Can someone confirm or did old Zooz switches update the app?

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I haven’t really paid much attention to this because I don’t usually look at the app status for this reason. But I could swear that the old first and second generation of the zooz switches (Zen21, Zen22) would update the app with their status on a physical press of the switch. This was way back in the groovy days, but I’m not seeing that with the latest and that’s even the case with a newer v3 hub. If I turn it on or off, the app doesn’t know the status until I force a refresh.

Am I just remembering incorrectly? Can anyone out there verify?

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I have 26 older generation Zooz switches and dimmers. One ZEN21, the rest are ZEN26 or ZEN27. All connected to SmartThings V2/2015 hub. Most, possibly all, use the Zooz driver. Some might be on the stock Z-Wave Switch driver. None of my Z-Wave devices are using S2 security, FWIW.

All of them correctly reflect their status when manually operated.

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The ones I’m working with are Zen21-Zen24 and predate the Zen26 and Zen27. It’s interesting that even the Zen21 updates for you. I’m guessing that was v3, which had a lot of updates. I may just be using switches that pre-dated sending anything on physical press. I did a bunch of testing last night and never saw anything get sent on press, contrary to my own memory, although I did have some zen26 and zen27 as well, so maybe that’s what I’m recalling since it’s been so long.

If you don’t mind, can you tell me which version of the Zen21 you’re using?.

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The Zooz driver gives me the firmware level. It says my ZEN21 is on version 3.02.

And my email archives show that the device is “ZEN21-VER3”, shipped on November 25, 2019.

Some of my ZEN26s and ZEN27s are the original version of those, some are VER2 according to my emails. All acquired between late 2018 and early 2020.

To my recollection they have always reflected status to the hub when manually operated.

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Not sure if this related to these particular switches and their age or what, but it turns out that an extra power drop restored reporting on press for me. Specifically what I get with one of them was to exclude it, cut power for a minute, include on a zst10 via zwave pc controller so I could check firmware and test it. Found it was working, excluded it and reincluded it to smartthings and it was reporting properly. But for 3 of the 4 that had this issue, an additional power interruption was needed once I re-included them to smartthings.

I’m not sure if cutting the power alone would have done the trick or doing the exclude/power/include would have been fine if I skipped the zst10, but the important part is they’re all working now.

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