Problems with zWave

[thebearmay]

@danabw

you may need to find a long ethernet cable and get your hub within a few feet of the lock

Or use the wifi option

[2.2.5] - Use USB WiFi dongle with your C5/C7 hub

There is now a way to use some WiFi dongles with your C5/C7 hub. As of now, earlier models are not supported - they run a very different version of the operating system. Since there is no separate USB port, connecting an external USB device requires an OTG + power cable. The link points to the particular cable I've used, but there probably are others out there. For the sake of full disclosure, we do not earn commissions from any of the devices mentioned in the links. Connect USB power cable to…

[danabw]

@672southmain

You can also take out the hinge pins for the door and move the door to the hub.

Wife wants to know "What is so funny!?" hearing me laughing from two rooms away.

[danabw]

@thebearmay

Or use the wifi option

I feel like I've let myself down, not using the addition of that feature as an opportunity to purchase yet another piece of tech I really don't have to have.

I pity my kids...neither is terribly techie/geeky, so they are going to have a lot of "What the f*** does this do?!" moments when they go through my stuff after I'm gone.

[thebearmay]

@danabw

not using the addition of that feature as an opportunity to purchase yet another piece of tech I really don't have to have.

It’s not too late

[douglaspitman]

I was able to leave the door on ... but did discover the lock was bad. What made this issue more confusing for me was that I changed out the wave antenna and consolidated two C7's to this one right around the time the lock must have started going bad. Now the network is behaving as expected. I'm not real excited that the Ring V2 contact sensors, both less than 8 feet away connect at 40kbs, but the automations work fit enough anyway.

I now have 9 aeotec 700 series repeaters and several aeotec outlets that never pulled their weight I excluded to get rid of devices that weren't doing anything ... guess I could trade them in for a dongle...

[rlithgow1]

I had better luck with the Ring V2 Extenders than the aeotec myself..

[brad5]

Interestingly I have weird connectivity issues with my ring v2 keypads even though the problematic one is 10' from the hub and there are repeating devices less than 3 ft away. Wonder if it's something about ring...

[rlithgow1]

If it's routing through something, exclude the device the keypad is routing through, do a repair on the keypad, then add the removed device back in. Usually you can force the route change that way...