Looking for some help on what best to set these values to so I get accurate energy monitoring.
I have just installed a bunch of these and nearly took down my zwave network with traffic after enabling stuff with short report periods.
Im interested to see what responses you get here…
I found even with reports disabled (parameter 80) it will send power and energy reports, but to be honest I’m still trying to work out exactly what the magic combination is.
The frequency of reporting you need will depend on the use case - for some of mine I only have it update once every ten minutes.
I have a different Aoetec switch ZWA023 but it has similar config parameters. I set it to report every 10 minutes and then use the thresholds to send power data when it changes by more than 10 watts. My load is pretty static when it’s on (gas water heater), so basically that 10 watts sends me a message or two as is starts and one when it shutdowns, and maybe another one based on the 10 minute interval.
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My 078s behave slightly differently from 096s, they are a little odd. I’ll put up details tomorrow.
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Thanks. Curious - how did you know the traffic was significant?
I have 110 zwave devices and performance is hit and miss. Would like to see if I have some unnecessary chatter.
Everything started to slow down, I couldn’t add the next smart switch. I then used the ZWave JS UI’s log viewer and there was a pretty steady stream of failed to communicate messages. When I backed off the smart switches’ rates and chatter it improved. I have about 60 ZWave devices, and my network is pretty responsive most of the time - only time usually I notice slow is if I send a “turn on all lights” or similar, which can take ages.
Thanks. Will check into that