Hi, I am hoping that someone can help with issues I have am having with zwave locks. The locks themselves seem to work fine if I unlock and lock directly from the device page, but as soon as try to do it from rule, it usually only works after a long delay and sometimes never at all.
Here is a perfect example that I put together as a test. I have a simple rule that just locks the door on a virtual button press. at 2:29:19, i push the button to trigger the rule, this happens immediately yet it takes nearly 49 seconds 2:30:08 for the lock to react. Prior to the tests I unlocked and locked repeatedly from the device page without really any delay at all.
Here are the logs from the device. Any thoughts on why the delay is here? What is a supervised session?
Ok 0xb is a ghost and needs removed. This will definitely interfere with commands
0x42 Is ghost like (note no route) it could be because it's a sleepy device but it's mains powered so unlikely. I would exlude, factory reset and re pair it.
I would also re pair anything with s0 or s2 without security. The only thing recommended to use security with are locks and garage door items. Doing those things (especially dealing with ghosts) will make your mesh a lot happier.
I did play a little morning and I noticed when I took the front door lock out of the rule, the response time was much better, at least this morning. If one device in a rule is a weaker signal, could that effect the speed of the rule for devices with stronger signals? Are action issued in serial or parallel?
OK Everyone thanks for the advice. I got rid of the ghosts using the external ZWAVE PCController and have repaired all devices to security "None". With the locks
I have one that is S2 Access Control (Ultraloc) and one that is S0 (Yale). Should I leave those as is for best performance.
So far things do seem a little snapier, but I'll give it few days and see how it all goes.
I switched my z-wave lever lock and deadbolt to new Yale zigbee locks about 2.5 years ago. I find these to be 100% reliable, without needing any bandaids. My memory says that even the author of Reliable Locks changed the radios in his locks to zigbee radios.
What lock brand is?
I am using August Lock Pro with built-in ZWave.
By itself lock works perfectly fine.
However it never worked reliably over ZWave.
Stupid thing goes to sleep. If it is not sleeping ZWave works as expected.
But when it goes to sleep ZWave is not functional.
I do have few beaming repeaters and I did try "Reliable Lock".
Nothing really helped.
My solution is - Home Assistant.
I installed HA for getting rid of the SwitchBot Cloud for curtains.
As a side effect I found August Integration.
Bingo!
I really hate clouds but it is better than nothing.
I just got this new ultraloq bolt pro, which is what sent me down this rabbit hole of finally figured out why all my home automation works great except for my locks. I love that it has a physical key (schlage key), fingerprint AND zwave. But not if the zwave is going to be as flaky as my 10 year old quickset lock. I am confused why vendors continue to make zwave locks if the protocal just doesn't work well with it.
Yeah that one is great. You still have a ton of route changes from the lock. When you put the repeater in, do a repair on the lock. If that doesn't force the route change to the repeater, re pair the lock.
A lot of things come into play even with mains devices acting as repeaters. Metal boxes, stuff in the walls, etc. It's always recommended to use a beaming repeater as close to locks as you can. Will also help with battery use.
