I have a long hallway with rooms at both ends in my house. The hub is at one end, and my bedroom is at the other. Long means like 50’ from end of one room to the end of the other. My hub is slightly off the center line, and the lamp module I want it to talk to is slightly off in the same directio…

We need the model numbers to tell what’s going on. GE makes both zig bee and zwave plug-ins that look identical, But since zigbee repeats only for zigbee and zwave repeats only for Z Wave, it makes a big difference. Also, after you add the new devices, you have to do a network heal or the lamp …

Also, line of sight doesn’t matter for either zwave or zigbee, both protocols will operate through walls. However, the material of the walls can degrade the signal, so you do get the farthest transmission through clear air. :sunglasses:

Thanks for your reply. The dimmers are GE 12718, and say zwave on the box. I did try a network repair. I think I had done it before also, but not 100% sure. When I do it though I get failed to update mesh info for all three dimmers. Then I get failed to update route for the closest repeater (wh…

Does it say “could not assign new route”? If so, trying to exclude that particular device and include it again – – the hub is saying that it cannot be controlled, which is not good. [image] FAQ: Zwave repair not working (how to fix error messages) FAQ I’m having challeng…

nope, it said “failed to update route” But interestingly I was poking around, and setup the ide. I logged in and looked at devices. That device said it was offline. But it had been online 5 hours ago. So I sent it a signal to turn on (nothing is plugged in, but it is a dimmer anyway) . Well it…

I looked it up. Says 330 feet outdoors, so even with wi-fi interference 34 feet seems like it should be doable. Sounds like the repeater maybe bad…

Z wave devices should be OK up to about 50 feet in typical US construction. If you live in a house with Adobe, brick, or cement walls, or if you have foil wallpaper, or foil backed insulation inside the walls, or a water pipe heating system, that could reduce range. If it was me, I would just remo…

Also Wi-Fi doesn’t interfere with Z wave. Just Zigbee. So that part should be OK. [image] A Guide to Wireless Range & Repeaters FAQ

I was just trying that. :slight_smile: But the results weren’t encouraging. I ran repair 3 times. The message were at least different between the 3… 1 - failed to update mesh on the farthest dimmer (with the actual lamp), and a dialed to update route on the now nearest dimmer (repeater number 2 …

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Also Wi-Fi doesn’t interfere with Z wave. Just Zigbee. So that part should be OK.

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