This is a hypothetical question. I currently have a C5 and a C7 hub. I will be moving soon and going from a single story to a two story house. During the home inspection, I peeked inside some of the electrical boxes and they all appear to be metal and my current home is all plastic boxes. So I was thinking of getting a C8 Pro, mostly for the external antennas and the other features are just a bonus.
However, I have a handful of Zooz ZSE44 temperature sensors. I have 8 total, and out of those 3 of them have had the button on the circuit board fall off. The button is placed very poorly imo and it happened for each of them when replacing the battery. The button is right below the battery and you have to use something to push the battery up from the bottom to get it out. But with the button missing, there is no way to perform a zwave include/exclude or factory reset.
Since I'm moving, I was thinking that what might be best is a fresh start instead of migrating everything from the C8, which itself was migrated from the C5. But if I do it that way, I am not sure if there is any way to migrate just the devices that I will not be able to manually add back.
Ugh. This happened to me. These metal boxes not only interfere with radio transmission, they’re also small, making it difficult to fit a smart switch/dimmer/outlet.
Over two years, I’ve replaced the metal boxes with old work plastic boxes. It isn’t too hard, and I’d recommend it. I’m doing one of the final five today.
I’m speaking from ignorance because I don’t have any of those, but is it really not possible to use a toothpick, etc., to push whatever the missing button was depressing?
Not saying in this thread but if you haven't already done it you might want to start a new thread outlining how you are doing these box changes. Mine are plastic but there might be people on here that is in the same boat and it may really help them out.
The cloud backup migration will move it paired and fully functional to the new hub. You don't need to exclude or anything to move it to the hub with the cloud migration that moves all your device radio data as well.
I agree. I have 16 of these and they are still completely intact, despite using a couple in the freezer and a couple in refrigerators for a few years and changing rechargeable batteries every month or two.
No, I did it by mistake when replacing the battery. The coin battery fits really tight into the holder and I used a small plastic stick (a spudger) to push the battery out, but because of the tight fit, even when pressing as gently as I can, the battery sort of pops out suddenly and I wasn't prepared for this and my hand slipped and the spudger scraped against the button which popped it off. I know the way I originally worded it made it sound like they just randomly fell off, but I was trying to not draw attention to how they came off, but just the fact they are missing.
But this leads to a new question.... how the heck do I get it off the wall? The sticker pad that came with it covers the whole back and there's nothing sticking out. I've tried wedging something thin behind it, but that doesn't seem to be working very well either. I'm pretty sure this thing is going to take a chunk out of my wall when I manage to get it off...
EDIT: Well, shorting the pads seemed to have worked once but I can't seem to replicate it and I'm not sure why...
Dental floss? You can sometimes "saw" through the sticky pad, and then from there try rubbing alcohol or goo-gone to remove the residue. Sometimes you can even just rub/roll the sticker off the wall with your fingers.
Got my multimeter out... The pad on the left has continuity to the metal in the very center of where the button was. The pad on the right has continuity to the little dot in the top right of where the button was. The left and right pad do not have continuity. The two metal dots under the button do not have continuity. So I thought what I needed to do was short the two small dots under the button, but that seems to not do anything.
I am not sure how to simulate a button press. I did it once by accident and the blue light blinked and the logs in HE shows it woke up.
