So im trying to make sure my z-wave mesh is up and as pristine as possible to try to address the concerns in this other thread. When I run z-wave repair, a couple of my devices dont complete. I see multiple "setting SUC route" messages and then after a long timeout, it moves on to the next device. Both these failing devices are perfectly working from HE, they report status correctly when refreshed and go on and off instantly when I control them from the device edit page or the dashboard, and they report their state instantly as well. In other z-wave repairs, I have seen a similar failure mode for devices that are offline or unplugged or powered off, with multiple SUC messages then nothing for a while.
So its odd that these devices that are clearly online and on the mesh and responsive, are failing the z-wave repair in the same way that a device thats powered off would, no?
A secondary query I have with the z-wave repair process is that for each device, the log message starts with "starting", then it goes to "pinging", then it goes to "setting SUC route", but I would assume it would only proceed to "setting SUC route" if the device responded to the ping? If it doesnt respond to the ping, it probably won't be able to complete any of the following steps, so why not timeout and quit there and move on. So any device thats off-line or unplugged definitely would not respond to ping, but it moves on the SUC route anyway. These devices that are online and should be responding to ping also move on the SUC route, but never complete.
I suggest you to power off your house, after 10 seconds power on, if you have the hub in a battery backup then reboot the hub, then try the z wave repair. Some devices get unresponsive and resetting the power helps to make them refresh.
Thats the second time in a few days Ive received a suggestion to power off the hub to fix an issue.
The first one was related to forcing zigbeee to re-build, turn it off for 30 minutes they said...but but but ...what if I want my house to be automated during that time?
Now you are telling me to power off my whole house??? The wife will love that.....
this HA stuff never ceases to bewilder and entertain.....
I can see the marketing material, " Fantastic home automation system, buy it now, works best with the power off."
Lol, sorry, I just want to make sure you power reset the devices, I had a similar problem and was after a power spike, I power reset them, problem solved. I hope your wife is not all day at home.
This made me laugh, sorry to suggest you powering off your house lol
I would say your node #134 is not a deleted device as its still trying to be repaired, it must still exist in HE, but may be powered off?
Most of my 25 or so z-wave nodes repair successfully, its just these 2 that seem to fail. They are both outdoors interestingly, one is a coolcam plug and one is a GE weatherproof outlet. I would say that signal strength is the issue, but I have a pretty good mesh outdoors, all my other outdoor devices pass repair just fine. Plus these 2 devices work perfectly when controlled by HE, so signal should not be an issue.
Maybe when repairing, z-wave uses a different vector to communicate with the devices?
There you go, turn off those devices in the circuit breaker! But if you have more devices outdoors then they should be fine with good mesh. Another odd thing I got, I had one device not updating the z wave repair, with my z wave tools, I discovered the device was not on the stick DB but it was on HE and it worked fine, I had to exclude it using an aeon remote, deleting the device from HE and then re pairing it back to HE, that solved the problem, no powering off your home included
Node 8: Repair is done.
Node 16: Repair is done.
Node 18: Repair is done.
Node 20: Repair is done.
Node 22: Repair is done.
Node 23: Repair is done.
Node 27: Repair is done.
Node 30: Repair is done.
Node 32: Repair is done.
Node 33: Repair is done.
Node 34: Repair is done.
Node 35: Repair is done.
Node 36: Repair is done.
Node 38: Repair is done.
Node 39: Repair is done.
Node 40: Repair is done.
Node 42: Repair is done.
Node 43: Repair is done.
If you count, there's more started than finished. And the ones that didn't finish, were battery devices.
battery devices sleep most of the time, if yours happened to be not sleeping during the repair, it could have been included. Ive never seen a battery device be listed in the repair.
I cycled the devices that aren't repairing, no change. I guess ill try removing and re-joining them. Oh joy.
How is this possible? I thought there was some kind of hard address table that the radio had to have to even be able to talk to a z-wave device. This makes me wonder why any devices need to be "on the stick" at all.
The wife will love that.....
