Hello everyone.
Pretty new with this, so I am working things out slowly. Trying to setup a Z-Wave Network that will span accross three floors in my home. (yes, I have started to understand that can be a challenge)
I have a Raspberrypi4 as hub running Home Assistant and an Aeotec Gen 5 Z-wave Usb controller.
The hub is placed on the second (mid) floor centrally to try reach out as far as possible. Then I have bought about 10 Powerplugs and one “ZWave Repeater” which I intended to use to “build out the mesh” from the controller. So far so good.
The problem I am running into is that the network is very unreliable. Some of the Powerplugs react instantly, some of them might take 10 seconds to trigger after I send a command.
I have tried to start figure out what is going on, and I note one oddity. When I run Heal Network I see some nodes mentioned in the log that should not be there?
I currently have 12 (powered) devices, (10 plugs, 2 dimmers), and the highest node ID should be 14.
(that’s the highest I can see in the list of nodes from Z-Wave Node Management, and goes well in line with adding 13 in addition to the controller. They are also ordered 1-14 accordingly there)
In the log, Node 33, 39, 44 is mentioned… (it oddly even seems these nodes somehow respond?.. still they never appear as neighbour to any other nodes…)
I wonder if this could be some kind of remains from my first install-attempts, messing up with my network now?
I have tried to google for this, and it seems removing “dead nodes” is a common problem. In this case they don’t really seem to appear as dead nodes though. They are somehow ghosting in the system?.. I have tried to reset the USB-stick according to the instructions (which made it appear as “fresh”) and alos deleted the zwcfg.xml / multiple restarts, and heals of network. The “ghosts” still appeear in the log. Can it be some device in the network that faultingly contains “neighbour data” from some missing device?..
I would mostly like to restart with a fresh reset, but it seems resetting the USB-stick, uninstalling the ZWave Integration / reinstalling it, and deleting the zwcfg file does not fix it.
How do I completely reset this setup? (do I need to reflash the SD-card for the Raspberry in addition to hard-resetting the USB-stick?)
Can these nodes be normal / something else that I don’t understand?
Any help is welcome