What's the deal with the Schlage BE468/469 locks and when will the issue be fixed? The issue is definitely on the Hubitat side since everyone is reporting that they never had issues with the same locks with ST or Wink (including myself with a Wink 2 for over 2 years). There are numerous posts dating…

[image] tobyp24: The issue is definitely on the Hubitat side since everyone is reporting that they never had issues with the same locks with ST or Wink (including myself with a Wink 2 for over 2 years). I empathize with your frustrations with Schlage z-wave locks. I went through something sim…

Hello, What issues are you talking about? I switched 2 schlage locks from winks to hubitat and i haven't any issues. I'm using hubitat since 4 months now. I'm interesting to understand to check if i have the same.

The ongoing issues I'm having are instability issues where I press lock and sometimes it's instant and sometimes it takes minutes or just never locks/unlocks at all. If it was a slight delay I would be fine with that but when I'm relying on it to lock the doors and it never happens that is pretty fr…

I added a zwave plus repeater to my mesh. A cheap enerwave power plug with metering and that solved my issues. They say that you should put a repeater that supports beaming within 10 feet of the hub. I'm sure that there's a reason you want it close to the hub and not the lock, but I have no idea why…

The Zwave radios in locks, being battery powered, spend most of their time sleeping. When a lock/unlock command is sent from the hub, there is a good chance that the Zwave radio in the lock will be sleeping and miss the command. The hub does send the command multiple times but it then goes about its…

[image] zarthan: Wink and Schlage likely spent lots of time and money overcoming these issues and making them work even without repeaters As well as: Vera and Schlage Smartthings and Schlage Homeseer and Schlage

[image] waynespringer79: Smartthings and Schlage Can't speak to other platforms, but I used SmartThings for years and can tell you it was most certainly not conventional wisdom to use Z-Wave locks there without (specific kinds of) repeaters: FAQ: why would I need another beaming repeater if m…

[image] april.brandt: I'm sure that there's a reason you want it close to the hub and not the lock, but I have no idea why. Here's an explanation from @bobbyD [image] Schlage deadbolt battery drainage issue with Hubitat 🛎️ Get Help Please keep us posted wink Also …

[image] aaiyar: Here's an explanation The explanation is that a Z-Wave device is able to route messages via up to four repeating nodes. So by design, a "slave" is making every attempt to communicate with as few repeaters as possible.

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aaiyar November 19, 2019, 4:33pm 10

Here's an explanation from @bobbyD