Hello there, I was having issues with some of my z-wave devices not updating there status correctly after being turned on or off manually from the device itself. After further research i found out about the Z-wave poller app, I did install and seems to fix the problem for a while until it breaks down again. The found workaround was to manually stop the polling and restart again which works for me except I rather have this task scheduled overnight instead of me manually running it. So I started looking into RM but found the following issue which I hope some.of you have seen before and possibly got a fix or a workaround.
RM is not showing my Z-wave dimmer devices listed but only my Z-wave switches. I have 7 dimmers and 2 switches listed when using the Z-wave poller but you only see the 2 switches and no dimmers listed in RM as you see below
In RM
I am thinking if this is a driver issue then I will see the problem in both sides but I am a relatively new Habitat user and hopefully some of you experienced ones will be able to help. Thanks in advance.
That is because you have it set to display only switches:
You will need to add a second, similar option and slide this option to "Dimmer" to see dimmers.
Note that RM does not actually poll these devices. This action adds or removes these devices to/from the Z-Wave Poller app, which is still necessary to do the actual work.
That being said, what devices are these? Polling is not necessary for most modern Z-Wave devices. If yours aren't old enough to need this feature (a set of classic Z-Wave devices where the manufacturer chose not to license a relevant patent), some other problem could be the cause...
Hey Bert, if you look at my last screenshot, you see me selecting the dimmer option and it is not displaying any. These are GE dimmer switches that worked very well with SmartThings before migrating to Hubitat. When status is not updating correctly, it will mess up my automation. Remember when manually stopping and restating polling via the Z-wave poller, the problem goes away for few days before needing to stop/restart again. All what I was trying to do is to schedule this task using RM. do you know of a way to schedule this stop/restart task on a daily basis? Thanks
"Switch" is still bold, which is normally what RM thinks is your selection and was the basis for my claim. I think that's just a display issue, though something that confounded the real problem.
However, you do appear to be running into a different problem where it doesn't actually show dimmers. Tagging @bravenel, as a quick look of the code shows there could be a small typo of "Dimmmer" here causing this. 
(Not sure about the "Switch / Dimmer" bold display problem but hopefully something equally easy...)
But I should reiterate that this won't actually change the Z-Wave Poller behavior aside from adding or removing these devices from its selections, so all the notes in my post above are still worth looking at. I am not aware of any way to start or stop Z-Wave Poller itself outside its UI, but it also shouldn't just stop on its own. If the schedule gets lost for some reason, a hub reboot looks like another thing that should bring it back.
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OK, this is not a super obvious UI, but the UI switch with a label where one side is bold and the other not, is set to what is bold. Flip the switch, and bold will flip to the other side. So you have Switch selected in RM, so it shows you the two switches. You could set that UI toggle to Dimmer, and you'd see the dimmers.
What is underlying both RM and the Z-Wave Poller is the fact that the polling function uses dedicated processing in the built-in drivers for Z-Wave Switch and Z-Wave Dimmer. The device selection is separated into Dimmers and Switches because at run time it matters which type it is, dimmer or switch.
In the case of RM, you would need two actions to start polling, one for your dimmers and one for your switches, and two to stop polling.
Yep, thanks for the catch. Only a UI cosmetic thing with zero impact. Thanks, the fix is in...
Hey Bruce, if you look at my original post, the last screenshot shows the dimmer is selected but none is displayed. So the UI toggle is set to dimmer but none of my 7 dimmers are displayed or can be selected for either stopping or starting polling. Thanks for your response.
Ah, I missed that. I'll take a look at this...
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This only works for the built-in GenericZ-WaveDimmer driver. If you are using some other driver, the devices will not show up and polling probably won't work, at least not with RM or Z-Wave Poller.
What driver is in use for these dimmers?
The bug is more than cosmetic. Fix will be coming in next release.
Yes Bruce, I am using the built-in GenericZ-WaveDimmer driver for all my dimmer devices. Remember all devices including dimmers are being displayed via the Z-Wave poller app.
