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Homey v1.5.X - Experimental
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Need to know it works please.
Andrew
Z-Wave I don't notice a whole lot of difference, still suboptimal, but at least the developer tools are more insightful. Kaku still works.
@Eternity : 1.5.6 works good for me after >3 hours updating. But it's experimental for a reason
So.... seems OK in my case and situation...
Since 1.5.6-RC6, Homey alarms (wekker in dutch), even when not active, start telling me, after a tune, it's time to get up, only an alarm-time is set, no flow is started, why ??? (yes I know I can remove the alarms)
edit: enable and disable the alarm solves this behavior, probably the default is always ON, never had this before.
Helped me before
When the problem isn't a bricked Homey please submit an issue at the Github of Athom so Athom has all problems with 1.5.6.RC6 experimental in scope and can solve them
Posting on the forum about it is not the best place to get support because it's a community forum, Athom is not always around here (but somethimes they do)
kaku is also working fine
I am really happy with the update, I finally have for 99% no more delays in the zwave network. for the remaining 1% I can see that the zwave route to devices are indeed causing the issue. So that is a matter of re-adding the devices the "right" way. One of the greatest noticeable improvements is a fibaro wall switch which only worked for a couple of hours after rebooting Homey, with this update it works flawlessly now!
In general terms (how z-wave works, not specific to Homey):
When adding a device, the surrounding devices will be taken into account when the z-wave-system plan the most efficient route. If you then move the device, the system will not know this route isn't good any more, but try to use it, although inefficient.
When information loss and delays are evident for some time, another route will be chosen as the preferred - but that may take som time, depending on the system.
I had a rough time in the beginning, as I didn't get this concept and included everything just next to Homey (and later on actually moved it as well) - but when I finally read what the experienced guys in this forum wrote - and included devices on their final destination, things changed :-)
Initially, I used a very long extension cord to walk around the house with Homey, but (again, reading the forum) I bought a powerbank and made Homey mobile :-)