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 Posted: Saturday Apr 19th, 2014 12:40 pm
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Hi, not sure if this is the right place to post but here goes:

I've upgraded the Zwave firmware to this 7.043 from the 7.031. i think from 7.031 my zwave network of vitrum switches starts to behave really badly. I was thinking that 7.046 would solve the problems but it didn't, so I resetted my entire zwave network including the UCM module and factory defaulting the MK Astral remote so that i start afresh with 7.046. I have also upgraded the eth02 UCM and logic engine firmware to the lastest available. The configurator is also latest using 3.8.6.0. Let me list the problems:

1. Cosmetics:  All UCMs including the logic engine's serial number became "invalid" or "not assigned".
2. Some crash messages sometimes when i navigate to list the counters.
3. Previously comfort zwave can differentiate accurately the type of multi-channel switches. Now it can still differentiate between the satelite, scene and relay on-off and relay dimmer switches. However all switches only has a single channel regardless of whether the actual switch is 2 or 4 buttons/channel.
4. Configuring responses with "Basic Set Command" become problematic as I cannot set which channel of the switch to control. Previously, i can controller multiple channels of the same switch in 1 line using commas, but the current configurator response wizard only allows me to type in nothing (as in not filling the blank) or 1. Typing in 2 will give error. Typing anything else including comma will give error saying "Value must be in range 1-1". Manually configuring the response also doesn't seem to trigger the switch buttons.
5. Related to problem 4, the response configured with blank in the channel field will be able to control button 1 of the switch. Configuring the channel to "1" (which is the only value i can use due to problem 4) will not allow the response to control any button on the switch.

I think this problem may be configurator as well as firmware related but I have encountered other more serious issues!!
i was having very delayed actions from associated switches. I can have 2 associated switches side by side which takes more than 5 secs to trigger each other's button. Seemed like some form of zwave storm or loop that is occuring. On top of that some switches do not even trigger its associated peer anymore. Reassociating resolve the problem for less than a few hrs and it reverted back to the problematic stage. Some response scrpts doesn't do anything anymore. This happened immediately after i updated to 7.031 from a firmware i don't remember the version number.

Currently everything is factory resetted and re included. Switches are rassociated to the desired relationship. I did not managed to program anything in comfort thanks to the problems encountered. I will monitor for a few days to see if the delay problem resurface.

Any help is appreciated.

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