Pre-Staging Z-Wave

[upstatemike]

I was wondering if anybody is doing any pre-staging of ISY and Z-Wave? Shop time is a lot cheaper than field time so it would make sense to do as much enrolling and programming as possible in advance and just dedicate on-site time to physical installation and testing. Is this practical using an ISY and Z-Wave devices? 

[lilyoyo1]

1 hour ago, upstatemike said:

I was wondering if anybody is doing any pre-staging of ISY and Z-Wave? Shop time is a lot cheaper than field time so it would make sense to do as much enrolling and programming as possible in advance and just dedicate on-site time to physical installation and testing. Is this practical using an ISY and Z-Wave devices? 

Yes. Everything is setup prior to me going to a house to ensure everything works properly prior to Installation. I create my scenes, folders, rename, etc. before then as well. (this started with insteon but goes for anything i install)

[upstatemike]

That's good to hear. I was worried that pre-staging Z-Wave might be a problem when the switches are installed in the field and had to adjust to the new topology. I don't want to be waiting around onsite for some extended time while the switches recalculate their routing table before I can finish testing and get out of there.

[lilyoyo1]

7 minutes ago, upstatemike said:

That's good to hear. I was worried that pre-staging Z-Wave might be a problem when the switches are installed in the field and had to adjust to the new topology. I don't want to be waiting around onsite for some extended time while the switches recalculate their routing table before I can finish testing and get out of there.

You'll still want to run update neighbors. For each device. In the past, I'd simply run a network heal once done which was easier.

Back when I was heavy into it, I'd install when the house was least used so that no one could interfere.