richardl007 Posted July 15, 2020 Posted July 15, 2020 I have been using ISY99 with insteon for years and have just moved to a new house and started over from zero. I installed some Leviton z-wave light switches and a new ISY99-z . The issue I'm having is that the z wave switches do not update the status on ISY automatically. If I query the switch the status gets updated properly, but If I manually turn on a light and don't run a query in ISY the status is wrong in the ISY?
Michel Kohanim Posted July 15, 2020 Posted July 15, 2020 @richardl007, some of the older Leviton versions do not support change of state reports. With kind regards, Michel
richardl007 Posted July 15, 2020 Author Posted July 15, 2020 I just bought them. They are Leviton DZ15S-1RZ & DZ6HD-1RZ. What would you recommend as the best Z Wave switches?
JBanaszak Posted July 15, 2020 Posted July 15, 2020 The older switches send out a “Hail” signal when activated. If you want to keep what you have, There is a thread here describing how to write a simple program to work around this issue, which is what I do. Quick search for “Hail” should find it but let me know if you need more help. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
richardl007 Posted July 15, 2020 Author Posted July 15, 2020 I'm sorry, I can not find the thread with how to write a simple program to work around this issue. Can you please point me in the right direction?
sn0cr4sh Posted July 26, 2020 Posted July 26, 2020 So once you make the Hail program to force a Query, whats the proper way to act on it? I have another program set up that will run if a switch is "OFF". So do you need to Query "Control -> Is Switched Off", or "Status -> Is Off"? Or do you Query both of those with an OR Condition? Had this exact same issue - I have several Leviton DZ15S switches and it was driving me crazy that I couldn't get status on them until I did a Hail program. I didn't know they were "older".
JBanaszak Posted July 26, 2020 Posted July 26, 2020 I am not the expert here but given these are older switches, it might be more dependable to set a state variable to track the light on/off condition then use that as a trigger for your program.
sn0cr4sh Posted July 26, 2020 Posted July 26, 2020 On 7/15/2020 at 1:27 PM, JBanaszak said: The older switches send out a “Hail” signal when activated. If you want to keep what you have, There is a thread here describing how to write a simple program to work around this issue, which is what I do. Quick search for “Hail” should find it but let me know if you need more help. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I'm confused on this now. I bought 4 of these switches from the same Amazon listing. They are all DZ15S switches. Some of them only send a Hail signal but don't update status in real-time while others send a full Report and are constantly up to date in real-time. How is that possible? Did Leviton update these and not differentiate them with a new model number?
JBanaszak Posted July 26, 2020 Posted July 26, 2020 As I said, someone else will have to weigh in here because I have older Leviton switches. My "oldest old" switch is bottom toggle only and does update status. My "old" switch (and matching dimmer switches) has a top/bottom toggle design and does not update status, requiring the "hail" program above. I searched your switch number on Amazon and noticed a "-1BZ" tagged onto the number for the "latest zwave capabilities", which leads me to believe that Leviton is keeping the same main switch number and designating capabilities with the modifier. I am not surprised at all that Amazon sent two different age switches in the same order. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
lilyoyo1 Posted July 26, 2020 Posted July 26, 2020 56 minutes ago, sn0cr4sh said: I'm confused on this now. I bought 4 of these switches from the same Amazon listing. They are all DZ15S switches. Some of them only send a Hail signal but don't update status in real-time while others send a full Report and are constantly up to date in real-time. How is that possible? Did Leviton update these and not differentiate them with a new model number? It's possible that they are the "same" switch but different firmware.
sn0cr4sh Posted July 26, 2020 Posted July 26, 2020 17 minutes ago, lilyoyo1 said: It's possible that they are the "same" switch but different firmware. Oh, that could certainly explain it. They are all labeled Z-Wave Plus, bought in the last 4 months, and no markings to indicate a difference. Firmware could very well be different.
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