New to IOT: A Few Questions about Mesh Networks

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

Howdy,

Your Topic Subject Line is a little confusing, as “Rules” generally refer to Automations (i.e., stuff that should automatically happen on a schedule or when a door sensor opens or a motion sensor detects motion, etc.). SmartThings implements Rules as SmartApps such as Smart Lighting, or through 3rd Party add-ons like Smart Rules or WebCoRE.

You’re talking about networking…

These are covered in the FAQ Category; here’s a couple good starting points, and @JDRoberts probably knows a few more offhand:

A Guide to Wireless Range & Repeaters

FAQ: Is this device a repeater?

you’ve read a little about range and message repeating, and you suspect that the reason why there’s this huge lag in a lightswitch going on in your bedroom, or why you’re having problems with your lock, is because your Devices are out of range. Adding a second hub won’t help under the current architecture. Whether it’s v1 or v2. To extend the mesh, you need more devices capable of “repeating” the specific messages you want repeated. That’s so they can do their little relay thing of passing the message along like a old-fashioned horseback messengers. Ride till your horse gets tired (end of your range) pass the message onto the next guy who then rides as far as he can and so on until the message reaches its destination. which devices don’t repeat Most battery-powered devices do not rep…