I just transferred a house in Bahamas that is a single level massive home. I have had some issues with Z-wave and replaced the 3 hop+ devices with non-Z-wave switches. I just transferred to the new hub and when I looked at my Z-wave information, 100% of the devices are now DIRECT. I have already switched a previous hub but the home was much smaller with less Z-wave devices.
I just can not believe it. I have to give a lot of credit to the developer of this hub.
Thank you.
The pages keeps going and going. I only posted the first page of devices.
Something seems fishy here...why only 1 neighbor for all of these devices? Even when directly connected, they should still be able to see the other devices.
For example:
In summary, what's the furthest distance of a repeater to the hub?
This capture is seconds after I switched from one hub to the other. The network had no time to self heal.
I do feel like your post is implying something?
Not cool
The hub is in the center of the home so I would say 1000 feet?
In one case it is going through rebar and concrete and still worked.
Yeah, sorry, not meant that way. I meant something fishy was going on with the report is all since it looked weird. All good.
My apologies for the misunderstanding. When the hub switches from one to another it lacks the information for a period of time. You can do a "repair" to speed up the process, but with direct connected devices it is not really needed.
One of the rare advantages of z-wave over zigbee. The lower radio frequency helps with going through concrete.
It is only after this hub that I have seen it. I know the frequency of 900Mhz should do it but it never did it in the past. This is got to be more then an antenna?
I might be wrong, but I think 800-series radio have more power as well.
Maybe they finally fixed things in the 800 radio. I might even give security a new try (maybe).
1000 feet!!!!
WOW! WOW! WOW!
Did you use any 800 series devices?
Or, any 700 series devices?
In the past, I have tended to assume that Zigbee would "win the race" for a number of reasons.
However, this certainly gives Zwave a rare (and HUGE) technological advantage over Zigbee.
In addition, with Hubitat being the only major player with a 800 class radio, this gives Hubitat a clear advantage in the marketplace for Zwave type devices!
In the past, I have tended to have many Zigbee devices due to the imperative of developing a strong mesh, and the ubiquitous nature of cheap Zigbee sensors. This may force me to reconsider and to search out inexpensive Zwave sensors.
One thing to be aware of with S2... On the C7, S2 made doing device-level firmware updates (using HE's built-in updater) impossible for most of us who ever tried it. IIRC, it should work in theory, but it didn't in practical.
I don't know if that's "fixed" now with the new chip in the C8 -- I haven't seen any posts yet about someone trying it... It would be awesome if that worked on the C8 though!
I only use only 500 series devices in this location. I have to report after the self heal one of my devices decided to hop through another so I do have one device on a single hop.
Zigbee is great and gives me almost no headaches so I am not quite there yet. It is good to have options.
I will give it a try. Though it is not needed for me so I will only play with it.
I am sorry that is a mistake. I should have said 200 feet. I broke out the take measure. I do not know what I was thinking.
Last week I was unable to do device-level firmware updates from my C8 while using S2. After re-pairing without security, they all updated without issue.
I think I will just stick to no security. It is so not needed unless maybe a lock?
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