I have several of these old smartthing zigbee outlets with the z-wave repeaters in them. I have the repeaters setup as discrete devices in hubitat.
I have a couple of z-wave locks that... don't work that well. Sometimes they're fine, but other times not. They seem to especially have difficulty reporting their state back to hubitat. That is, I can issue a lock command, and I hear the lock lock, but the state sometimes doesn't update to "locked" in hubitat.
I'm wondering if my issue is related to these old repeaters. I just read some hubitat documentation that suggests locks need to be associated with repeaters that support "beaming". Does anybody know if these old repeaters do that? Can someone recommend a repeater that works well with yale zwave locks?
Did you pair these centralite to the hub by zigbee only or did you do the press the button 8 times while pairing with z-wave to get the repeater to function. The zwave repeater (as far as I know) doesn't work unless you pair it with that special pairing process. If you just pair them normally, only zigbee is active. I don't have any of mine as zwave repeaters since I have heard they are problematic so I just use the zigbee side of it. Smarthings was the same way. Lowes Iris was the only hub that paired both protocols when pairing the plug, which is what I had these 33 on before going to Smarthings when Iris closed and then to Hubitat when I was tired of ST's cloud and other crap they were doing or going to do.
I thought only the Iris (not SmartThings, although they look the same and were both made by Centralite) ones had the Z-Wave repeater built in? They would have a Z-Wave Plus sticker on the back and the Z-Wave repeater gets paired separately on Hubitat, as jonathanm8 suggested. The Z-Wave repeaters can be decent or bad, depending on the firmware revision.
I don't use smart locks, but as far as I know the Ring V2 Extenders and the Aeotec Range Extender 7 are both 700-series and work well as repeaters. The Ring V2 has the added benefit of a battery backup.
I have a Schlage Connect Z-Wave lock and had difficulty pairing it with my Hubitat. I added a Z-wave outlet halfway between the hub and the lock; still no joy. I moved the outlet closer to the lock, but that did not help either. Finally, I purchased one of the Aeotec 7 series repeaters that supports S2 security and placed it about 8 feet from the lock. I paired the lock with Hubitat using the procedure to enable S2 security. Then I paired the lock. The lock was recognized quickly and was added to the mesh with S2 authenticated enabled.
The Aeotec 7 repeater is a few dollars more expensive than the series 6 repeater, but if you have a Hubitat C7 with the 700 series chip or anticipate the possibility of upgrading your current hub in the future, the Aeotec 7 repeater with the 700 series chip is a great way to strengthen your Z-Wave mesh.
Yeah just to update: I mis-spoke. These are the centralite IRIS outlets with the z-wave repeater in them (not the smartthings ones), and yes, I paired the repeater portion separately with the 8 button press trick.
I have them setup with the iris z-wave repeater DH, and the device interrogation and test communication buttons work and report online. I'm just wondering if these support "beaming".
