Device lost by Home when changing battery (Matter/Thread Onvis switch)
Hi all. I’ve got a number of Onvis smart switches in my home using matter over thread. When the battery died and I put a new one in it never re-appears. So in the end after leaving it a day or so I rescanned the code and tried to re-add it. It appears but as a new switch, with the same “old” switch present still and missing from the network. Only way going in and out the old switch settings, looking at each buttons function and going in and out the new switch and manually reprogramming all the lights or automations. These have 5 buttons with single, double or long press functions on each so is a real pain.
I’ve now had to do this on a second one when the battery died in that too. This seems like madness! Is there a simple way to make the device just re-appear as the same thing after changing the battery? Or to make it become the same device after re-pairing it? Or duplicate all device settings of the old “missing” switch and copy to the “new” one? Even just a way to duplicate a shortcut from a single switch function of the old one and pasting to a button on the new one would at least save some time rather than re-writing if/else statements from scratch!
Surely there’s some other way than re-programming the entire thing from scratch every time the battery dies? The other batteries in the other 3 aren’t gonna last much longer and then I’m in for re-coding 45 more switch functions again! 🤦🏻♂️