[question] Lights status not updated when changed physically

[jbuggie]

I have a few light swiches, mostly GE-12724 Dimmer 3-way switches and WD500Z-1. I don't think they send status update when physically turned on/off. I was using Domoticz and had to set polling to yes on these to get their statuses update in a timely manner.

I'm testing out zwave2mqtt the latest version via docker and it seems their statuses do not get polled. In the zwave control panel, the poll interval is set at 250ms and timeout set to 60s. I have about 20 devices on the network.

When activated via mqtt or zwave2mqtt control panel, their statuses got updated properly.

How should I go about troubleshooting this problem? Thanks.

[robertsLando]

@jbuggie I suggest you to switch to https://github.com/zwave-js/zwavejs2mqtt/

[jbuggie]

@robertsLando thanks. I tried it, similar problem.

[robertsLando]

@jbuggie This is a device issue, it's the device that should tell me that an update has happen, could you try to check if there configuration options for this or if there are firmware updates for the device?

[jbuggie]

@robertsLando I don't know the exact details but these older swtiches don't send update due to a patent by Lutron (expired now). I don't think there is any firmware update for them. Domoticz got a around it polling their status every so often. I got the status change in Domoticz about 60s after it happens, which is ok.

[robertsLando]

@jbuggie So you can enable poll of that value, from gateway values table, and choose the poll interval

[jbuggie]

@robertsLando That's exactly what I did but still it does not refresh their statuses. I gave up and go back to domoticz and mqtt. A simple script to republish domoticz/in is all I need to interface with HA.

[depetewes]

Same HA issue here. Din Dimmer from Qubino(ZMNHSDx Din Dimmer, Qubino (Goap)) is not updated in
Zwave2Mqtt when changed physically.
Could be related to "Update OpenZWave database" 1.6.974-r0 ee90c896c137b3a473232565c45a51d70c41c431 ?