Enerwave ZW15SM-Plus Offline

[RTJonesPE (Rich Jones)]

I just added a Enerwave ZW15SM-Plus switch to my SmartThings network. The device added without issue and work fine in manual operation but it shows up offline in the app so I can’t control it. The device is located about 30’ from my hub with 2 wood stud walls and drywall in between, and the other Z-Wave devices less than 10’ from the switch, so I don’t think it is a distance issue. I used the default driver in the app for the switch. Any ideas?

[ghentj]

I had the same issue. I re-added it and it created a new device, but it shows as a placeholder in the IDE interface. and it runs in the cloud now. no idea why, but it’s at least working. I deleted the original device that was using a generic Z wave driver. Not sure if there’s a better way to ‘fix’ it, and make it local. the device looks like this in the IDE:

[RTJonesPE (Rich Jones)]

I also did the generic driver and since then it has been working fine.

[jkp]

@ghentj

but it shows as a placeholder in the IDE interface. and it runs in the cloud now. no idea why, but it’s at least working.

That is perfectly normal. IDE is in the process of being shutdown. It was originally for the legacy platform for groovy. With Edge, they simply display as Placehokder. All Edge drivers run locally on the hub so ignore the cloud execution seen in IDE.

FAQ: Why does the IDE list “placeholder” for my device? Can I change that?

non-technical answer: the IDE is part of the old groovy based architecture. It will be going away and be replaced with something else. in the meantime, anything which is using the new architecture will be represented in the IDE with “placeholder“ under the device type column. This includes devices using an Edge Driver. Since new edge drivers are being added overtime, it may even be that a device which is the same model number as a device you previously added which used a groovy DTH is now using an Edge driver and so shows up as placeholder. Don’t change it! Once the device is using an integration from the new architecture, you can no longer get to its code details through the IDE, And changing it to a different device type may break the integration altogether. If you need to cha…

Best options instead of IDE are to use CLI or:

SmartThings API Browser+ ... Now Available to All

NOTICE!!: SmartThings has now released its own equivalent of this app here, so you may prefer to use that instead. I have a browser-based web app that provides a point-and-click way to explore most of the SmartThings API. For the non-technical, this gives you access to an important SmartThings resource without having to learn tools like Postman, curl, or the CLI. You don’t even need a computer: a tablet or even smartphone can be used. For the more technically inclined, it provides much faster and more convenient access to those commonly-accessed CLI commands. Although I originally thought of it as a portal for the non-technical, I’ve actually found it quite useful to use during my own development activities. This is not intended as a replacement or ‘competitor’ to the CLI, mysmart…

[ghentj]

Thanks so much! It has been so long since I setup everything, and was totally lost. These days I just try to figure out why something isn’t working when everyone in the house complains. Thanks for the explanation and the link to the API Browser!