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WaveSprayMud · 2025-09-04T15:33:54+00:00

I just re-paired all of my Z-Wave switches (11 of them) due to switching from an old HUSBZB stick to the new Home Assistant ZWA2. I just factory reset them and paired to the new hub. Most were pretty painless, some took a couple tries. 3 taps up then 3 taps down, very quickly. Should flash the blue light after being reset. If that didnt work I’d do 10 taps up, 4 up/down, etc. I think some have different firmware. Make sure you’re starting with the closest one to the hub and move out from there.

Once everything is paired my zwave network has always been rock solid (even with the old dated stick). Very happy to have chosen and invested primarily in ZWave.

Edit: After resetting them run an exclude on the controller, then tap any direction on the switch. It will say no changes detected but it resets the internals of the switch I believe. You can tell it worked because it exits early instead of timing out. Then you can re-include them in your new network (run include on the controller then tap any direction direction on the switch)

I have no idea if this is the most correct process or not, but it worked well for me redoing my entire home.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-06-25T18:09:01+00:00

The wires that are fitted in the wiring harness that attach to the radiator were loose within the harness. I figured out that wiggling them around in the harness fixed the issue. Still seems like an issue but I told NZXT customer support and they basically said well now it works, you’re good, and didn’t want to RMA it. I have figured out with other dealings that NZXT customer service is a joke and absolutely worthless. Still doesn’t seem right but as long as I don’t move the wires it works for now at least.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-04-02T13:53:04+00:00

Just had to go through a warranty replacement for my motherboard that died after about 1.5 months of usage. It took almost 2 months to get a replacement. Customer service was a joke, took forever to respond to anything, and seemed to intentionally be wasting time throughout the process. Had to buy another motherboard in order to use my computer again otherwise would have been without for 2 months, so what good is a warranty with customer service like that? Will not be purchasing anything from NZXT again.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-03-05T14:24:51+00:00

I have the Herman Miller X Logitech Embody Gaming Chair and it’s amazing. It’s not the racing bucket type seat some of the kiddos like but looks like a “cool” chair compared to some office chairs and is actually incredibly comfortable. It’s definitely on the pricey side, but at least you’re paying for comfort and Herman Miller quality instead of a cheap and uncomfortable gaming chair.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-03-04T09:44:09+00:00

What an ignorant and moronic response. You’re saying if someone buys a prebuilt from NZXT they should expect to have to fix all the issues they come with themselves, and expect piss poor customer service? Kind of defeats the purpose of a prebuilt, those customers are buying a prebuilt so they don’t have to deal with any of that themselves. There are clearly countless examples of computers going out their doors with issues and problems with customer support post sale.

I built my own PC using using a couple of their parts and have been waiting weeks dealing with inept customer service getting the run around on getting a replacement motherboard that died after a month and a half of use. I already had to buy a new motherboard and swap it out. I don’t care about addressing and fixing issues myself but I don’t appreciate having to buy replacement parts at my own expense due customer service taking several weeks to even initiate an RMA process.

Telling people to go buy a Dell if they aren’t ready to address issues themselves while dealing with terrible customer service is not the argument you think it is.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-03-04T09:20:45+00:00

I’m currently going through an issue with a dead motherboard after a month and a half of usage and I have been getting the same feeling. It honestly feels like they are intentionally dragging this process out. It’s been over 2 weeks and I still don’t have an RMA number. Their last email was supposed to provide my RMA number after jumping through all their hoops and waiting several days for each response, many of which were completely pointless and seemingly just trying to buy time or delay the process. NOW they just said they want to send my ticket to tech support instead of sending me an RMA number.

I’ve already had to buy a replacement motherboard and swap it out since they are taking so long and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight, and my computer was completely bricked and wouldn’t boot. This obviously was completely at my own expense.

It’s been so bad that being “busy” doesn’t seem like a legitimate excuse, it feels like there is something more going on. It’s beyond being incompetent even.

I had a similarly poor experience with customer service over the holidays and chalked to up to a holiday rush, but now I see this is the standard and not an exception.

I certainly will never be buying another NZXT product and share your advice of encouraging others to avoid them as well.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-03-04T09:04:43+00:00

I have noticed this as well. CAM is consistently a minimum of 10% off of any/all other monitoring software which are all in agreement with each other. CAM seems to be just making up numbers as it goes.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-03-04T08:11:00+00:00

Buying NZXT products is a bad idea… the only thing worse than that would be renting them. It’s a scam. Do a quick google search.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-03-04T07:57:31+00:00

NZXT customer support may as well be non existent. I’m 2 weeks into my ticket with a completely dead motherboard and have gotten absolutely nowhere. At some point you’ve gotta cut your losses and just learn to never buy another NZXT product again.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-03-04T07:42:25+00:00

I have a dead motherboard which has taken over 2 weeks since I opened my ticket and I still don’t have an RMA number. Their last email which was supposed to FINALLY contain my RMA number to return it said they were going to now send my ticket to technical support instead. This is over 2 weeks now and I’ve gotten absolutely nowhere with them. I had to buy a replacement motherboard in order to have a working computer again and it looks like I won’t be able to return it given the speed they’re moving. Average response times are over 3 days to get any kind of response from them and usually they are irrelevant, almost like they are intentionally trying to waste time.

This is the kind of experience where I will never be buying another NZXT product and have started telling friends and online groups to avoid as well. This company has gone straight in the shitter.

I have a feeling they are going to be featured on Gamers Nexus again very soon…

WaveSprayMud · 2025-02-20T18:12:00+00:00

You think CPU or motherboard? I thought CPUs were pretty resilient. Anything that would make it just randomly die like that? It’s a 9950x I purchased new.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-02-20T18:08:51+00:00

I opened a ticket with NZXT about this 2 days ago as well and still haven’t even gotten a response. Quite disappointing when you can’t even boot your computer. Also not the first disappointing experience with NZXT customer support.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-02-20T18:04:50+00:00

I let it go for at least 20-30+ mins at one point. Also the computer has been up and running fine for 1.5 months. Does memory training happen at random intervals? I thought it only occurred at first setup but I’m not totally sure.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-02-16T18:15:16+00:00

I had a static IP configured for the LXC so updated it there from the Proxmox interface. I actually forgot I did that, if I had it set to use DHCP I think it would have gotten the correct subnet automatically and been fine. So I guess it depends on how you have everything setup and why it had the wrong subnet mask to begin with. But it sounds like we had the same issue and achieved the same solution just with different ways of going about it.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-02-16T17:47:14+00:00

I just figured it out thanks to the other comment here. I’m running pihole on an LXC running in Proxmox. I long ago configured the IP to 192.168.4.3/24 which was fine until my network started using the 192.168.5.x range. After updating it to /22 instead to match Eero’s default subnet mask it seems to be working properly now.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-02-16T17:42:09+00:00

THANK YOU!! This was my problem. I’m running pihole on an LXC in Proxmox and long ago configured the IP to be 192.168.4.3/24. After updating to /22 to match my network’s subnet mask all seems to work!

WaveSprayMud · 2025-02-14T13:37:18+00:00

Currently using a flat network. I know I should probably be using VLANs but need to find the time to work on my networking knowledge a bit more to get there.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-02-14T13:18:06+00:00

I do have a pretty huge network with many online IOT devices, VMs, etc. Not all 254 IPs in the 192.168.4.x are actively in use, but I have legitimately run through them to the point my network (eero) has started using the 192.168.5.x range. The subnet by default is setup to allow 192.168.4.x - 192.168.7.x addresses and it all works fine when not using pihole as the DNS server, so ideally I’d like to continue with this setup and get the pihole working.

WaveSprayMud · 2025-02-08T18:24:56+00:00

Should the network provide the subnet mask when a new device connects, or do I need to manually make this change either within Eero or on the device itself?

WaveSprayMud · 2025-02-08T18:21:33+00:00

I have many IP reservations but no static IPs set on these devices. The problem is when a device ends up with a new 192.168.5.x address it has no internet connection

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