Best Deadbolt Locks?

josh · April 4, 2019, 5:08pm

I had issues with my YRD256 locks (Z-wave module) on HE as well. One of the locks was within ~10 feet of the hub, but was still having problems occasionally showing the wrong status or not accepting commands. I ended up re-reading through some of @JDRoberts posts on the ST community about Z-wave locks and beaming and decided to get a Zooz ZEN25 as a repeater to see if it helped.

Sure enough, after adding the Zooz ZEN25 with beaming as a repeater (within a few feet of the hub), I haven't had issues with the locks since.

Here's a snippet from @JDRoberts' post:

JDRoberts:

So zwave came up with “beaming” which is A way to have a repeater which is close to the lock hold its messages and re-transmit them the instant that the lock wakes up. That’s very different than the pony express paradigm. Instead of just trying to get the message from one place to another as quickly as you can by passing it from rider to rider, when the message gets to the last stop before its destination, it is held there, and is soon as that station realizes the lock is awake, they tell them that they have a message waiting. And again, this was optional when it was introduced.

So for Locks, you want to always make sure that the repeater closest to the lock, ideally within 10 or 15 feet of it, supports beaming.

And to be honest it’s usually better If This repeater is not the hub, because the hub is always busy. Some random light switch sitting nearby may be better able to get messages to and from the lock very quickly because to be honest it doesn’t have that much else to do.

The full reply by JD is worth a read: