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(SOLVED)Dianemo S - Zwave with MK Astral 2G Switch
« on: July 03, 2012, 03:48:23 am »
Hi Guys

I have today finally recieved the remaing bits I needed to have a play with Zwave.

After a few hours of fighting I found that the com port needed setting for the zwave device to work and one of my Duwi Doro dimmers was faulty.

I now have one Duwi Doro dimmer and one Duwi Doro Switch working fine.

I then went onto try and connect up the MK Astral 2G switch. This is where I hit a brick wall. No matter what I do I can only get the system to recognise a single switch.

It appears to include it ok. Both lights flash green three times. But only the one gets added. The one that gets added when I press the button on the switch it flashed green 3 times when switching light on and off. The second switch does not flash just turns the light on or off. From Dianemo I only see one light switch and this only turns the first switch in the dual gang on or off.

Anyone got any ideas on this one?

I have tried adding this on its own to the system and still have the same problem.

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« Last Edit: July 03, 2012, 03:26:26 pm by fibres »

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Re: (SOLVED)Dianemo S - Zwave with MK Astral 2G Switch
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2012, 03:27:12 pm »
Classic case of RTFM from top to bottom.

In particular the wiki page on zwave devices where I would have seen the bit that tells me to manually add the second paddle on the switch!

DOH!

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Re: (SOLVED)Dianemo S - Zwave with MK Astral 2G Switch
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2012, 10:58:24 am »
Classic case of RTFM from top to bottom.

In particular the wiki page on zwave devices where I would have seen the bit that tells me to manually add the second paddle on the switch!

DOH!

Hi,

I'm just catching up with my messages after taking a few days off and read the above this morning;

Yeah the 2nd gang paddle needs to be manually added right now. We do intend to make multi-level switches auto add but currently you must add them manually. There are two approaches;

- Add all your switches/dimmers. Then go back and add the 2nd gang paddle to each. Disadvantage is that all your 2nd paddles will be separated sequentially from their 1st paddle.

- Add one 2g switch/dimmer. Then before adding any more add the 2nd paddle. Advantage is they will be in sequence... disadvantage is it's more work and tedious!

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