Yesterday I installed a Fibaro Dimmer and 5 Fibaro Wall Plugs.
The dimmer has two switches: S1 and S2. S2 is associated with the 5 wall plugs, to switch the lights in the living room. S2 switches al the 5 wall plugs nicely via this assocation. All the lights turn on or off together.
A Raspberry Pi 4, with 2Gb memory and Z Wave me UZB stick is running Home Assistant core (docker) and acts as my Z Wave controller. It’s also located in the living room. I can switch the plugs indivudually, use the the dimmer (S1), create associations, etc.
Switching the wall plugs individually works ok.
The problem I have is when I’d like to switch the 5 wall plugs at once (like the S2 assocation). The result is that 3 or 4 of the plugs will switch, the others after a long time. I tried a scene, a group, an automation with 5 entities.
The OZW log shows errors like these, when this happens:
2020-05-03 20:53:32.016 Info, Node010, Value::Set - COMMAND_CLASS_SWITCH_BINARY - Switch - 0 - 1 - True
2020-05-03 20:53:32.016 Info, Node010, SwitchBinary::Set - Setting node 10 to On
2020-05-03 20:53:32.017 Detail, Node010, Queuing (Send) SwitchBinaryCmd_Set (Node=10): 0x01, 0x0a, 0x00, 0x13, 0x0a, 0x03, 0x25, 0x01, 0xff, 0x25, 0x3d, 0x2c
2020-05-03 20:53:32.017 Detail, Node010, Queuing (Send) SwitchBinaryCmd_Get (Node=10): 0x01, 0x09, 0x00, 0x13, 0x0a, 0x02, 0x25, 0x02, 0x25, 0x3e, 0xd1
2020-05-03 20:53:32.017 Detail,
2020-05-03 20:53:32.017 Info, Node010, Sending (Send) message (Callback ID=0x3d, Expected Reply=0x13) - SwitchBinaryCmd_Set (Node=10): 0x01, 0x0a, 0x00, 0x13, 0x0a, 0x03, 0x25, 0x01, 0xff, 0x25, 0x3d, 0x2c
2020-05-03 20:53:32.025 Detail, Node010, Received: 0x01, 0x04, 0x01, 0x13, 0x01, 0xe8
2020-05-03 20:53:32.025 Detail, Node010, ZW_SEND_DATA delivered to Z-Wave stack
2020-05-03 20:53:32.067 Detail, Node010, Received: 0x01, 0x05, 0x00, 0x13, 0x3d, 0x00, 0xd4
2020-05-03 20:53:32.067 Detail, Node010, ZW_SEND_DATA Request with callback ID 0x3d received (expected 0x3d)
2020-05-03 20:53:32.067 Info, Node010, Request RTT 50 Average Request RTT 74
2020-05-03 20:53:32.067 Detail, Expected callbackId was received
2020-05-03 20:53:32.067 Detail, Expected reply was received
2020-05-03 20:53:32.068 Detail, Message transaction complete
2020-05-03 20:53:32.068 Detail,
2020-05-03 20:53:32.068 Detail, Node010, Removing current message
2020-05-03 20:53:32.068 Detail,
2020-05-03 20:53:32.068 Info, Node010, Sending (Send) message (Callback ID=0x3e, Expected Reply=0x04) - SwitchBinaryCmd_Get (Node=10): 0x01, 0x09, 0x00, 0x13, 0x0a, 0x02, 0x25, 0x02, 0x25, 0x3e, 0xd1
2020-05-03 20:53:32.077 Detail, Node010, Received: 0x01, 0x04, 0x01, 0x13, 0x01, 0xe8
2020-05-03 20:53:32.077 Detail, Node010, ZW_SEND_DATA delivered to Z-Wave stack
2020-05-03 20:53:32.319 Detail, Node010, Received: 0x01, 0x05, 0x00, 0x13, 0x3e, 0x00, 0xd7
2020-05-03 20:53:32.319 Detail, Node010, ZW_SEND_DATA Request with callback ID 0x3e received (expected 0x3e)
2020-05-03 20:53:32.319 Info, Node010, Request RTT 251 Average Request RTT 162
2020-05-03 20:53:32.319 Detail, Expected callbackId was received
2020-05-03 20:53:32.857 Detail, Node010, Received: 0x01, 0x0e, 0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x0a, 0x06, 0x31, 0x05, 0x04, 0x22, 0x00, 0x79, 0xcf, 0x00, 0x5d
2020-05-03 20:53:32.857 Detail,
2020-05-03 20:53:32.858 Info, Node010, Response RTT 789 Average Response RTT 603
2020-05-03 20:53:32.858 Info, Node010, Received SensorMultiLevel report from node 10, instance 1, Power: value=12.1W
2020-05-03 20:53:32.858 Detail, Node010, Refreshed Value: old value=0.0, new value=12.1, type=decimal
2020-05-03 20:53:32.858 Detail, Node010, Changes to this value are not verified
2020-05-03 20:53:32.858 Detail, Node010, Notification: ValueChanged
2020-05-03 20:53:42.069 Error, Node010, ERROR: Dropping command, expected response not received after 1 attempt(s)
2020-05-03 20:53:42.069 Detail, Node010, Removing current message
2020-05-03 20:53:42.069 Detail, Node010, Notification: Notification - TimeOut
These errors also occur on node 6, 7, etc.
Why does this happen? What can I do about it?
Restarted Home Assistant, did a heal network, etc.
And with trying I also stumbled upon another little issue: the button card does not change color when used with a group entity, also mentioned in another topic.