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Nexa WTE-2 not added

Edvald Eysteinsson shared this question 7 years ago
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Im trying to add my WTE-2 wall switches to my Zipabox but for some reason they are never recognised, i'm not sure if i'm doing something wrong or if it's my box not behaving correctly. When i go to "Add new device" and select the WTE-2 it tells me to set the device into inclusion mode but no matter how much i press the on buttons and no matter how close i get the wizard just continues to count down and then times out.


When searching this forum it's a bit hard to know if it works for others or not. Being able to add these to my setup is pretty important to me. I'm planning on changing my lights to Philips HUE and i need a way to turn them on/off and possibly dim through the Zipabox and not actually cutting the power to them like a standard wall switch does.


Is there anyone that can give me some assistance with this? Has anyone else managed to add them properly to their setup?


Now i could also go with a Z-Wave solution, for instance use

http://www.tkbhome.com/?cn-p-d-181.html or http://www.vesternet.com/z-wave-fibaro-universal-dimmer-2-250w provided that these can be used without an actual light connected to them and just act as Z-Wave remotes.


Nodon has a switch that could be my fallback but it's not so good looking(i've only seen pictures online so far)

http://www.nodon.fr/en/z-wave/z-wave-wall-switch-by-nodon_12-2


Does anyone have experience with the tkbhome, fibaro or nodon switches/dimmers?


My box is currently running firmware 0.9.999.8x4

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The simpel answer is no!


Zipato tried to get it to work but did not manage.


And I finally hade to give up.


I now tri to add Schnider switch in sted but ther is problems with this to.


But I really hope they integrate this correctly!


The Philips hue wall switch remote I can really recommend!

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OK, then i would suggest that Zipato remove the WTE-2 from the list of devices in the wizard, it's a bit misleading to have it there if it doesn't work. Could someone from Zipato confirm that the device isn't working?

Regarding the second question, does anyone have experience with the tkbhome, fibaro or nodon switches/dimmers? primarily if they work properly or not and can be used like i need, it will be pretty costly in the long run to buy devices in the hope that they work.

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It works but really bad. You have to press it 10 seconds to pair and 10 seconds to send command.

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You don't need to press it for 10 seconds. The thing is that the device doesn't generate the right message if the press is too short. If your press lasts about 0.5 second, it should be enough.

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Are you shore with WTE-2.


I have several YouTube clips proves otherwise. So in that case you have changed something?!

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Im guessing you guys are talking about WTE-2 and not the other devices, how did you go about adding it to zipabox? I must have tried all combinations of button pressing but it just isn't recognised.

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It is strange. i have no problems with this device. Try to synchronize and restart the box.


Do you have an external 433 module or Zipabox Duo? Are you having problems with other 433 devices or just that one?

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Željko Cerovski

Thank you Željko Cerovski it seem to work perfect. The only thing I am a little disappointed of is that, I nagged and nagged for Zipato to integrate the switch and when you finally did it did not work. One day it worked and one update it stopped working, and the next day it worked. I continued to give input and so on. I waited half a year to get this implemented and fixed. And finally I gave upp and the ticket was closed.


And now al of a sudden everything works. No one told me!

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You see, when people are having problems with some device, specially if it is a transmitter, many times the problem is in rule creator. There might be still some bugs in rule creator (I hope not) and sometimes there is no other way of detecting such a bug, unless connecting remotely to the user's box.

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Tested, and now it seam to work ok. But I have to make some more extensive testin!


I have the external 433 MHz module. No problems with other 433 devices!


Best regards Jacob!

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And i have the Zipabox Duo and i have no problem with other 433MHz devices other than when adding my Nexa WMR-252 they weren't controllable but when i added them as Nexa EYCR-250 they worked fine.


Nexa WMR-252 is a build in dimmer and Nexa EYCR-250 is a dimmer plug, i guess they use the same hardware.


Don't know if this gives any more clarity but i know that the box is receiving something from the WTE-2 while trying to include it because i was able to add it as a Chacon LCMR-1000, that doesn't really help me since thats a receiver. The weird thing is that it's not added if i try with Nexa LCMR-1000.

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I have no problem with adding WTE to Zipa Duo. You can send me your box's SN on zcerovski@3plus.h and I will try to see what is wrongr

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I just sent you the serial number

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Just to make sure, when you are adding it to the Zipabox Duo, you are just pressing/clicking on either 1 or 2 in this picture right?f083c520540a2acf19abf86b2899367e

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Yes, either 1 or 2. I received your SN. I will connect to your box, check some things and you will have to press buttons. We should arrange a debug session

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I believe your problem with WMR was an accident. The thing is that, for some reason (maybe it wasn't in learn mode actually), WMR didn't receive the learn command in the discovery. I can't think of any other reason for that problem.


The box never receives any message when you are adding a receiver. So you can't be sure that the box receives something from WTE. I never tested WTE with DUO (but i will) and I suspect that the problem might be because it is a DUO what you have

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I'm having problems with the WTE-2 as well. I have successfully added the device. I use this switch daily, and it's quite frustrating. Sometimes I only have to hold the button for 1 second, and some other days I have to hold the button for 10 seconds. I'm also using a Zipabox Duo. This problem has persisted over several firmware versions. I really hope you are able to fix this.

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It might be really hard to detect what is the problem in your case since it happens only sometimes.


Zipabox Duo's usually have shorter range than boxes with external 433 modules and ther might be a problem of signal interference.


As a first experiment, when you have such a problem, you may try to move WTE closer to the box and see if it is better then

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