I bought a Iris hub and updated firmware on my Iris 3210-L2 plugs with the built in Z-Wave repeaters. I have 7 of these plugs. The zigbee side on all of them paired fine and they are all working correctly. I was able to get 5 of the 7 Z-Wave sides to pair correctly as Z-Wave Repeaters.
This plug keeps pairing as just "Device". There's no fingerprint, and the data shown when Hubitat finds the repeater doesn't look right. This has happened 3 times with the same device. Any ideas? I can change the driver from Device to Generic Z-Wave Repeater, Save, then Refresh and then it shows the device as Active with powerSource mains, so it's communicating, but still no fingerprint or anything shown.
The first time I paired the device, I was able to exclude properly. Tried to pair again, same result, then accidentally tapped the Force Remove button when it appeared. Whoops.
Third time it paired as Device again, and it's still paired. I'm trying to exclude it the right way with no luck so far.
@bobbyD any ideas on this? Firmware on the Iris side is the latest 20115010, which solves the problem with these being poor repeaters according to what I've read here and on other forums.
I know the DNI is different on the below screenshots...7F is from my second pairing attempt that I accidentally force removed. 87 is the current DNI.
I believe so - there was no official driver for it at the time, so I called it a generic switch temporarily. I ended up replacing it with the dimmer version though.
I've got at least a dozen of these updated to the latest firmware and the zigbee side pairs easily.
Zwave on the other hand is a tricky one. Every time I wind up starting from scratch with one of these either on STs or Hubitat I refer to this thread for pairing the Zwave side of things. It's the quick tapping or the button 8 times that seems to do the trick. It's not enough to just be quick. You have to do it in a crazy fast time like 2 seconds for it to be in pairing mode. This assumes the zwave side has been reset properly which is also covered in this thread.
I read somewhere that this process was simplified by Iris firmware updates but never experienced this as I've excluded and repaired the zwave side of things since updating the firmware on these devices.
I'd wonder if the missing fingerprint and other bits is because of an incomplete pairing process.
In other HA implementations (e.g. OpenHab and HomeAssistant), although they are not nearly as "user friendly" as HE or ST, they do have greater capabilities to really visualize the z wave network.
However, as I've written in other places, the progress that HE has made in one short year, is nothing short of phenomenal. It's quite an achievement to get such a product up and running, and performing in such a short period of time.
While it's true that HE is not as mature as some other Home Automation products, if they continue the way they've been going, my opinion is that they will catch up.
I’ll soon be posting a stripped down version of the repeater driver I wrote for SmartThings. With that you can actually ping the plug to see if it’s alive. I’ve mapped the ZWave mesh both in ST and a Hubitat and can confirm that they do repeat.
I just removed this device from my Z-Wave devices, could not get it to participate in a Z-Wave repair either with the native repeater driver or @srwhite's Iris driver, and it didn't refresh the way it was supposed to. This is also the zigbee repeater closest to the Sengled bulbs that sometimes don't respond to commands, so I removed the zigbee side too. Wondering if it's defective or something.
