hi hubitat community,
I have a zwave network of ~10 (only mains connected) devices including my heating relays and sensors. I also have some aeotec sockets which are sometimes turned off for various reasons. I'm looking for somehow segmenting my zwave network to force my devices controlling my heating to be kept intact no matter what other devices do. Is there a way for creating "static route" for some devices? e.g. static route my relays and sensors serving my heating and then keeping all the rest to build their own connections ?
Not how ZWave works unfortunately
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yea . I'm reading around and I found no solution.
Maybe have a second hub and create two seperate Zwave Networks. One that has always powered connected devices while the other is kind of expected to be unreliaable with devices that come and go. The solution though is just to make sure repeating devices don't loose power.
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You could change out your heating stuff to Z-Wave Long Range.
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I throw all devices away and rebuild my network with zigbee only. fed up w/ wave .
Same issue there - no way to dictate routes.
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I did the opposite. Only one zigbee device left.
Might just want to replace half the devices and run one ZB mesh and one ZW mesh (or get another hub like @mavrrick58 suggested).
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Zwave LR does seem to be a valid solution as well as LR is point to point. If the big problem revolves around the Plugs being pulled from the network. Zooz has their Zen04 of which the most recent version is Zwave LR. If they are added as LR devices they won't impact the zwave mesh when they loose power. I have a few of the preorder Zwave 700 series and they work well.
One extra concern to consider though may be if reliability is based on the need for those to be a alternate path for mesh. You may want to look at your zwave details page to see if those relay or sensor devices are often going through repeaters.
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Or do LR and not do mesh at all.
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I have 23 ZEN04 800 LRs in service.
Nice. I really like the Zen04. It is great for power monitoring to trigger states based off of that info.
If you go down the Zen04 route make sure you check out @jtp10181 driver for it. It really allows the device to shine.
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Just now, in an unscientific test, I plugged in a rarely used ZEN04 that powers a heater in a powder room. Last check in date was 4/2/25. Worked instantly.
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Same, I have a ZEN05 (outdoor plug) that I use for holiday lights. It is on the outside of the mesh so it does not repeat for other devices. Plugged it in a few weeks ago and worked instantly, no fuss. I have two indoor Zigbee plugs which I do the same and no problems with those either.
RE @IrisetH issue, if when the Aeotec devices get powered off it disrupts other devices that would normally mean they were being used for repeaters. Otherwise a device not being used for a repeater can drop off the mesh without causing much trouble.
You can set a primary route on devices, such as direct to the hub. This will not force that route but I believe every time the device re-routes it will try that route first and give it priority. Here is the article I have saved about it: July 2021 – DrZWave . I have done this on a few devices in my mesh using a USB stick and PC Controller, it did not seem to change a whole lot. I think I have a forums post somewhere with basic instructions on how to do it with PC Controller.
