{"id":3319,"date":"2023-12-25T13:30:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T19:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2023-12-07T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T04:17:00","slug":"blinking-zooz-light-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=3319","title":{"rendered":"Blinking Zooz Light Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I installed some new z-wave light switches recently and when working on one of them, I encountered a very peculiar problem, the light would turn on for one second, then flash off and back on again, repeating this constantly. I was unsure what was going on since I thought I had wired the switch correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The switch box had 3 wires, 2 going up and out one side, and a third going up and out the other. This was in a closet with 2 lights in it, so I figured the two were for the lights and the third was for the incoming power. I was quite wrong. The two were for the incoming power (incoming power and the rest of that breaker) and the third was for the two overhead lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PXL_20230819_172738706.MP_-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PXL_20230819_172738706.MP_-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PXL_20230819_172738706.MP_-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PXL_20230819_172738706.MP_-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PXL_20230819_172738706.MP_-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PXL_20230819_172738706.MP_-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PXL_20230819_172738706.MP_-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With it wired up correctly this time, the switch turned on and off correctly, no flashing on and off. I hadn&#8217;t seen a smart switch do this before, but now I know it was from receiving the line and the load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed some new z-wave light switches recently and when working on one of them, I encountered a very peculiar problem, the light would turn on for one second, then flash off and back on again, repeating this constantly. I was unsure what was going on since I thought I had wired the switch correctly. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=3319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blinking Zooz Light Switch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39,49],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-home-assistant","tag-smart-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}