ChadS

How are devices with multiple association groups handled? For example, with the GE Z-Wave Plus switches and dimmers, Group 1 is status, Group 2 is for directly controlling other devices (I.e. virtual 3-way, 4-way, 5-way, etc circuits), and Group 3 is for directly controlling other devices by double tapping the device. Just above every other Z-Wave controller I’ve used includes an option to turn off management of Z-Wave associations.

I’ve found that starting with 5.12 (I think), if the ISY is added into an existing network, it will erase any existing associations in all the nodes and create new associations to just the ISY. Needless to say nobody in the house was happy when all of a sudden none of the virtual 3 way switches using the GoControl WT00Z-1 switches would control any lights anymore nor did any of the lights controlled using the double tap feature of the GE ZWave Plus switches function either. I’m not happy that I now need to rebuild all those direct associations on every switch (30+ switches total)! The ISY never touched those associations before and only removed associations that existed to nodes not on the network. Until either this “feature” can be disabled or it’s rolled back to the way it functioned before, the ISY just isn’t an option for me now for Z-Wave and I’ve had to exclude it from my Z-Wave network. Doesn’t seem like much thought was put into this change in functionality or the impact it would have.