I have a Namron-Zigbee light switches / acutators in a couple of rooms.
The switches are no longer detected by the Homey network.
Much worst, they are still connected and are interfering with the manual switches so that they do no longer work either, meaning that I have no means to switch the lights on.
So, the question is how to I purge them from the system, disconnect them from the network and at least regain use of the manual switches?
How did you connect them?
If you combine manual switches and smart switches that will not work.
If you switch your manual switches to “on” that will probably make your smart switches appear on homey again.
(when you make smart switches powerless they will loose the network)
I installed the Namron app then added the switches manually using the “add light” procedure in the Homey app.
I am sure that they are installed; I followed the procedure and the app reacted to me holding the buttons.
They do show up in the list of device, but do not react. They also do not appear in the light app of Homey itself; I have the animation and then the option of adding lights.
I just want Homey to stop messing with them so that I can use the manual switches!
Did you put the Namron-Zigbee switches in between or parralel to the manual switches ?
If parralel you probably switch then on/off when you use the manual switches. They may not like it and go haywire..
If in between, you probably switch the lights on through the Namron-Zigbee switches when you use the manual switches.
If you Namron-Zigbee switches are faulty that wil not work either.
remove them and reconnect the manual switches, delete them from homey and the should be off the zigbee network.
Or delete them through tools.developer.homey.app (but do be carefull what you do there !)
I don’t have manual switched. Just the Namron ones…
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So what do you mean by this?
Well, I have actual manual switches in the room. Pressing the buttons doesn’t actually switch the lights on anymore.
Added a photo of the switch:
Is this the original switch that was also used befote you installed the namrons?
Depending on how you connected the namrons, the left button could make the namrons powerless.
That would explain why they are now longer visible…
So please share a sketch how you connected the namrons to these switches and how you vonnected the light to the namron
Please also share what namrons you have.
I see namron has both internal ander external switches. And both zwave and zibee.
We need to know your setup to be able to make suggestions
I didn’t install them. They were already in place when I bought the house last month.
Did they ever work for you?
Did the previous owner also have the homey? Or are you installing them on a homey now?
What kind of lights do you try control with these?
Are these also the light the previous owner controlled with them?
Yes, the Homey system was there when I moved in, so was all the electric installation (the switch I showed and a regular ceiling light).
I assume it was working for him.
The app never worked but the manual switches did for a while. Now, nothing works.
But to be able of help we reallyneed to know more about the setup.
What you showed on the photo, is it a switch (is it actually hardwired to the light and switching it) or is it a remote? (A button sending a signal to a switch or a smart bulb)
It looks a lot like a remote…
If it is a remote it would need a flow in homey or direct connection to a bulb or switch.
If its a switch it can control the light by itself
If we guess its a switch:
You mentioned you reconnected it to homey.…
That could have broken the flow or the direct connection to the bulb
But its all guessing until we know more about the setup
That I have no information about.
The flow never appeared on the Homey network. But the previous owner mentioned messing it up accidentally while trying to access it remotely before I moved in.
But the switch was still controlling the light.
It is built into the wall so it would make sense for there to be some kind of physical wiring between the two…
That’s a lot of headaches to simply light up an electric lamp, a technology our species is supposed to have mastered over 150 years ago.
Based on the information I found on the Namron website, there is a:
The information page of the Zigbee-version is (currently) not available; however the one from the Z-Ware version is. Looking at the manual of the Z-Wave version, this ‘switch’ is not actually a relay switch, but a remote. The light is not actually physically connected to this remote.
This means that there must be another smart switching device, either in the wall behind the remote or in the wall/ceiling where the light is connected. Most likely behind the remote.
The remote sends commands to Homey, Homey subsequently to the smart relay that actually controls the light. In addition the remote may also directly control the smart relay via Touchlink (if that has been setup).
I did find a manual of the Zigbee version via another website. It includes instruction on how to set up the Touchlink (direct) connection, however it also refers to the manual of the device to be controlled (the smart relay). As you also need to perform some steps on that device to establish te link.
Next to a direct connection, I assume you also want to re-establish the connection via Homey again. The manual also includes instructions for that (‘Pairing through Coordinator or Hub’).
I think that you first need to find out which devices you actually have, before you can (re)configure them.
Thanks, I genuinely appreciate the detailed answer.
I will check the Z-wave version but I believe it is a Zigbee: Connecting the switches to the app involves holding the buttons on the manual switch, and the app detected when I did it.
I will look into setting up the the touch link. It is a bit tricky because the previous owner didn’t leave these document behind.
But, I have no interest in setting up the connection via Homey if I can avoid it. So, at least, that part should be a little bit easier.
You’re welcome.
By the way: This is the direct link to the PDF-version of the Zigbee version’s manual, which you can download for reference.
Chapter 4 describes how to set up the Touch link:
