Looking for clarification/guidance on task 4 in the zwave update task list in centercode. Submitting a bug report or suggestion doesn’t seem to fit:
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After a few days of firmware update, Report if you notice any behavior differences in terms of reaction time, connectivity and reliability of the Z-Wave network after the firmware update.
This is left ambiguous in some sense to see if the user can notice any difference with their Z-Wave devices. For example, do you feel like a device is responding quicker or did a device all of sudden becomes laggy or difficult to control?
Every network is different, devices are different, and more importantly user’s environment, thus the ambiguity. Let me know if that is helpful.
With help of co-workers, we chased down the issue where some working devices were being marked offline, even though they were working fine and were controllable. This is an issue in the Cloud, and we are going to discuss internally to fix this issue.
If you notice this issue, there is a good chance that it is the issue we found today. However, feel free to keep reporting such bugs and we can ensure it is not the same.
Our version is actually older (0x01020412). I am reaching out to the manufacturer to get the latest version which might end up being what you already have. Did you use the Osram hub to get it?
Yes, as the firmware updates were not working in Uk I had to get a hub, it did fixed the many issues with them. But I updated them about 5/6 months ago so there may be a later one.
It is a firmware update for the Z-Wave Radio on the hub itself, the goal is to determine if the newer firmware on the radio improves the user experience with your Z-Wave decies
Was one of the updates to have the virtual dimmer work as a dimmer instead of simply an on/off switch.
I played around with it this morning. Turn on and set level turns on at 100% regardless of whether you set it as 1%, 100%, or anything in between.
That’s not an issue with the device, but instead with automation. The Virtual Dimmer Switch can have it’s level changed, but you would have to set up a smartapp to get another bulb to follow that level. But I do agree that that functionality would be very useful.