I've been using mostly SmartThings Outlets for switching, with a couple of Leviton Z-Wave outlets for outdoor-ish stuff. Never a problem, never a slowdown, all LQIs in the 250s (except for the one Zigbee switch inside a metal fan housing, which hovers in the 180s).
Hearing good things about them elsewhere, and liking the form factor, I decided to buy a Peanut to test. It was plugged into an outlet in my Office, about 15 feet away from the Hubitat, with three of the ST outlets within 10 feet.
Within a day, the mesh started to malfunction - a random device LQI would drop into 80s, then repair itself in an hour or so, and then another random device would drop.
After three days of watching this, the Peanut got pulled. When three days went by without a single mesh hitch, the Peanut went into the circular file.
Yeah, I know I know. I paired my peanuts first with my first hub and you can guess how that turned out.
Edit: I had a lot of trouble getting devices to pair with the hub when I was switching from ST. Especially difficult were the Lightify 4-button switches, which took multiple attempts with each of the 10 switches. One of them I could never get to join and threw it away 🤦🏼 They all joined without issue to the new hub.
That's about what I spent on the four I just removed. I have no hard data to support anything for this next statement, but I have noticed my Yale Zigbee lock on the front door seems to be more responsive now since replacing them.
I concur with that sentiment. I will have hard data in about a week or two, but for now, my automations seem "snappier" without the Peanuts. They're mostly based on zigbee sensors triggering Lutron lights.
I would recommend using them - the Smart Plug driver provides a lot more information than the generic driver. And the repeater driver lets you regularly assess repeater health. Both awesome contributions from @srwhite.
Depends on the firmware version. I have enough powered z-wave+ devices, including 5 Aeotec Range Extender 6, so I am not using them as z-wave+ repeaters.
Get them from alex_sari? One of my five needed a factory reset. Although it paired initially, it would shut itself off. After a full reset, I paired it again, and it has worked fine since then.
I’ve seen z wave repair, and any time i add a device i try and use that. I looked for a zigbee Repair.....can you tell me where to find that please.
Thanks.
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You shouldn't have to run a zigbee repair. Zigbee networks are supposed to be robustly self-healing. So there is no "zigbee repair". If you absolutely feel like you have to do this, then turn off the zigbee radio for ~20 minutes and then turn it on again.
There is none afaik - the network should be self-healing. You can turn off the zigbee radio for ~20 minutes and the devices go into some sort of panic mode and will rebuild when turned back on but I think but that's it as far as HE goes. I don't know if that is a recommended way to handle things or not.
I frequently (unintentionally) turn off the entire hub. Sadly my hub is in a terrible spot in my office...prone to being hit, dislodged resulting in the power cord coming out. .i know...i really need to relocate it....but the reason I ask is a hard boot the same as powering off the radio? Or does the hub have to be powered and the zigbee radio off to accomplish the heal? Thanks.
It has to be off for a certain length of time to put zigbee end devices into panic mode and reform a mesh. I don't recommend unplugging the hub willy-nilly. That's a recipe for database corruption .... (relocate your hub!)
