Cooper Aspire RF syncing master and auxiliary switches

[mpk (Michael Philip Kaufman)]

@JDRoberts

True with the tools that you described and true for battery operated devices, but for mains powered devices you can just use the Z wave tweaker DTH. This can handle any associations that the device can handle. You just temporarily assign a device to that DTH, make all your associations, then set it back to your every day DTH.

This is brilliant, JD – thanks so much! In fact, I already have the Z-Wave Tweaker (as I was mucking about with it early in my VRCZ4 adventures), but I didn’t realize (or remember?) that it could do this. I’ll have a look straight away!

@JDRoberts

Since the RF 9542 does have a Z wave radio, it will be recognized by SmartThings as an individual device. Then if you are using the “SmartThings classic“ version of the mobile app, you can just use the smart lighting feature to have the devices mirror each other.

I believe the SmartLighting feature does only on/off, but not (full) dimming.

@JDRoberts

(One very important point: you gave two different model numbers, the 9542 and the RF 9542. The 9542 was a dumb device without a radio, so you can’t use that one for association. But based on the rest of your post, I’m assuming that all of your auxiliaries are RF 9542 ? )

Quite right – I’d meant to refer to the RF9542 throughout (and didn’t even realize there was a “non-RF” 9542 without radio); I’ll correct my earlier post accordingly. (Interesting sidebar: I found that RF9542s were not cheaper than RF9450s, so I ended up buying only three of the former and 12 of the latter)