Smartwings Z-Wave roller blinds lag/erratic behaviors

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Hi guys, I’ve been adding smartwings zwave roller blinds to my home assistant and I’ve been having some unwanted behavior.

When using the smartwings remote the blinds answer pretty much instantly. When using home assistant, however, I get variable lag… Ideally I’d like the blinds to come up/down in sync in the same room…

I’m wondering if this is a problem with the blinds, if its something with my setup, or just configuration… I’m using a Zooz 800LR dongle, I have some powered ZWave devices throughout the apartment, I dont think the zwave network is “bad” per se, but I dont have a lot of experience…

I’ve tried healing the network, but dont see any difference…

I’ve grouped the blinds within Home Assistant (I understand there isnt a way of doing a ZWave group like a Zigbee group, which would perhaps help this issue)… Is there a way of improving this or at least can someone kindly point me to where I’d monitor for errors?

(I also notice that something the HA cover group that has the blinds seems to be out of sync with where the blinds are, like if one blind goes to the requested position, but another “misses out” on the command)…

Any and all help is appreciated…

I’ve considered changing the motors to their new Matter version, but I dont want to do that unless I’m relatively sure it would fix the performance issues?

Thanks very much for all help!

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I have the variable delay at times. I have a z-wave repeater in my attic and if I unplug it and plug it back in the delay goes away. Not sure what to make of it but it seems to be 100% caused by something with z-wave. It’s only the shades though. Maybe they need to be directly connected to the hub.

In other areas of my house I have motion sensors which trigger z-wave light switches and they are instant.

The delay effect is terrible. When I use my voice assistant, I wait and then one starts moving and sometime later the other starts moving.

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Hi Brian, this sounds just like what I have… I’m climbing up the walls haha…

I will try and search if there is some way to for the blinds to stick directly to the controller… I have a few keypads that act as repeaters so I can just “unplug” them to test unfortauntely… thanks anyways!!