Factory reset Zwave devices

[asbril]

Yesterday I tried to change primary control from ISY to a Mini Mote, encountered problems and did a Dongle factory reset to switch primary control back to ISY.

I did a ISY restore from a recent backup but that did not work very well either. I then did a Remove and Include of all of my (30+) Zwave devices.

That worked for all but 2 of my devices that 'refuse' to be removed or included.

I looked all over the internet (and in this forum) for a way to perform a factory reset of these 2 GE light switches but was not able to find anything.

 

In short my question is whether there is a way to re-include these 2 light switches that worked perfectly before my dongle factory reset.

 

[Chris Jahn]

Hi Asbril,

 

If you cannot exclude or include the devices into the network, I'm not sure, but I think you can factory reset them by pulling out the little airgap button at the bottom of the switch.  You may want to do a google search online for the Z-Wave details of your switch.

[asbril]

Chris (and for everyone's benefit),

 

That 'trick' seemed to have worked on one of the two GE switches and now I was able to re-include the switch to my ISY. It did not work for the other GE switch. However it came to me that I might have accidentally included that second switch to the mini mote.  I excluded the switch from the mini mote and was able to re-include the last remaining switch to my ISY.

 

I never intended to include that switch to the mini mote but possibly when I was  'playing' with the mini mote someone in my household activated that particular switch just when I had put the mini mote in inclusion protocol.

 

Anyway, all is back to normal.  Thanks for your assistance.

[Chris Jahn]

Hi Asbril,

 

Glad to hear you managed to get those devices back into your network.