I was wondering about repeaters. I have several Iris plugs, and 7 GE zw+ switches. Are these both acceptable, or should I find better options? The only other zw items I use is the Zooz power strip that I just added, and a Utilitech siren, everything else is Zigbee.
It's not only the quantity, but placement. Think of it as a spider web, the repeaters have to be in between the battery devices in line of sight or at least path of best signal.
I have socket plugin repeaters for z-wave in hallways to repeat the signal to my locks. But my house is really spread out.
So, if you have the hub in the center of house, and the end device is say, 2 rooms away, line of sight, it would be best if their were at least 2 repeaters, one in each room to reach that end device best...
Again, its not a hard and fast rule, but more repeaters the better... Also, never hurts to run a z-wave repair and check logs to make sure it worked and finished.
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Seems a 2-1 ratio works really well......Out of the 40 Zwave devices I have only 16 are battery powered. 24 are repeaters
Are your Iris plugs the v2 Centralite plugs that are Zigbee for switch control, and have the Z-Wave Plus repeater as well? If so, on Hubitat you will need to pair the Z-Wave repeater portion separately from the Zigbee pairing process. They will show up in Hubitat as a simple Z-Wave Repeater Device. On Iris, these automagically paired both the Zigbee and Z-wave portions in one step.
Yes, they are, and yes, I paired both. Both show in devices. Crazy thing is that I have one about 4 feet from the Zooz strip, and the rest are between the hub and the strip. I did use the driver from srwhite for the Iris plugs, seemed like it showed more detail, but not sure it matters. The GE switches are using native driver. I did do a zwave repair, which finished just fine.
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Well these are nice, but finding you one that is compatible with HE is a challenge. Ugly Hue Dimmers are pretty much your option.
Get me a sample, I'll write a driver for it...
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That's just a battery button there are loads of them I want a AC powered dimmer like the Fibaro dimmer 2 and AC powered detector of which there is nothing 
. So the comment of there is more options for z-wave is correct.
The only AC powered detector I know of is nest protect and they don't expose the PIR part and they would be perfect.
If that’s your criterion, I cannot argue. For anything I want (which does not include an in-wall product from either of those protocols), there’s little difference. I do find it odd that there aren’t as many Zigbee choices for you in the UK, since It’s not country specific.
What about this one:
(Note: already works with HE)
and for those of you who believe in Zwave, Jasco just came out with something:
completely agree for something that has the same chip/ licence just a different PSU you would think there would be loads and no one seems to know about z-wave over here but they have all heard about zigbee and all they seem to do is lamps and buttons 
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it's just a button. I don't want battery powered devices and want to have nice looking switches not add on ugly buttons. I want my home to be smart not look smart 
. I have a 1880 house and I want it to look and work like a normal house but be smart all in the background. That's why Hubitat is great 
because i have been able to do that, I just would prefer to use more Zigbee stuff rather than z-wave (mostly for security and speed reasons)
