Leviton Scene Controller

Revision as of 18:28, 14 March 2009

These instructions work for the Leviton RZCS4.

Adding the RZCS4 to your Z-Wave network

1. Be sure the scene controller is not already paired with another network. The best way to do this is to hold down the scene 1 and scene 3 buttons simultaneously for 10 seconds. Hold down the left side of the button, near the LED lights. When you first press them, one of the buttons may blink red momentarily. After you've held them down for about 4 seconds, all 4 lights will turn amber, and if you keep them held down, after another 4 seconds all 4 lights will turn red. This means the scene controller is reset, and can now be included.

2. Take Vera's dongle to the scene controller and be sure Vera's dongle is off. If the light on the dongle is blinking, tap the button on the dongle so it is off. The dongle must be off when you put the scene controller into program mode. Now, press and hold scene buttons 1 and 3 on the left side, near the LED lights, for 4 seconds. All 4 lights will turn amber. Let go. The 4 lights will blink amber every 1 second or so to indicate the scene controller is in program mode.

3. Only after you completed step 2 and the scene controller is in program mode, tap the button on Vera's dongle to put the dongle in include mode. After about 5 seconds, the dongle's light should stay solid for a second and the scene controller's 4 amber lights will interrupt their normal blinking pattern. This means the scene controller was now included. You can put Vera's dongle back in Vera, or take it to include another device.

4. When you re-insert the dongle in Vera, after a few seconds you should see the scene controller show up as an unassigned device on the devices tab in Vera's setup site. Pick the room the scene controller is in, and give the scene controller a name if you want.

If you do not want Vera to assign scenes to the scene controller, but will do that using another device, you can stop here. If you want Vera to assign scenes, keep going with step 5.

5. After you assigned the scene controller to a room, click the + button next to the scene controller on the devices tab in Vera's setup site. Check the box "Treat scene buttons as events". After you save your changes, Vera will start to reconfigure the scene controller and if successful, you will see a green cog next to the scene controller indicating it was successfully configured. There must be a green cog next to the scene controller for it to work.

6. On the scenes tab in Vera's setup site, create the scenes you want assigned to the scene controller. Click the red 'save' button to save your scenes. If you haven't yet added all the lights and other Z-Wave devices you want in the scene you'll have to do that first, of course, and come back to this step later. Click the 'Add Event' button for your scene. Choose the event 'Scene button is pressed'. Then choose the scene controller from the pull-down. Then enter the scene button you want to trigger the scene; enter a number between 1 and 4 for the 4 scene buttons.

After you save your changes, pressing the left side of the scene button, next to the LED, will trigger the scene. Note that the scene can include delays. For example, if you have a 'go to bed' scene, you may want the scene to lock the doors, turn down the thermostat, and turn off all the lights. But, you might not want the bedroom lights to go off immediately if the scene controller is on the opposite side of the room from the bed. So, in the scene, for the bedroom lights, choose the command "On" then choose "After 30 seconds", then "Set a new setting", then "Off". This way, when you choose the scene, the bedroom lights will come on for 30 seconds so you have time to walk across the room, and then turn off.

The 4 scene buttons on the scene controller can be pushed to the left or to the right. The left is the normal way to trigger a scene. If you press any of the scene buttons to the right, it is treated as 'button 0'. You can create a scene as described above, and in step 6 choose button #0. But this means that no matter which of the 4 scene buttons you press to the right, they all trigger the scene for button #0. See ZWave_Add_Controller method #2 for an explanation.

Removing the RZCS4 from your Z-Wave network

If you already paired the RZCS4 and want to remove it:

1. Take Vera's dongle to the scene controller and be sure Vera's dongle is off. If the light on the dongle is blinking, tap the button on the dongle so it is off. The dongle must be off when you put the scene controller into program mode. Now, press and hold scene buttons 1 and 3 on the left side, near the LED lights, for 4 seconds. All 4 lights will turn amber. Let go. The 4 lights will blink amber every 1 second or so to indicate the scene controller is in program mode.

2. Only after you completed step 1 and the scene controller is in program mode, press and hold the button on Vera's dongle continuously for 5 seconds until the dongle's blue light blinks quickly, then let go. After about 5 seconds, the dongle's light should stay solid for a second and the scene controller's 4 amber lights will interrupt their normal blinking pattern. This means the scene controller was now removed. You can put Vera's dongle back in Vera, or take it to include another device.