plus devices. If you set up Poller they do not show as items to poll. While they work and will turn the switches on/off fast the dashboard shows them in an incorrect or hourglass state.
Solution: A couple people told me my network probably has gaps. In looking at it, they are probably right and as I replace these devices with ZWave+ devices I will make these just a repeater somewhere to build up the mesh.
In order to fix the dashboard display, I have set up a Rule to do a poll and am running that only for the devises that have a light attached to them (not those I have relegated to repeaters) and do it every 2 minutes (might make it longer but prefer taking the lights off of them and not polling them at all). I really did not understand this until @bcopeland asked me some questions and again said i might need to poll and most importantly @kahn-hubitat literally told me just to hit the poll button which clear the issue on the dashboard and then set the rule. For some reasons when others told me to use poller, I didn't get that just because they were not showing in that app, that polling would fix it. Yes, I was a bit slow.
They still work great but the dashboard is the only place I have an issue. Device page works great.
Is there any way I can tell that's on/make sure it stays on?
