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Counters mapped to Z-Wave nodes appear to be read-only ?
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 Posted: Monday Aug 10th, 2020 09:33 pm
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Hi
I have several Aeotec dimmer modules in my Z-Wave network, each of these nodes is mapped to a counter in Comfort.
If I look at the list of counters in Comfigurator, and tick "Show Status", I can see the expected values change in real time as I turn lights on/off or dim them from the wall switches.
However whenever I try and write a value to the counter, the counter status briefly changes to the requested value before reverting back to the previous state.It's as if the counters are "read only".If I try and set counter 31 to a value of 254, while the lights are switched off, I see the following messages on the UCM I/O monitor
> C!1FFE00
< OK
< CT1FFE00
> C?1F
< C?1FFE00
< CT1F0000
If I view the Z-Wave node in the "Z-Wave mapping" tab of the Z-Wave UCM, and click "Switch Device On", the lights come on.So the ability to communicate via Z-Wave is OK, it seems an issue with the counters?

The Z-Wave device is setup as such:D
DeviceID: 31
Description: Routing_Slave - Power_Switch_Multilevel
Node Type: BasicListening: Yes
Register Type: Counter
Ch1 Register Number: 31
Ch1 Register Name: Counter031
Using:Comfigurator V3.13.3.0 
Comfort II Ultra firmware 7.160
Z-Wave UCM firmware 7.102 Thanks for any help!!

Last edited on Tuesday Aug 11th, 2020 02:57 am by slychiu



 Posted: Tuesday Aug 11th, 2020 03:00 am
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The counters cannot be read only. The zwave device may be preventing changes to it in some way
Can you try using tge Zwave actions to sebd commands instead?



 Posted: Wednesday Aug 12th, 2020 03:48 pm
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Thanks, using ZWave actions seems to work.

I'd been using the counter approach for some time, based on the instructions in the UCM Zwave manual, but it stopped working. I have updated Comfigurator, and the firmwares on Comfort and the Z-Wave UCM so perhaps that caused it ?

Anyway, working now, thanks for the prompt help.



 Posted: Thursday Aug 13th, 2020 02:07 am
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Thanks for the confirmation. Counters should also work for Zwave

Can you try using some other counter values besides FE?



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