I am in a spot of trouble...
I had my ZW6HD-1RW working fine, but decided to try out this new driver. Something very wrong happened. The Switch buttons seem to have come decoupled from the actual light relay!!
The physical buttons, nor remote commands will no longer turn off or control the lights. I can see the side LEDs operate when i send remote commands, but again the command do not operated the actual lights either.
How did I break this?
I have tried changing back to the generic driver, and pressing configure, but am having no luck with that either. It there a way to recouple the buttons? Engage the relay?
I can not linger turn off my lights.
Thanks in advance.
Edit: the current states show my number of buttons at 0...?
Edit 2: When I press a button, top or bottom (dimmer buttons do not appear in the log for some reason), I get this in the debug log:
[dev:1]2025-01-14 10:36:22.083 PM debug
Basement Dimmer - Main: level is set to 95% (physical) [NOT CHANGED]
[dev:1] 2025-01-14 10:36:22.081 PM debug
Basement Dimmer - Main: switch is turned on (physical) [NOT CHANGED]
[dev:1]2025-01-14 10:35:59.124 PM debug
Basement Dimmer - Main: level is set to 95% (physical) [NOT CHANGED]
[dev:1]2025-01-14 10:35:59.121 PM debug
Basement Dimmer - Main: switch is turned on (physical) [NOT CHANGED]
As a last resort, you can try a factory reset. But first make a virtual replacement dimmer and swap it in to your rules as a place holder. Then you can exclude and remove the physical switch after which use the switches toggle and hold it down until it goes into reset (about 14ish seconds refer to the instruction sheet). Then you can include it back into hubitat, and replace it back into your rules. I remembered I had to do that to one of the dimmers because when switching to the universal driver not all of the settings fields showed up. Lifting the bar or power cycling it had no effect. All is good now. Some times these devices can get a little fiddly.
Hi all / @jtp10181
I just got
Leviton Decora Smart Dimmer Z-Wave 800 Series, ZW6HD-1RW
configured to use Generic Z-Wave DT Binary Switch
and Leviton Decora Smart Switch Z-Wave 800 Series, ZW15S-1RW
configured to use Generic Z-Wave DT Multilevel Switch
Is this the current recommended drivers to run for these? thank you.
Since those devices do not offer any scene/button actions then yes those built in drivers should get you everything. These would also work: [DRIVER] Universal Z-Wave Drivers (Switch/Dimmer)
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Hey Jeff, have you done any testing / bake-off of the Generic DT vs Generic Plus variants? Are they effectively the same except for signatures?
I have not done any specific comparison testing. I actually do not typically use the built in drivers at all, I avoid them. I have been testing the DT dimmer/switch driver since 2.4.0 though, just for the same of testing.
The "DT" drivers stands for "Device Type", and they are very type specific right now. So if its a dimmer driver that's all it has on it, no buttons support or anything extra. IMO they feel like examples except they are not open source.
The biggest difference is the DT drivers will discover the settings from the device if it supports the config command class v3 or higher, same as my Universal driver set. Other than that I assume they are very similar to the Plus drivers of the same class.
So really the DT drivers are more geared towards 700 and 800 chip devices which support the newer command classes. They would probably work on many older devices as well, but I am not sure if they will support the very old "hail" commands that some Leviton devices use. Mine for sure do since it was an easy add I kept the hail support in there.
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Love your driver's as you provide access to lots of device features. I don't know why but on the driver used for the Zen20 power strip in the preferences where the auto on off field is, the channels go Ch1, Ch2, Ch2, Ch4. Ch3 and Ch5 are missing.
Thanks!
Looks like I may have messed some stuff up copying and pasting on the ZEN20 settings. I did not have one of those devices at the time I made it so I was flying blind with users testing only. I have one now (still in box), so I will have to bust it out and verify everything myself finally.
