Rules and ZWave Best Practice

I’ll keep digging but I have seen one now saying zwave 500 and one saying not 500.

I am seeing that most of them operating at 100kbs

0x34 (052) PER: 0, RTT Avg: 4ms, LWR RSSI: 8dB
Neighbors: 27, Route Changes: 3 OKRepair in: 0x25, 0x32, 0x72, 0x86, 0x20, 0x71, 0x70, 0x27, 0x85, 0x87, 0x75, 0x56, out: Guest Left Socket None 01 -> 34 100kbps

Isn’t the 100kbs an indicator of zwave plus?

Have you look for details at https://products.z-wavealliance.org/ ?

I suspect that as the Grrenwaves appear to be connecting OK and are transmitting at 100Kbs that the issue is now the driver or HE as the Greenwaves have been solid for years and they all start being sporadically unreliable on transfer to HE.

I have ordered some Neo Coolcam zwave plus Plugs to drop in around the house and replace some of the Greenwaves, along with the existing 4 TKBHome and the Fibaro plug I should be able to stabilise core items.

Also added a slack handful of INNR Zigbee plugs to replace the Greenwaves.

I may run up my old HA and run the Greenwaves of that and put in an MQTT to manage them.

I would have preferred to run all the zwave on just HE :frowning:

For the last 36 hours a wave reliability is restored.

The switching of all a wave devices is near instantaneous.

Happy but odd.

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Always nice to hear happy updates.

So in the end you pulled the green waves off HE and this is what you have been testing for the last day and a half?

I pulled 4 Greenwaves out of the 30 connected to HE.

So not entirely sure it was the Greewaves that were the issue - but actually the symptom.

Not able to see any mass improvement topology - but every time I hit a zwave socket now it responds immediately.

So king of thinking it was 2.2.5 that fixed it

Possibly. I am going through a similar issues with my zigbee and Aqara devices right now. Although with these devices I know their are issues so I know I am causing my own issues. But they “seemed” to be affecting the performance of other devices that were fine before.

I would give it a week and then reintroduced one of them and see what happens. Depends on how attached to the green wave devices.

Ha

How attached am I to the 30 Greenwaves.....

To replace them would cost about £600 - £1,500 so kinda of well attached :slight_smile:

I have purchased 4 INNR ZB sockets and one Hue Plus - to strengthen the NON HUE ZB mesh.

And have a 4 TKB sockets (although one is being stubborn right now) and purchased a fibaro plug and ordered 5 Neo Coolcam plugs all of which are ZW Plus.

Would like to reduce number of Greenwaves to minimum, disable on HE and turn them back on for Christmas lighting etc.

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I've just started an Amazon return for the 4 Neo Coolcam plugs I installed. They look decent and the price is good, but in my house which is pretty small (3 bed semi - approx 14m x 6m) they weren't picking up many neighbouring devices (despite being relatively close to other devices). I posted regarding this earlier having replaced just one with the more expensive Fibaro plug. The Neo Coolcam only picked up 2 of the 15 nodes in my house, while the Fibaro immediately found 9. As I'd installed them to replace Zigbee sockets in order to beef up the mesh with repeaters, they are IMHO no good in this regard and my topology was fast starting to look like a mini version of yours. I've another 4 Fibaro's coming tomorrow to replace them. £54 as opposed to £32 but hey ho - they need to work.

I have both the coolcams for £18 each - I have a Fibaro and plan to get one or two every month to replace the Greenwaves that Hubitat seems to have such difficulty with.

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