For many of my z-wave devices, especially (but not exclusively) those furthest away from Homey Z-Wave connection seems to be very poor. I get either “Network request failed”, “Transmit_No_Ack”, “…timeout”, etc.
More or less everything I read here, explains that as a mesh technology, z-wave connectivity problems are solved by ensuring there are mains-powered z-waves devices near the ones suffering poor connectivity because they automatically act as repeaters.
So how far is near enough? In most cases the devices regularly failing for me are within 1-2.5 metres of the next nearest device. we have 80+ z-wave devices of which ~50 are mains powered (mostly fibaro relays/dimmers and aeotec multisensors). Surely this should be adequate?
I’ve re-added the devices from scratch 4 times, (2 days effort each time. the 4th time, in developer.athom . com I clicked ‘Reset Z-Wave network’, mistakenly thinking it would work like Fibaro home center, where it rebuilds the mesh, rather than uninstalling all the devices!)
I also moved the homey all over the house in different locations, but it doesn’t make any difference.
Somewhat unhelpfully some devices in showing connection errors in the browser-based homey UI and app are reachable in the ‘Test’ part of developer.athom . com.
Am I missing something basic here? Can anay body with experience of overcoming these things provide some guidance
Yes, I see between 2-4 hops from Homey to each device/node, and every so often ‘unknown nodes’ but not sure what else can derived from that list for the lay user
Yes, thanks, I do exactly that when it comes up, but as the next post in that thread, it often doesn’t actually mean they’re unreachable. It seems to be another z-wave unreliability
