Inovelli LZW30-sn On/Off Switch Comms

[ronvond]

I recently installed an Inovelli LZW30-sn switch in my system.  My system runs v.5.0.15A.  The switch installed without problems following the supplied instructions.  It showed up in my network tree and originally I was able to control it from the Admin console.  After a few hours it would no longer respond to commands from either the Admin console or MobiLinc.  It always worked locally.  The switch was located about 15 feet from my ISY, and within 8 feet of the nearest Z-Wave device.  I thought perhaps there was a problem with the box I was working with, so moved it to another location.  Same results.  i then setup a test circuit which contained the LZW and a 60 watt light fixture, all powered by a pigtail plug.  I plugged the setup into an outlet on my test bench (4 feet from ISY) and everything worked fine.  I moved to an outlet, same circuit, 10 feet away, and again it failed to respond to console or MobiLinc commands.  Still worked fine locally.  I contacted Amazon and will be receiving a replacement in the next few days.

Before writing this I did search your files for Inovelli and did find a few instances.  These were almost a year old, so I'm not sure if they were still valid.  I'll update this after getting the replacement switch.

My troubleshooting had me exclude the switch a couple times and include it back in.  Each time the ID incremented by 1.  ZW010_1, ZW011_1, ZW012_1.  Is this normal, or is there someway I can reset the numbering sequence?

[lilyoyo1]

34 minutes ago, ronvond said:

I recently installed an Inovelli LZW30-sn switch in my system.  My system runs v.5.0.15A.  The switch installed without problems following the supplied instructions.  It showed up in my network tree and originally I was able to control it from the Admin console.  After a few hours it would no longer respond to commands from either the Admin console or MobiLinc.  It always worked locally.  The switch was located about 15 feet from my ISY, and within 8 feet of the nearest Z-Wave device.  I thought perhaps there was a problem with the box I was working with, so moved it to another location.  Same results.  i then setup a test circuit which contained the LZW and a 60 watt light fixture, all powered by a pigtail plug.  I plugged the setup into an outlet on my test bench (4 feet from ISY) and everything worked fine.  I moved to an outlet, same circuit, 10 feet away, and again it failed to respond to console or MobiLinc commands.  Still worked fine locally.  I contacted Amazon and will be receiving a replacement in the next few days.

Before writing this I did search your files for Inovelli and did find a few instances.  These were almost a year old, so I'm not sure if they were still valid.  I'll update this after getting the replacement switch.

My troubleshooting had me exclude the switch a couple times and include it back in.  Each time the ID incremented by 1.  ZW010_1, ZW011_1, ZW012_1.  Is this normal, or is there someway I can reset the numbering sequence?

Yes, the numbering sequence is normal due to how zwave works. There is no way to reset this unless you factory reset your zwave board.

When you moved your device around, did you do a heal? If not that could be part of your problem was zwave uses routed messaging

[ronvond]

19 minutes ago, lilyoyo1 said:

Yes, the numbering sequence is normal due to how zwave works. There is no way to reset this unless you factory reset your zwave board.

When you moved your device around, did you do a heal? If not that could be part of your problem was zwave uses routed messaging

I did try Heal Z-Wave network, Repair Links, and Sync. Nodes.  Nothing seemed to make any difference.  When returning to my test bench everything started working without problems.

 

[brians]

What happens when get to ZW999 ?

The way it increments numbers triggers my OCD.

 

 

[simplextech]

5 minutes ago, brians said:

What happens when get to ZW999 ?

The way it increments numbers triggers my OCD.

 

 

This is not an ISY thing BTW... Z-Wave controllers (the hardware z-wave chip) they increment the device ID number serially.  They will increment until they reach a top max number and then start over using the "unused" numbers.