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Manually set Z-wave hubs
Cuflee
Member
Hi,
Within Athom Developer under Z-Wave you can see the hubs that Z-Wave devices take to get to Homey. A monkey could probably make better choices. Is there a way to configure those hubs manually? My Z-Wave network is slow and unstable and I think it has to do with it taking the wrong routes to devices. My homey is in the living room. There is a Z-Wave Fibaro dimmer on the ceiling directly under the bedroom a floor above. Within that bedroom there are 2 more dimmers and a z-wave wall switch. One of the dimmers is routed to the dimmer below before it runs to Homey and that dimmer is stable. The other 2 route directly to Homey and they fail a lot (Homey is a lot further away in this case). For other dimmers another floor up it is even worse, they also tempt to connect to Homey directly without using one of the hubs. Hope this can be manually configurable or get a lot more intelligent.
Best regards,
Arjan.
Within Athom Developer under Z-Wave you can see the hubs that Z-Wave devices take to get to Homey. A monkey could probably make better choices. Is there a way to configure those hubs manually? My Z-Wave network is slow and unstable and I think it has to do with it taking the wrong routes to devices. My homey is in the living room. There is a Z-Wave Fibaro dimmer on the ceiling directly under the bedroom a floor above. Within that bedroom there are 2 more dimmers and a z-wave wall switch. One of the dimmers is routed to the dimmer below before it runs to Homey and that dimmer is stable. The other 2 route directly to Homey and they fail a lot (Homey is a lot further away in this case). For other dimmers another floor up it is even worse, they also tempt to connect to Homey directly without using one of the hubs. Hope this can be manually configurable or get a lot more intelligent.
Best regards,
Arjan.
Comments
You can only do a heal command to update a powered device's internal table of routing devices nearby so the route might get better afterwards.
But just because you find that the route is inefficient, doesn't mean it is.
There is a lot of factors that you can't see, that can lower, for example, the range tremendously and thus the other route being better.
Typically hops of 5 meters provide a good mesh network.