Fibaro 211 association doesn't work after some days

[Guest Charly86]

I have some fibaro dimmer FGD 211 to connect some lamps. I am happy with the product but I have a strange problem.

For the second switch: S2, I set the association group 2 with another applicance module (everspring dimmer) and also another everspring dimmer on group 1. So S1 light 2 lamps (the everspring module and the lamp connected to the outlet) and S2 the 3rd one. I have done this on my vera lite UI5 latest firmware.

Initally, it works perfectly. After a couple of days, the association went out, S1 was only driving the lamp to the outlet and S2 was inneficient.

So rebooted the vera but it was unsuccessfull. That was strange because some of the other modules I have and configured the same way did the same things, worked fine then suddently went off.

Note that driving all the lamp using the user interface worked fine, just a problem on the switch of the module.

And one day a main power line outage did a "reboot the house" and all worked fine again. Some days after, the problem was back, so unplugged the line power and then worked again.

my vera lite UI version of the module says (under advanced) : 3,3,34,1,6

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I think after some time the module does not work as they should, did you guys at fibaro are aware of this problem ? Do you have a better solution than "rebooting the house" ?

Thank you for your help

[Guest manfaiho]

This problem is really anonying. Either the association in S1 or S2, this problem can be reproduced. Once the main power is restarted, the prblem can be resolved. But runing around a week, the issue comes back again. Fibaro, will you plan to fix this common issue. I stopped to purchase more Fibaro devices until it is fixed.

[Guest Charly86]

manfaiho,

I had again the problem last night, rebooted the vera, no way, then removed the power from fibaro switch, no way again, then "rebooted the house", now works again

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I do not understand why removing the power from the fibaro differs than "reboting the house" that is so strange.

Anyway we would like to have some clues and answer from fibaro support...

[Guest manfaiho]

Don't use the association on this device. Instead, you can create the scene in UI5 to tigger the associated device on or off when the connected device is turned on or off respectively under its device event. It is the same way to do the association from Fibaro unit but now all controll under Vera instead. That work perfect for our situation.

[Guest manfaiho]

It doesn't work at all after I ran in over few weeks using trigger to detect device ON or OFF to control its association together. The problem is the Fibrao unit can't report back its status for ON/OFF immediately when the orginial issue happens. I think the switch on/off from this device directly is ok but somewhere in zwave circult can't function normally when running for a while especially for turning ON/OFF frequently.

[K.Bergmann 2]

Please try to modificate parameter 7 od this module to value 0