[OBSOLETE] Iris Smart Plug (3210-L) Zigbee Plug with Z-wave Repeater

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You are pretty much right on the money with that.

When the zwave repair is done the devices find the fastest and best route to the hub, all within the 4 hop limit. If the repeater is part of that route and it is on, than good. Especially if that repeater is used to extend the range of the mesh, as most are.

If that repeater drops offline and the devices using it are outside of the mesh range, than they will fail to function and signals will be lost.

If the devices are within the mesh range, and use the repeater, and it is not available, the signal must find a new route to the hub, all within four hops.

So yes, I consider the repeater to be pretty much useless.

Of thing is, the device is pulling about a watt of power even when it is off. I didn’t think the zone radio would need that much.

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I just picked up 3.

Lowes have buy 2 and get the third free.

I think its a sweet deal.

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Remember it has two radios in it. 0.5 W for each would be pretty typical.

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But then the theory that zigbee powers down zwave falls through…actually no…zigbee on = zwave on = 1 w , and zigbee off = zwave off = .05 …@bamarayne?

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A good way to test this for sure would be to try and pair the z-wave device with the switch turned off (will be tricky, obviously)

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Well that might explain why I had a hell of the time pairing the zwave. And now that you mentioned, I may know why…lol

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Mine pull one watt when off or on.

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I tested one here with Kill-A-Watt P3, I don’t know how accurate that is, but when the switch of the plug is Off the kill-a-watt display switches between 0.5W and 0.6W, when On it switches between 0.8W, 0.9W and 1.0W.

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You are right. I did it the exact same way… Except it was 4am when I did it. Lol

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Hi,

I picked up 3 plug to extend the range in my house.

After pairing the plugs and put it in the location I need, do I need to repair z-wave.

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Once they are all paired you will want to do a Z-wave repair in order to add them into your mesh routing.

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I just did a z-wave repair with both of the plugs ON and then both of the plugs OFF

Same result… no errors (the garage door is too far to get a solid signal so it always fails)

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I added the device handler, published it, but when trying to connect to the Iris plug, all I get is unknown Thing in my app. It does find a zwave device but I really want this to function as a zigbee repeater. I’ve tried the plug reset a few times but still no luck. Can someone please help?

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If you get “thing” then just switch the device handler in IDE to the one from this thread or the st smartplug.

That’s if you purely want Zigbee repeat.

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Under My Devices, nothing shows up in IDE. How do I switch device handler?

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Do you see the device labeled “thing”. Click on it then go to edit, you should see a place to change the device handler.

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No devices show up in the web interface, even though they show up in the app. Am I supposed to be seeing devices in app show up in web interface?

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Sounds like you are logging into the wrong IDE. Are you in North America and only recently added a hub? If so you should be using https://graph-na02-useast1.API.SmartThings.Com

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Can anyone advise me on how to get the device handler created. I have copied the code from the top of this thread but each time I try to create it I get the following.

Org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed: script14630742428051381910973.groovy: 30: expecting ‘}’, found ‘,’ @ line 30, column 27. 30 attribute “heartbeat”, “string” ^ 1 error

I bought on of these today but not able to get it working yet.

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To confirm, you’re adding it as a Device Handler?