New device ONLY showing in Expert UI

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beowulff
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New device ONLY showing in Expert UI

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I excluded / Included a new switch, and it appears correctly configured in the Expert UI - I am able to turn it on and off from the (Expert UI) -> Control->Switch menu. But, it does not appear on the main UI. If I list all devices, including hidden ones, it still doesn't show up. I've restarted the z-way server, still no luck.
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PoltoS
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Re: New device ONLY showing in Expert UI

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Go in Devices/Manage and check what is listed there
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Re: New device ONLY showing in Expert UI

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No, it doesn’t show in Devices->Manage either.

But, it works fine from the Expert UI.
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Re: New device ONLY showing in Expert UI

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I examined the json database, and saw that it was the only device with “removed = true”, so I edited that and deleted it, but it still only shows up in the Expert UI.

How does the SmartHome UI interact with the Z-way database?
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Re: New device ONLY showing in Expert UI

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I was able to do a work-around for this bug.
One thing I noticed was that this device (Leviton switch) was ID#1, which used to be my HA07 controller. I thought that might be a problem.
So, I excluded device #1, added a new device (in the hope that it would take ID #1), then added the Leviton switch back in, and then excluded the temporary device. I thought that the temporary device would get ID#1, but it didn’t. Doesn’t matter - the newly-included Leviton switch ended up as ID#8, and I was able to see it in the SmartHome UI.

I’d still like to know how to correct this issue, but for now, everything is working.
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Re: New device ONLY showing in Expert UI

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Looks like you had two devices using same ID. How has this happened? May be you resettled the city troller and included a device that took the ID used by another device before reset.
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Re: New device ONLY showing in Expert UI

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@beowulff: Have you included the device in Expert UI or main UI?
If in expert UI - have you tried to include the device again in main UI?

Maybe you have excluded before (in expert UI or main UI) any device?

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Re: New device ONLY showing in Expert UI

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@michap -
Thanks for the suggestion. The device was visible and usable in the Expert UI, but never visible in the main UI.
I even looked at the json database, and the device was not marked as "hidden" in any way.
I finally gave up and excluded it, and the re-included it (after including a temporary device), which fixed the issue.

I wish there was better documentation about how all the UIs interact with the RaZberry drivers.
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