ZWave, Heal Network and Battery Devices

[gduprey]

Howdy,

 

I have about 30 battery powered ZWave devices (not locks, but devices that sleep and need to be woken up manually to program, like temp sensors, door sensors, etc). I'm about to replace my existing ZWave repeaters with the Aeon ZWave Siren which has been reported to be both a stronger repeater and support the secured beaming stuff to allow locks to be repeated.  Clearly after adding the devices and putting them in the final location, I'll have to heal the zwave network.

 

My question: For all those 30+ battery devices, do I have to visit each and "wake" them up during the heal?  Or does the heal understand that battery devices may take up to 24 hours to check in and when they eventually do, the "pending" heal for them will complete?

 

Also, guessing it would be a bad idea to mix the sirens with existing zwave repeaters as the sirens support security stuff and the standard "mini" repeaters don't.  But I wanted to check -- does Zwave/ISY understand that some repeaters do security and some don't and will route/heal appropriately for them?

 

Thanks!

 

Gerry

[Chris Jahn]

My question: For all those 30+ battery devices, do I have to visit each and "wake" them up during the heal?  Or does the heal understand that battery devices may take up to 24 hours to check in and when they eventually do, the "pending" heal for them will complete?

 

The heal will be pending until the device wakes up, so you don't have to wake them all up at once. 

 

 

 

Also, guessing it would be a bad idea to mix the sirens with existing zwave repeaters as the sirens support security stuff and the standard "mini" repeaters don't.  But I wanted to check -- does Zwave/ISY understand that some repeaters do security and some don't and will route/heal appropriately for them?

 

 

 

There is no specific logic for detecting this, but Z-Wave should route appropriately simply because it tries potential routes until they find the best ones that actually work.

[gduprey]

Thanks!  Thats good to know!

[cyberk]

Talking about device wake up, some of my devices allow their wake up time to be set using the Wake Up Command. It doesn't seem to be a device parameter, but a Zwave Command Class. How can I configure this within the ISY?

 

Example: Zooz ZSE40, 4 in 1 multisensor.

 

 

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[Chris Jahn]

Talking about device wake up, some of my devices allow their wake up time to be set using the Wake Up Command. It doesn't seem to be a device parameter, but a Zwave Command Class. How can I configure this within the ISY?

 

Example: Zooz ZSE40, 4 in 1 multisensor.

 

 

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Hi cyberk,

 

In the 5.0.x release, for each individual device that supports wakeup you can now set the wakeup interval in the Admin Console or in programs.

[cyberk]

Thanks Chris

 

I'm 4.x, can this be set via REST?

 

 

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[Chris Jahn]

Thanks Chris

 

I'm 4.x, can this be set via REST?

 

 

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Hi cyberk,

 

Unfortunately no, you cannot modify this in 4.x