First of all, my whole house is within range of the Z-Wave signal from my HE hub. All the switches and sensors work well, it's just the locks that were giving me trouble. I got one Aeotec range extender and put it near my hub, and immediately my front door lock started to behave. So I reasoned th…

I would agree with your observations, my results have been similar. Z-wave routes where it want and when it wants. I have had no luck "forcing" the hub to use the repeaters no matter how much rearranging I do.

Are there any tools to evaluate the health of a Z-wave network? Maybe to see the route a message takes? I have one Z-wave outlet that has a network test mode but it's quite crude, just showing a color code for connection quality. Seems like there ought to be a way to get some kind of useful info ou…

My experience has been quite the opposite. I have 3 aeotec repeaters and an enerwave zwave plus plug that supports beaming. My schlage lock seems to love the enerwave plug that's all the way on the opposite side of the house. My other two Alfreds repeat through an aeotec repater that's closer to the…

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Seems like there ought to be a way

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