# Help with basic setup of a z-wave wall switch **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Created:** [January 14, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/help-with-basic-setup-of-a-z-wave-wall-switch/24438 "2020-01-14T19:18:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![christahler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/christahler/32/20466_2.png) [@christahler](https://community.homey.app/u/christahler)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/help-with-basic-setup-of-a-z-wave-wall-switch/24438/1 "2020-01-14T19:18:20Z")
Hi, I have googled for a loooong time and I just can’t find a basic guide or description on how to set up my newly purchased Z-Wave 8-button 4 channel Wall Switch. I’ve added it to my homey and it shows up as a device. What I want is to control my lights with this switch. The switch looks like this: [https://www.elektroimportoren.no/namron-z-wave-4-kanaler-bryter-k8/4512714/Product.html?Event=livesearch](https://www.elektroimportoren.no/namron-z-wave-4-kanaler-bryter-k8/4512714/Product.html?Event=livesearch) I want to control my lights via Homey and not directly, but when I add the switch to a flow it only gives me options related to battery status. It doesn’t say eg. “when button 1 is pushed”. What am I missing here? ---
**Author:** ![christahler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/christahler/32/20466_2.png) [@christahler](https://community.homey.app/u/christahler)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/help-with-basic-setup-of-a-z-wave-wall-switch/24438/3 "2020-01-14T19:58:58Z")
So you’re saying that it might have gotten added as a generic device even though I found an app and added it? In short, should I see actions like “when button is pushed” or must these kind of switches be set up in another way? ---
**Author:** ![Marcel\_Ubels](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcel_ubels/32/18860_2.png) [@Marcel\_Ubels](https://community.homey.app/u/Marcel_Ubels)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/help-with-basic-setup-of-a-z-wave-wall-switch/24438/4 "2020-01-14T20:07:53Z")
Most off these devices control the different buttons with the option off “ set a scene“. In those cases you mostly get the option which button you want to control ---
**Author:** ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 5:35am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/help-with-basic-setup-of-a-z-wave-wall-switch/24438/7 "2020-01-15T05:35:13Z")
Product details [https://products.z-wavealliance.org/products/3639](https://products.z-wavealliance.org/products/3639) Manual > **[File](https://products.z-wavealliance.org/ProductManual/File?folder=&filename=product_documents%2F3639%2F4512714%20INSTRUCTION%20MANUAL%2020190916.pdf)** > > 1908.34 KB ---
**Author:** ![bMi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bmi/32/16417_2.png) [@bMi](https://community.homey.app/u/bMi)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/help-with-basic-setup-of-a-z-wave-wall-switch/24438/8 "2020-03-08T12:18:53Z")
Hi, I just configured a similar switch, the [Namron Z-wave 2 channel switch (1 channel in URL)](https://www.elektroimportoren.no/namron-zigbee-1-kanal-bryter-k4/4512702/Product.html?Event=searchlist). The switch does not support the onoff [capability](https://community.homey.app/t/robb-smarrt-z-wave-and-zigbee-app-v1-3-1/9988) you expected, but you can use the scene association to achieve the same outcome. This is what I did to control my Philips Hue bulbs: 1. Add the switch using the Namron app in Homey. 2. Add a flow: > **When** > Wall controller - 4 button - 2 channel (Z-wave) > A scene has been activated > Group 2 - On (I) Pressed 1x > **Then** > Phlips Hue GU10 > Turn on Duplicate the same flow and modify it to create a flow to turn off the light. I also used the scene capability to assign relative dim levels to the 2 lower buttons on the switch. I did have some initial trouble making this work due to the distance between the switch and the Homey (They were 2 floors apart). Hopefully, installing some Heatit dimmers will extend the z-wave mesh. ---
**Author:** ![Svein\_Arne\_Eggen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/svein_arne_eggen/32/16491_2.png) [@Svein\_Arne\_Eggen](https://community.homey.app/u/Svein_Arne_Eggen)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/help-with-basic-setup-of-a-z-wave-wall-switch/24438/9 "2020-07-04T15:50:02Z")
Did you ever figure out why you only get battery info? I have the same problem. ---
**Author:** ![Svein\_Arne\_Eggen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/svein_arne_eggen/32/16491_2.png) [@Svein\_Arne\_Eggen](https://community.homey.app/u/Svein_Arne_Eggen)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 11:21am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/help-with-basic-setup-of-a-z-wave-wall-switch/24438/10 "2021-02-28T11:21:55Z")
Hi, does enyboddy get the same problen now after upprgade to 5.0 now wen i install a namron swich with the Namron App i get only battery information whin i try to set up a flow. do you hawe a solution? ---
**Author:** ![Jan-Erik\_Klokk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jan-erik_klokk/32/30919_2.png) [@Jan-Erik\_Klokk](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan-Erik_Klokk)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/help-with-basic-setup-of-a-z-wave-wall-switch/24438/11 "2021-03-06T20:39:23Z")
I had the same problem, added and removed the K8 switch Namron 45127222 several times through the Namron app without getting any flows other than the battery ones. I then realised looking at the app page that the switch was not listed under the Namron app, I found it listed under the app Easy Lighting. I deleted this app and added the switch as before and now it ended up where it should under Namron and all the flow commands available, all good👍