I have 3 pcs of Swiid Cord Switch but unfortunately, they are not z-wave plus so I will not use them.
I have been searching for alternatives and found Frient Smart Cable only problem is that it is huge.
Is there anybody who have some ideas what could be a good alternative to the Swiid Cord Switch?
Since I use it on a rather large area covering 4 buildings (soon to be 5) with about 150 units in total at the moment (but slowly growing ) I need both the extended bandwidth and the extended range in z-wave plus.
Introducing a z-wave only will disrupt my network.
Do you have any problems with these switches at the moment? E.g. disconnections?
And you think that by replacing the Z-Wave switches with Z-Wave Plus switches, a huge improvement in coverage will be realized?
Because when I introduce none plus units everything that comes after will be limited by that device. I will lose bandwith and hop.
Since I can´t and don´t want (even if I could) to manage the structure of the z-wave mesh network manually this will disrupt the network.
Many times the none z-wave unit becomes the end of the line.
And yes, I have replaced all the none plus devices a long time ago and it made a huge diffrence.
The smart cord switch is the last, and least important.
You could perhaps create a second ZWave network just for these devices (if you have a second controller somewhere) and maybe use zwave2mqtt to get the Swiid devices into Homey…
I have done that before but it adds complexity which I want to avoid.
A few years ago, I decided try out the Zipabox from Zipato, so I bought a new Zipabox 2 and an used Zipabox 1 and created a cluster with 2 networks.
I left Zipabox and went for Fibaro HC3 because of the horrendous customer support from Zipato and the lack of implementation of new devices.
However, let´s just say I don´t want to go down that route again.
Then I left Fibaro HC3 and went for Homey Pro because I needed the integration with my electric supplier Tibber.