Z-Wave Network Repair / Routes

[HalD (Hal)]

Thanks! How did you determine that you had a dead device? All my devices work, I just have unpredictable slowdowns.

All the Z-wave devices I have so far are smart switches and dimmers. Mostly Zooz with a few Leviton and one GE/Jasco. All are Z-wave plus.

The heart of my house is a 22ft x 50ft space which incorporates the kitchen, dining room, wet bar, and living room. Leading out of it are three hallways, the front entry, and multiple glass sliding doors to the porch and patio.

There are 30 switches at various points around this one room that operate a large number of interior and exterior lights. Out of my 23 Z-wave devices, 19 are in this one space. I’ve also got 2 GE Zigbee devices (a switch and a dimmer).

All the Z-wave repair errors I get involve the devices in this one room. I’ve looked at the routes and they are nonsensical. Devices in the same multi-gang box will route in completely opposite directions. See this thread:

Thinking about rebuilding Z-wave mesh

I currently have 23 Z-wave plus switches and dimmers. No Z-wave classic, no battery powered devices. I’m back to Z-wave repair throwing up “could not assign new route” errors on 18 devices. Now that we can see the mesh routes in the IDE, I’m seeing some really stupid looking stuff. I’m thinking about going thru my devices, starting near the hub, and replacing each device with itself. Not doing any physical device change but removing and re-adding in a way that won’t require rebuilding scenes and automations. Any thoughts on this? What would the steps be for each device?

I see the slow responses when triggering scenes, either via the new, STSC app or via Alexa. What I usually see is instant response for most devices in the scene, with a 30 to 60 second delay on one or two random devices.

I don’t use WebCore, what Automations I have are in Smart Lighting or the new STSC Automations.

I’ve lamented about this before including on a thread I started here:

Limit to # devices in a scene?

For some time now I have had two scenes (new app) that I use at bedtime or when leaving the house. One is “All inside lights off” and one is “All outside lights off”. I’ve got an Alexa Routine that is triggered by the phrase “Lights out” This has worked great for the last couple of months as I slowly added additional smart switches and dimmers. It would sometimes take up to maybe 90 seconds to work thru everything but was 100% solid. Two days ago I added a Peanut Plug to control the Christmas tree lights. Since then, I’m getting one or two lights left on, so far always inside lights. The “outside lights off” scene has 9 real switches and dimmers and 4 virtuals. The “inside lights off” scene has 12 real devices and 2 virtuals. The recently added plug is part of the inside lights scene. …

Would love to figure this out.