Hi,
I have kind of a stupid question but does having all zwave nodes added as “secure” reduce the range of the individual nodes?
I recently saw that some of my nodes were not added as secure because in the beginning I did not realize that this was for some reason not the default. So I excluded and re-included those devices (e.g. Fibaro wall plug). Now all 11 nodes (6 thermostats, 2 wall plugs, a siren and 2 flood sensors) are “secure” where previously only the thermostats were.
Now, I experience a lot more range issues where devices fall off the network without HA even noticing. All devices will show up as ready/sleeping but when issuing commands they sometimes will fail for certain devices - and they were not marked as “not available” then. Only when sending something from the zwave control panel (Refresh device , test device) the system will actually notice and change the state to “not available” or probing.
Especially the fibaro wall plug troubles me because that one is supposed to be the router for some of the thermostats. It worked for months in the same position and now it works sometimes and seomtimes not without any notice.
It seems that “securing” the network has had a disturbing effect. I thought maybe the meshing will work better once all devices are secure nodes…
Does anyone else experience that?