Sync Status Pending Changes

Devices & Integrations
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I have a few Zooz zse42 water detectors. On one of them, it isn’t reporting battery %, and has a “sync status” of “1 Pending Change”. My others all report battery % and show the status as “synced”.

When I first open up this detector I also get the grey message “This device hasn’t updated all of its status information yet…”

If I try swiping down on the app screen when “inside” the device to try to refresh it, I get “There was a problem connecting. Try again later”

The device DOES work. If I trigger the sensors with water, it does send a “wet” signal.

I’ve tried excluding and reinstalling it more than once and always the same problem.

I’ve tried time…but even after 24hrs, the issue remains.

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try rebooting your hub

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Just tried that…unless it takes a while post hub reboot to update, it didn’t work.

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It is assigned the same Edge driver as the ones that are working?

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Yes. And it it the zooz specific driver for that device…not a generic one.

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I’ve seen situations where this occurs and can be remedied by using a Routine to set/change some value in the settings. I have a virtual device that I keep around for various scenarios, including this one. I just create a Routine like “When virtual device turns on, then ‘set something on misbehaving device’”.

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Awesome Idea, however in this situation, the devices are water sensors…so there are no parameters I can change via routine. I just tried this, and when I selected the “then” option in the routine, all the water detectors don’t even show up as an option to select. They only show up in the “if” section.

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Darn. I thought they might at least have a setting for changing the wakeup interval.

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If you open up the device and press the config button 4 times, does that sync all the changes?

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nope. Tried that multiple times all with no luck.

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So to close the loop on this topic…no actions on my end were able to force the sync.

The device did, however, sync itself after about 4 days. Not sure why it took so long, but it is sync’d now and is reporting battery percentage.

How odd.

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A few notes:

  • The zse42 has a default wake up of 12 hours and supports changing the wake up interval (according to the manual anyway.) I’m surprised the official Zooz driver doesn’t have a preference for changing it. Kevin’s drivers usually do.
  • As it’s a zwave sleepy device, doing a refresh (pull down in the app) really does nothing. The device isn’t listening even if the hub sent out any “send me all your current data” type messages.
  • The device should sync any parameter or configuration changes on wake up. That’s what the counter is trying to show, how many are pending.
  • Some attributes may not be refreshed every wake up, only when they change. For instance, battery level.
  • However, drivers should set an initial value for all attributes on the device include (or after a driver change). That way the UI doesn’t complain that “the device hasn’t updated all of its status information yet” until an update from the device (unsolicited or during wake up).
  • Rebooting the hub wouldn’t help solve the issue. Doesn’t hurt anything either.
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