I have ~23 Z-Wave devices connected to Hubitat, and performance has become really inconsistent. Devices usually respond pretty well one at a time (e.g. turning a single light on or off), but updating several devices at once is really inconsistent. Sometimes it all works within a second or two; sometimes random devices take 10 seconds or longer; sometimes a few devices just don't respond at all. For example, when using the Hubitate "Groups and Scenes" app, sometimes it will take two or three clicks of the "Activate Scene" button to get all of the devices to do what they're supposed to. I've included a screenshot of what my "good morning" scene looks like after clicking the button two different times today.
I'm a software dev by day, but I don't know as much about interpreting the various Z-Wave tools in Hubitat. Does anyone see anything in the included screenshots that points to an obvious problem?
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Interesting; I hadn't seen that option. I would have presumed that some kind of auto-updater would have done that, but I guess not. I couldn't find a specific Z-Wave firmware version listed anywhere, but when I clicked that "Firmware Update" button, it definitely had a firmware to update. My current platform version is 2.3.2.141, and my hardware is Rev C-7, if that matters. I'll try a few scene changes after the firmware updates and report back!
Update for people that stumble across this thread later: That "Firmware Update" on the Z-Wave screen only appears if there's a firmware update to do. Once I did that update, the button disappeared. It seemed like things worked a bit better this morning, but I'm going to give it a day or two to be sure.
One thing you may want to do since you did the update is to go to settings and shut down the hub. Unplug power to the hub (at the wall not the hub) for 5 mins. This will clear the z-wave radio. Power back up and things may be even better
Just curious: why not unplug at the hub? I would think unplugging at the wall would have the *(slight) risk of not cutting power if for some reason the person had a power backup adapter attached.
As said, the micro usb connector. There was a series of them that had weak solder joints. They've since fixed the issue but since we don't know exactly which ones had the issue it's standard advice to pull at the wall instead of the micro usb connector.
I would assume then the person getting the instructions would have enough sense to pull it from the ups and not pull the ups cord
I have had many devices over the years where the micro USB basically got mangled or just plain wore out after a few plugs and unplugs. It is fine if you just leave it plugged in, but it seems to wear rapidly or even get inserted incorrectly very easily. (Not just Hubitat, all micro USB in general)
Hopefully the next gen of hub goes to a barrel jack, or USB-C (or whatever they are calling it nowadays) which seems to be a lot more rugged in my experience.
Here are screenshots of the Details page:
