{"id":2073,"date":"2021-03-15T07:50:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2021-03-18T22:39:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T05:39:15","slug":"my-ge-12727-z-wave-smart-toggle-switch-started-clicking-like-a-metronome-and-died-after-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/my-ge-12727-z-wave-smart-toggle-switch-started-clicking-like-a-metronome-and-died-after-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"My GE 12727 Z-Wave Smart Toggle Switch started clicking like a metronome and died after 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since the product is no longer sold on Amazon, I am left with putting this product review here. I got a bunch of GE smart toggle switches back in 2016 and installed them in various smarthome builds. Then, just yesterday (2021-03-14), I was (ironically?) installing a different smart switch on the same circuit. I turned the breaker on and off a handful of times while installing\/testing the new one. And then I heard a clicking. Click&#8230; click&#8230;click&#8230; click&#8230; click&#8230; like a metronome with 1 second delay. It was the GE 12727 smart toggle from 2016. It was just clicking and clicking and clicking. At first I thought for sure the new switch was interfering with it somehow so I disconnected it and the clicking continued. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GE 12727 z-wave smart switch clicks over and over after flipping the breaker after 5 years\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bX0cbxV7rF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>The clicking itself<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess a 5-year life isn&#8217;t terrible, and that one of the issues of going all in on home automation is that complexity generally leads to lower reliability. I can handle replacing the ones in my home, temporarily with the OG dumb switches and then with new upgrades (I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"https:\/\/inovelli.com\/red-series-on-off-switch-z-wave\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/inovelli.com\/red-series-on-off-switch-z-wave\/\">Inovelli switches recently<\/a> based in Michigan what what!, which have cool extra features). It&#8217;s a lot more problematic when something like this happens at my mom&#8217;s house and she has to like call an electrician. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/homeautomation\/comments\/lpv2s9\/fix_for_ge_12727_jasco_zw4003_switch_failures\/\">Apparently people have found <\/a>that this<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/homeautomation\/comments\/kvl2j5\/ge_zwave_switch_click_of_death_fix\/\"> can be fixed by changing out a capacitor.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MsDTi53qq4Q\">a video of a similar fix<\/a>. I&#8217;ll try it out and report back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the product is no longer sold on Amazon, I am left with putting this product review here. I got a bunch of GE smart toggle switches back in 2016 and installed them in various smarthome builds. Then, just yesterday (2021-03-14), I was (ironically?) installing a different smart switch on the same circuit. I turned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/my-ge-12727-z-wave-smart-toggle-switch-started-clicking-like-a-metronome-and-died-after-5-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My GE 12727 Z-Wave Smart Toggle Switch started clicking like a metronome and died after 5 years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-automation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}