Z-Wave Dimmer switch not found by SMartThings problem

[Nezmo]

@rontalley

Awww got you! Never knew that. Hmm. Been a long time since I’ve had to exclude anything but given this info, its going to be hell on earth upgrading! Silly me went and made everything I could “Smart”.

Found an old post of mine (need to read whole post)…

Trouble pairing GE Smart Switch (Model 12727)

Posting the reply from Support as I think it may be helpful to some: Thanks for reaching out to SmartThings with all these great details! I’m sorry to hear that some of your GE Z-Wave switches and dimmers are giving you a hard time connecting, but I’m happy to help out. Based on the data from your Z-Wave network repair, it sounds like all of the current devices in your network are routing signals back to the Hub using the best route possible. To explain the “skipped” device IDs that you noticed: sometimes when a device pairs or is successfully excluded, it will get assigned a device ID from the Hub. When the device no longer is on the SmartThings network, the device ID is gone and does not get recycled unless you start your Z-Wave device table over again. Likely there was either a parti…