Z-Wave LR (Long Range) support in Europe

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What is the current status of Z-Wave Long Range (LR) support in Europe (EU)?

On my C-7 (v 2.4.3.158), I only see an option for US-LR, and no option for EU-LR.

  • Will Z-Wave LR be supported on the C-7 in Europe in the future?
  • Does the C-8 Pro already support Z-Wave LR in Europe, or is it not yet enabled?

I have not been able to find a definitive answer to these questions on the forum.

Thank you.

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I’m just replying from memory, but I think SiLabs, just recently added this to their new Simplicity SDK. See: EU (Europe, inc. UK) Z-Wave Long Range (Z-Wave LR) controller firmware for all Z-Wave 800 Series in the European market (EULR RF Region, i.e. 868.42 MHz)? · zwave-js/zwave-js · Discussion #7257 · GitHub

I don’t think the ZIP gateway in a C7 will ever get this upgrade. I believe ZwaveJS supports this, but officially that’s a C8+ and above.

Even with a C8+, I think don’t think HE supports the required radio FW (yet).

Short answer, it’s not supported yet, and will likely never be on a C7, unless they get ZwaveJS back-ported, but given RAM requirements, that may a bridge too far. And even then you’ll still need for HE to release a new version of the radio firmware. But long term, this will likely be supported on a C8+ and beyond

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This is a good question... Zooz has begun enabling EU-LR in their device-level firmwares, so LR outside of the US is finally starting to grow legs.

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So, there is currently no reason to buy a C-8 in Europe solely for Z-Wave LR support, since it is not available yet and I would not be able to use it.

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Per the statement "currently no reason to buy a C8 or C8+ in Europe solely for Z-Wave LR support" - That is correct. The key words in that being currently and solely -

As of this date, 11/28/25 - Currently European frequency support is NOT available in shipping HE hubs - I would expect that to change for the C8+ hub running the ZWaveJS stack. I would NOT expect that to change for C8 and earlier hubs, running the SiLabs ZIP/Gateway Zwave stack.

Per SiLabs, EUR LR support came to the 800 series radios in Alpha in radio FW V7.22.0, and was in production, in 7.22.1 - See: https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/release-notes/SRN14930-7.22.0.0.pdf - The current HE hubs are shipping with radio FW 7.18 - For a short time, V7.23 (which supports the EUR LR frequencies), was released by HE in beta, but was pulled back, and I would expect a later version to be released (again) in the not too distant future - This will likely resolve some "Zwave Jammed" issues as well. The current SI release is V7.24.2 (https://docs.silabs.com/sisdk-release-notes/latest/sisdk-zwave-release-notes/).

Ultimately, both radio firmware and the Zwave stack are required to support this, and the current ZwaveJS stack does support EUR LR, it's just ZwaveJS is currently only support on the C8+. The Zwave ZIP/Gateway on earlier hubs will never support EUR LR, per SiLabs.

Bottom line, for HE hubs, NO EUR LR Zwave support is available at this very moment, but long term (a few weeks or months), my guess is that the C8+ WILL support EUR LR on the ZwaveJS stack, once HE decides to move beyond the V7.18 radio firmware.

Hope that helps with the details. The timing of all this is obviously controlled by HE developers and their current priorities (which are not made public)

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Thank you @GuyMan for the insights.