Is it possible to edit the routine of Z-Wave devices? I used the tool in developers page of Homey to see the routes, and many of them make no sense at all—leading to delays and often unreachable nodes. Please help—this has been highly frustrating!

No. For unreachable nodes issues, a flood of event messages can cripple the mesh; check for “chatty” sensors (f.i. Aeotec): adjust settings with “every second do X” and such to, like every 15 seconds. Z-wave knowledge base: https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/search?utf8=✓&query=Z-wave&commit=Sear…

I had four Aeotec Trisensors clearing motion every 5 seconds. Could this be it? On the other hand, is there a way to reset the whole network without me needing to manually pair each device again? Most of my devices are Shelly 2PM behind switchboards, so it would be a lot of work to re-do them all. …

When you power-down your Homey for12 minutes (called PTP), then after power up, the z-wave mesh network will be new build-up again, z-wave mesh network is self configuring, so there is no need or possibility to do this manualy, it can take several hours before the configuring is optimal.

I didn’t know that, thank you. Would turning off the power for all the lights (where the Shelly Z-Wave relays are all connected) produce a similar effect?

[image] Giovanni_Dienstmann: Is it possible to edit the routine of Z-Wave devices? No, as Peter already mentioned. However, you can reorganize the route of a Z-Wave device using the Heal function in Developer Tools (hidden behind the 3 dots on the right-hand side). The Z-Wave device then sear…

Yes, I tried using Heal, and in about 1/3 of the cases it works. For the rest of cases, the node is still unreachable. As to which nodes are not reachable, some of them are always the same, others vary from time to time. They would be reachable one day and unreachable in the next, or vice-versa. I’…

[image] Giovanni_Dienstmann: Is it Homey that decides the routes of the zwave devices, or the devices themselves? Z-wave does: https://www.vesternet.com/en-eu/pages/understanding-z-wave-networks-nodes-devices _ [image] Giovanni_Dienstmann: Aeotec motion sensors died within a week, A…

First of all, It wasn’t very smart to start with adding the battery-powered sensors first. They don’t act as router and therefore cannot forward the Z-Wave signal for other devices. And if they are from the beginning too far away to Homey or a router, the chance is small that they will integrate int…

Thank you for your thorough response, Dirk. I’m new to all of this and this was very helpful. What happened is that since the mesh was not working properly, I turned off the light main switch for a few minutes, to get it all to reconfigure. Of course, what ended up happening was that the battery po…

[image] Giovanni_Dienstmann: reconfigure the zwave network I don’t know if “reconfiguration” is the right term for this, but after a PTP the Z-Wave network, also called mesh, reorganize itself new as @JPe4619 already mentioned. If your Homey looks like a big black ice hockey puck, then it’s …

Manually editing Z-Wave routes

Questions & Help

Peter_Kawa September 15, 2024, 11:53am 15

There’s a bunch of kb articles about zwave:

Topic		Replies	Views
Z-Wave network reliability Questions & Help domoticz	45	2779	May 28, 2023
Report unreachable Z-wave devices Ideas & Suggestions	32	5350	May 1, 2023
How to remove ghost/unknown/dead Z-wave nodes Questions & Help	39	6440	October 21, 2022
How to interpret Developer Z-Wave Node columns? Devices z-wave	32	6089	January 30, 2021
ZWave Network Heal Devices	69	15194	July 17, 2022

Manually editing Z-Wave routes

Related topics