cdjackson
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9 years ago 1, when i look in Habmin, half my devices are showing with grey dots, and a couple with red dots. is this a problem? i have 14 z-wave devices
Red means the device is not responding. Grey means it’s not finished initialisation - this is quite normal after you start the binding, but for battery devices it will remain for quite a while depending on the wakeup configuration. If it stays too long, then I’d need to see a debug log to see what’s happening
2, some of my devices work sometimes, mainly these are the dimmer modules. two of these are much worse than others. If i control each devices (using the openhab android client) too quickly, not all modules will respond. If i slow down the control, it mostly works ok, this leads me to think i have congestion on the zwave network
It sounds likely there is RF problems with your network (as you already suspect). Maybe it’s not congestion as such, but if a node is too far from its neighbours (in RF terms, not necessarily physical distance) then retries will slow everything down considerably. I’d suggest getting a debug log and running it through the log analyser in HABmin2 (or online version).
3, when some of the dimmer modules turn on, they come on at various dimmed levels, and then dim a little up and down. i rarely have them on at 100% which is what i want most of the time.
Not much I can say about this - the startup brightness of a dimmer is not something the binding sets (unless when you turn on you’re using the a set level rather than an on/off.
i was wondering if i should create my network in habmin? what setup is not reliable at the moment.
I doubt this will make any difference - I’d suggest looking at the network topology and seeing if there are gaps.
when i switch openhab off, and return to homeseer, things are generally better. i dont want to use homeseer, so any help would be appreciated.
Openhab doesn’t currently handle retries very well, and it will slow the system down. Your system probably has some nodes that are on the fringe of the network and this is slowing things down in both systems, but openhab retry scheme is not as good as Homeseer (that’s just my guess based on what you’ve said).
big-col
Hi guys, i have a Z-wave network that was created using homeseer with an Aeon z-stick2. I only have plug in modules, a mix of dimmers and basic on/off.
my issues are: 1, when i look in Habmin, half my devices are showing with grey dots, and a couple with red dots. is this a problem? i have 14 z-wave devices
2, some of my devices work sometimes, mainly these are the dimmer modules. two of these are much worse than others. If i control each devices (using the openhab android client) too quickly, not all modules will respond. If i slow down the control, it mostly works ok, this leads me to think i have congestion on the zwave network
3, when some of the dimmer modules turn on, they come on at various dimmed levels, and then dim a little up and down. i rarely have them on at 100% which is what i want most of the time.
i was wondering if i should create my network in habmin? what setup is not reliable at the moment. when i switch openhab off, and return to homeseer, things are generally better. i dont want to use homeseer, so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks Colin