I have a C7 and just added an Aeotec 7 repeater. I’m got it to help with an Inovelli LZW42 bulb that’s in a detached garage about 50 feet from the house without any other zwave devices because it wasn’t always responding on the first request to turn on/off. I paired the Aeotec 7 without security, and only afterwards realized that the Inovelli bulb is paired with S0.
Should I have paired the repeater with S0, S2 or no security? Should I un-pair and re-pair the bulb with no security? I guess my real question is whether the Aeotec paired with no security can repeat signals for S0 or S2 devices?
Thanks!
s0 in general is bad and there certainly no reason a bulb needs security i would exclude and re-pair it if it was me.. the only things i require security on are locks and garage openers.
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Yes it can. A repeater just repeats; it does not modify the traffic. But @kahn-hubitat’s advice is correct - exclude and re-pair the light without security.
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however if you are on a c7 it may not let you pair without security as the 700 chip has restrictions..if you can do s2 instead do that as well, it is less chatty and easier on the hub that s0.
Or use a USB Z-Stick as a secondary controller with PC Controller to pair with no security.
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This is what you'll have to do with the Inovelli bulb (unless you want to try one of the odd workarounds some have found, like unscrewing the bulb at the exact right moment during pairing--not early enough to prevent it at all and not so late that it's already paired securely). They only support S0, so as mentioned above, you won't get the prompt on a C-7 and there's no way around it with a certified 700-series controller like Hubitat as the "pair-er."
It should also be noted that Hubitat does not officially consider the bulbs compatible with the C-7 and there is no mention of security being the reason, but community consensus seems to suggest they work fine without (and it's likely just listed as such because of the issue mentioned above where it's not avoidable using Hubitat alone).
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This makes more sense now as to why it’s paired with S0. I didn’t remember doing that and figured I hadn’t unchecked all of the boxes when pairing to HE.
I’ll give it a try with no security even though it’s not officially supported. Sounds like I should exclude the bulb from HE, then pair my zwave stick through a computer. At that point, pair the bulb through the ZWave PC Controller with no security and will it then show up in HE automatically?
Yep, as long as you have the USB stick added as a secondary to your Hubitat, the hub should "see" it as a new device once it gets added there. You may have to go to Settings > Z-Wave Details, find the new node, and hit "Discover" to get a Hubitat device created for it (been a while for me; someone else might remember for sure, but this is where I'd go to check that Hubitat sees it regardless).
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