I got rid of the wink hub and pretty much control all my devices with Alexa. But my four Schlage locks require a hub so I use habitat. I noticed that I would get notifications through the day that my doors were not locked on my Alexa app.
I finally figured out that the habitat is not reading the door lock status correctly in a couple cases. I unplugged the habitat and went Wi-Fi and moved the hub closer to the west side of
Where the doors are. So far I’ve gotten incorrect reading on only one door, which is the one closest to the hub.
So does anybody have any suggestions about how to overcome this?
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Are these Z-wave locks? Or Zigbee locks?
Do you have any other devices attached to your Hubitat hub? If these are the only devices attached to your hub, you will want to add a few other mains-powered devices of the same mesh network type (i.e. Z-Wave or Zigbee) that can act as repeaters to improve the stability and performance of the mesh network communications.
Please read the following
Z-Wave
How to Build a Solid Z-Wave Mesh | Hubitat Documentation
Zigbee
How to Build a Solid Zigbee Mesh | Hubitat Documentation
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They are BE469ZP so Zwave. I know nothing about mesh etc. i have 5 amazon echo's and ring security system, which is also zwave. So what should I do?
Locks are unique battery devices in that they also need to listen for commands, so they benefit from having solid repeaters nearby to help wake them up as necessary.
As ogiewon says above, adding some well-placed repeaters (any mains-powered ZW device) should help significantly.
I have a Schlage BE469 deadbolt as well. I replaced a Kwikset I had been using for several years.
Must say I am not pleased with the Schlage. I put new batteries in 30 days ago and they are dead already. The Kwikset would last months on four AAs. Just put a new set of batteries today but if they die in a month I might have to get rid of the Schlage. It’s is 12’ from the hub so should work flawlessly.
Update: I modified a couple rules I had that locked the deadbolt at 4 different times a day. I put an IF statement around the lock command such that I only send the lock command if the lock is in the unlocked state. I was thinking this might reduce some unnecessary traffic to the lock and help it better on battery life. When I am away for several days in a row no need to keep sending a lock command to an already locked deadbolt. Not sure if this helps but it can't hurt.
