Insteon is working fine but ZWave has troubles. Should I just start over?

[philgood]

I recently completed my IoP upgrade, including adding my new ZMatter board and was really looking forward to having an easier time getting ZWave devices to work but things still don't work as I had hoped.  With adding and deleting devices so many times, I've lost track of which device is which and think it might be best to simply delete all my ZWave devices and then start adding them back in one by one.

One major point of frustration is ZWaves apparent inability to identify the device shown on the ISY Admin Console and any specific installed device. How I miss the manufacture assigned HEX addresses, where you could run a Generate Topology report and match the HEX code to a specific device.  Okay enough lamenting for the good'ol days, ask a question.

First, am I correct in saying there is no way to identify individual ZWave devices? They are identified only by the sequence in which they are installed?

Is there a recommended way to verify that once installed, the ZWave device is solidly added to your system and not on the fringe of connectivity?  Is there a way to tell the quality of the RF signal?

If I want to start over with my ZWave devices, do I just delete them from my network tree?

Is there a primer on ZWave that gets a newbie going in a good direction, so they don't get on the forums and ask one questions after another?

Thanks,

phil

[oberkc]

30 minutes ago, philgood said:

First, am I correct in saying there is no way to identify individual ZWave devices?

I don't find identifying z-wave devices any more cumbersome than Insteon.  Both are initially obscure numbers when initially added to the ISY.  In both cases, I give them meaningful names right after I add them.

[oberkc]

46 minutes ago, philgood said:

Is there a recommended way to verify that once installed, the ZWave device is solidly added to your system and not on the fringe of connectivity?  Is there a way to tell the quality of the RF signal?

No way that I know of

46 minutes ago, philgood said:

If I want to start over with my ZWave devices, do I just delete them from my network tree?

No, more than that.  I believe you would need also to "exclude" each device.

 

47 minutes ago, philgood said:

Is there a primer on ZWave that gets a newbie going in a good direction, so they don't get on the forums and ask one questions after another?

There are places in the wiki that may be of use.  There may be more, but here are a few:

https://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=Main_Page#Z-Wave_Plus™_for_ISY-994_Series

https://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=Main_Page#Z-Wave_Quick_Start_Guide

[Papa C]

I just did this very thing this past Sunday.  Have an Aeon Switch 6 that won't stay on the network (even prior to eisy/zmatter) and in the course of fighting with it a Multisensor started acting up.  After migrating there were "extra" nodes added for nearly everything (and named ZY instead of ZW), so said "what the hell".  Blew em all away and started over.  As someone said above, you need to EXCLUDE them.  As I had less than a dozen devices and have removed and added some a few times they were starting with numbers in the 20's which really grated on me.  So, after excluding them all, I reset the Zmatter board and then started readding them.  This put them all in, in the order I wanted starting with device ZY 002.  Per something I saw here that if added non secure they seemed to work faster, I added the Multisensors I had NON secure.  Not sure if their faster or not, but they HAD in the past sometimes dragged to act (second or two from sensor blink to light on) and they seem to bring the light up consistantly faster.  A Zooz Zen Relay also during the interview process requested "Unverified" S2 (don't remember the exact wording, but seems to be working just fine as everything else.