Innovelli Smart Switch vs GE Z-Wave 14292

[JDRoberts]

The owner of the Inovelli company is a community member here and posts occasionally. There are discussions of their devices in various threads.

@Eric_Inovelli

Now to the GE:

In home automation, that’s a budget brand. They are actually manufactured by Jasco who just license the GE name. They are very popular because they are cheap and people are comfortable with the name, but there are definitely better engineered switches out there.

That specific model, the 14292, Is brand new on the market and a number of community members have reported it’s a little flaky. Not sure what’s going on with it yet, but you’re not the only one who’s reported problems.

Pairing/Connecting a GE-14292 SMART Switch - Made Easy

Tried to pair a new GE-14292 Smart Switch and was having trouble adding via Add a New Thing…After fighting with the software and following numerous community suggestions of turning the switch toggle in the on then off position multiple times, I read the switch instructions. IF YOU ARE HAVING ISSUES WITH YOUR HUB FINDING THE GE-14292 SMART SWITCH, follow GE’s manual instructions and perform a factory reset of the SmartSwitch, after performing a Z-Wave Device Exclusion (discussed elsewhere throughout the community). To make it easy to understand see the following process. General Pairing/Connecting Instructions: Wire switch in accordance with Manufacturer’s recommendations Enter Add a Thing Press SmartSwitch toggle to on and release If connection is unsuccessful try the following: Pe…