Smart thing App Repair Z-wave utilities

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FAQ: Zwave repair not working (how to fix error messages)

When you run a zwave repair, The hub goes through its device table and attempts to contact each device and ask them who their current neighbors are. The hub then takes all of this information together and calculate some optimal routes in advance. It sends this routing information back to each individual device, just The part that applies to that specific device. So each device ends up with a partial routing table. All of this should make routing faster and more efficient. So in a sense the hub asks a question, the node answers, and then the hub sends out a New map for the node to use. The two common error messages that you will see are “Failed to update mesh information.” This means the node didn’t answer the first question. It didn’t send back the list of its neighbors. That might …

FAQ: How to improve the performance (responsiveness, speed) and reliability of a Z-Wave mesh

[image] This is a very common issue that folks will face when using Z-Wave devices. Over time you’ll see that your device connectivity gets slower, commands take longer to execute (higher latency), sometimes they don’t execute (loss of packets). This happens due to a variety of reasons and this Wiki will provide you with some tools to fix these issues. While this isn’t a magic bullet to fix all Z-Wave problems, it should resolve the majority of common issues with a Z-Wave Mesh. I’m not going to get into how a Z-Wave Mesh operates or Z-Wave vs ZigBee, but I will focus on 4 key issues that can severely impair the performance and reliability a Z-Wave mesh. Ghost devices: Ghost devices are devices that are no longer connected to the mesh but they still show up in the routing tables of t…