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- muddymickey - 08-10-2020
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!!
- slychiu - 08-11-2020
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?
- muddymickey - 08-12-2020
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.
- slychiu - 08-13-2020
Thanks for the confirmation. Counters should also work for Zwave
Can you try using some other counter values besides FE?