I’m having a hard time finding support for this. I’m trying to add my WDHA-12 to a Smartthings Hub v2 as a secondary controller. It only shows up as a zwave remote and I can’t do anything with it. No buttons to assign appear anywhere. I’m not interested in setting up ST as secondary, however followi…

I have this device too, and one way I was thinking of getting it working would be to have the WDHA turn on/off a Z-Wave device directly (as a secondary controller) and this device would then indicate it’s status back to SmartThings. SmartThings could then do something with that status. I don’t hav…

@rpress Your first idea was the approach I tried. Can’t get the WDHA to exist in the same zwave network as ST and operate as a secondary controller. And I can’t have a device connected to both WDHA and ST at the same time, so I can’t operate it by WDHA and monitored it by ST. Did that make sense, s…

The manual says it can be used as a secondary controller. http://www.usdoorcontrol.com/instructions/waynedalton/wireless_gateway.pdf (page 11 and 4) You tried that and it didn’t work? I’ve never tried it but it looks like it should work. :slight_smile:

@rpress yes that’s exactly what I tried. WDHA “thinks” it’s become a secondary controller so that part works fine. ST however sees it as a zwave remote instead but whitout any features of a remote nor of a controller. So I’m left with the inability to add a device to WDHA (can only add to the primar…

With the idea I’m thinking of, SmartThings doesn’t need to know about the WDHA at all, as long as the WDHA is on the same Z-Wave network and can control a different device. Did you try adding a device to a scene like on page 4 (after it’s a secondary)? Maybe you’re saying that it can’t add a devic…

Yup, that’s clear but the problem is you can only have one primary controller per zwave network and you only add a device to a single primary. If WDHA and ST don’t work together then they can’t see the same thing. I’d love to hear about it actually working but I think I’m stuck with the bridging id…

Can’t you add a device to a scene that’s created by a secondary controller? I don’t mean join a device to a network created by the secondary controller. Isn’t that how all Z-Wave remotes work, they create a scene and you pair a device to that scene.

Yes, I think that’s how it would work but only if the secondary controller existed in the same network and is seen by ST as a secondary controller. As soon as I add WHDA to ST, it becomes useless. It’s neither a controller nor a useful remote. And WDHA thinks it’s become a secondary so you can no lo…

@rpress can you provide any notes on how to accomplish a ZigBee conversion? If this give me integration with ST I’d like to try the same thing. Thanks

Wayne-Dalton WDHA-12 doesn't connect, can I bridge two zwave networks?

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rpress February 1, 2016, 2:10am 10

This conversation spurred me on to do the ZigBee modification to my WDHA. It turned out great.

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