![]() an extra Nortek and an extra Aeon Z-Stick. (When I add 2-3 ZWave Devices I "backup" my Hubitat stick via Zensys Tools or OZWCP. ![]() It's rarely the same particular thing that "fixes it." ![]() that the stick isn't found and I have to do every arcane combo I can think of to get it to initialize properly. I removed the stick, heard the ba-dunk sound of a removed USB device and counted to 5 and stuck it back in. (My windows is a virtual machine running on a Mac Mini) and I rebooted Windows, Zensys Tools wouldn't use the com port. The Com port shows correctly, but the tool refuses to initialize it. The first three times, Zensys Tools fails to find the stick. The tool isn't the same but the symptoms are. I doubt it's related but I just plugged the Nortek USB stick into a Windows system running Zensys Tools. That said, a couple of times after I upgraded I have had dimmers that just stop responding, even when pressing the paddle manually they just don't do anything and the only way to fix them is to use the air gap lever to restart it, so I'm much happier now but this new firmware still has some bug somewhere. You then join the stick as a secondary controller to your hubitat Z-Wave network and begin upgrading.Īll my problems with the Leviton switches / dimmers were solved once I did this upgrade which was a god send, specially the fact that now when I manually use a matching remote on a 3-way setup the status gets quickly updated in the hub, this was not broken before. The alternative is to buy the USB stick, it does not need to be the HomeSeer one, you can use the Aeon one or the Zooz one (this one is cheap and claims to be the first stick to support S2 which may be good in the future if you want to use it for something else). The downside is your home automation will be down while you do this. ![]() My guess is this might "break" it, but that is who I am and I am willing to buy another HE stick or rejoin as needed.Īctually what you did is that easiest / fastest / cheapest way to go about it, it should not break or damage anything as long as you are careful and properly shut down Hubitat before removing the USB stick. Again this worked, but can I go back? The plan is to "remove from network" and put back in HE. I always have to push the envelope so I used the "add to existing" network feature to jump on the ST network and update some switches from there. From what I have read the Z wave network/device info is on the stick but automations and stuff are on the controller (again no expert just what I have absorbed).Īs for GE they are not listed, in fact the list is small, ![]() Technically I did not change any configuration so I am not sure it would, but an AM NOT a Zwave expert and this is totally "as-is" info. I don't have a ton of automation in HE yet, but from what I saw it didn't mind/know about the change. I put it back in, booted up HE, and I still had control of the devices via web UI. ![]()
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