My home is fitted throughout with the Cooper (Eaton) light switches and dimmers. Most seem stable, but in a handful of locations, they persistently loose Association with Homeseer.
Of particular annoyance, is the control of my Garage lighting.
I have a Switch in the Entrance Hall and 2 x Accessory switches in the Garage. Started with the Cooper RF9501 in the entrance hall about 5 years back and last year replaced all the switches with the newer S2 versions (RF9601 + accessory).
This issues has persisted through many versions of HS3 and the z-wave plpug-in and continues in the HS4 Beta and the Beta z-wave s2 plug-in.
Upon install, the master switch and accessory switches all show in Homeseer and can be associated with Homeseer and controlled b HSTouch and events.
After a period of a few weeks, the 2 accessory switches loose Association and cease to respond to Homeseer commands and will not respond to a Rescan, Add or Remove from network command. Currently my log is showing "z-wave was unable to negotiate a compatible security scheme with node xx" for the accessory switches.
I do not believe this is related to a weak z-wave network in these locations since the door sensors next to the switches work consistently as well as the tool Z-Tool+. The sensors are battery powered, while the switches are 120v.
It has also been consistent that I am unable to remove these devices from the network. On the odd occasion, running Add to network reconnect a switch, but that is very inconsistent.
Does anyone have any ideas why this occurs? There is little information to help on this from the switch manufacturer and ho hard factory reset option that I can find.
I really do not want to keep replacing the switches every few months.
Optimizing the network has not resolved this problem.
Homeseer runs on a Win10 home platform and uses the homeseer z-wave usb interface.
Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue, or how to get deeper into the system to find the true cause would be beneficial.
Mny thanks for your time reading this.
Steve
Of particular annoyance, is the control of my Garage lighting.
I have a Switch in the Entrance Hall and 2 x Accessory switches in the Garage. Started with the Cooper RF9501 in the entrance hall about 5 years back and last year replaced all the switches with the newer S2 versions (RF9601 + accessory).
This issues has persisted through many versions of HS3 and the z-wave plpug-in and continues in the HS4 Beta and the Beta z-wave s2 plug-in.
Upon install, the master switch and accessory switches all show in Homeseer and can be associated with Homeseer and controlled b HSTouch and events.
After a period of a few weeks, the 2 accessory switches loose Association and cease to respond to Homeseer commands and will not respond to a Rescan, Add or Remove from network command. Currently my log is showing "z-wave was unable to negotiate a compatible security scheme with node xx" for the accessory switches.
I do not believe this is related to a weak z-wave network in these locations since the door sensors next to the switches work consistently as well as the tool Z-Tool+. The sensors are battery powered, while the switches are 120v.
It has also been consistent that I am unable to remove these devices from the network. On the odd occasion, running Add to network reconnect a switch, but that is very inconsistent.
Does anyone have any ideas why this occurs? There is little information to help on this from the switch manufacturer and ho hard factory reset option that I can find.
I really do not want to keep replacing the switches every few months.
Optimizing the network has not resolved this problem.
Homeseer runs on a Win10 home platform and uses the homeseer z-wave usb interface.
Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue, or how to get deeper into the system to find the true cause would be beneficial.
Mny thanks for your time reading this.
Steve
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