Relay Setting Changes on Power Loss

[jtronicus]

I believe this is a firmware bug that will be fixed at some point. If the relay is disabled and power is lost, the switch defaults to off when power is restored.

@Eric_Inovelli

V1 Bug Fixes
This will be an area where bugs are reported for V1 and squashed in the next update. Thank you all for finding them. As you can imagine, there are so many different variables, it’s hard to test everything, so we appreciate your help!

Bug #1 - Power Restore State Optimization When Local Control is Enabled
Credit: @wsdavis for finding and @jtronicus for testing

When the relay is disabled via config x8, you can still control the switch through zwave. Until the firmware update is released, you may be able to do one of the following:

• Bypass the load and wire the bulb to be permanently on. I have read other posts that suggests this works, but I havent tested it myself.
• Set up some sort of timed automation that sends the ON command to the switch every 10 minutes or so. This would ensure the switch eventually gets turned back on after a power outage. Sending the ON command to a switch that is already on doesnt seem to cause any issues, but if you send the commands too frequently, you may saturate the zwave network
• Set up some sort of automation that detects if your smart bulb becomes unavailable and then sends an ON command to the switch. This has a less chance of causing zwave bandwidth issues, but is probably not as reliable as option 2.