Hello,
Every time I’m sending lots of commands at once (for example turning multiple lights at once on or just turning single light on or off very fast), there is a high chance one of the devices will throw Dropping command, expected response not received after 1 attempt(s) error. And since it seems like Z-wave network can only handle one command at a time, this error consequently completely backs up the network (I can’t turn on any lights until this timeout is resolved).
- Controller is Aeotec Stick Gen 5 that is roughly in the center of the apartment. Stick is plugged into repurposed PC running Linux and hass/openzwave-qt via Docker (directly, no supervisor).
- I have pretty small apartment (No device is more than 6m and 2 walls away from the Z-stick)
- Network works perfectly well when sending commands one at a time (instant responses)
- All devices are latest gen Aeotec and Fibaro devices (so all have Z-wave plus and presumably have best available Z-wave chips?)
- All devices are paired as non-secure (pairing them securely exacerbates the issue since even more packets have to be sent)
- There is fairly big density of various mains devices throughout the apartment (so all messages are bouncing between multiple devices, for better or for worse)
- This happened with both old Z-wave integration and new beta ozw integration.
Is this just the reality of the Z-wave protocol or it’s something wrong with my network?
Thanks.