I have a Dome Z-Wave motion sensor at the bottom of my basement stairs that has been connected to my HUSBZB-1 stick (Only using Z-Wave on this) for years without issues. A few days ago I started having issues with this motion sensor, It seemed to be erratic so as I have never replaced the battery that is the first thing I did. If I put it in the hallway outside the room my HSUSBZB-1 is it works without issues. If I put it back in the place it has been forever what I noticed is that in my dashboard it is constantly detecting motion. I can move it too the top of the basement stairs and after about 30 seconds it stops detecting motion and works properly.
I have excluded it and factory reset it but still the same thing happens, I also had a Leviton zwave plug that also gave me issues recently so I removed it and replaced it with a Tradfri Zigbee plug as I had another one of these that went bad last year but now I am wondering if something else is going on.
Could something be going on with my Zwave stick ? I have 4 Schlage Zwave locks on the main floor that are all working perfectly. I am running Zwave JS btw. Not sure if this is related to a zwave JS update recently as I have had zero issues with my small network for years.
Really scratching my head with this one and would love to hear any thoughts on this.
I thought I would provide a small update, after some research I tried adding the motion sensor without security but the problem is exactly the same, If I leave the sensor on a table outside the room the coordinator is in it works perfectly, if I then move it down to the bottom of the basement stairs which is literally straight across from the room the coordinator is in the sensor detects motion constantly.
I have no idea what to do now, I can’t help but think a recent update might have broken something. This Dome motion sensor has been rock solid for years.
Hopefully someone can offer some insight as to what the heck might be going on
It doesn’t seem to be loosing connection, I had it at the top of the stairs all morning and the sensor was still triggering the lights at the bottom of the stairs, the minute I move the sensor down a few stairs it shows that it is detecting motion all the time. I can ping it from the Z-Wave JS dashboard.
Maybe it is the actual device starting to go bad.
Thank you,
I will take a look. This sensor has been in the exact same place for several years and has never had an issue, there is nothing that I can see that is causing interference down there. That’s what is so weird. I am going to add it again and move it to the same spot on the 2nd floor and see if I can replicate the problem just to rule out some weird interference.