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Comfort Automation/ Security System Forums > Third Party (interfacing to Comfort) > Zwave > Counters mapped to Z-Wave nodes appear to be read-only ? |
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muddymickey Member
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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  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 |
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slychiu Administrator 
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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? |
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muddymickey Member
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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. |
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slychiu Administrator
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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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