Hey all
is there any way to get a graphical representation of the zwave network topology when using zwave JS ? ZWaveGraphHA looked really nice but doesn’t work with zwave js unfortunately.
Hey all
is there any way to get a graphical representation of the zwave network topology when using zwave JS ? ZWaveGraphHA looked really nice but doesn’t work with zwave js unfortunately.
Having access to that type of view, along with a good management UI was one of the reasons I went with a zwavejs2mqtt server over a zwave-js-server
I may regret to have listened to the hype about zwave JS being the thing to go for…
You can run both, with zwavejs2mqtt acting only as a configuration and management tool.
EDIT: See this: ZwaveJS2Mqtt
That graph is pretty, but really meaningless. It provides practically no useful information or actionable intelligence, and it’s no reason to reconsider the decision to move to zwave_js.
If you play with the options and put your devices into named areas within z2m it can be very useful for visualising what is going on.
Which devices can see which other devices at a certain dB level says nothing about the route that message will take, though, and modern ZW+ devices will reconsider and change routes automatically. The neighbor list used to be only read at time of pairing or following a heal, making the reality often different from the displayed neighbor list or what the graph shows. I believe that the neighbor lists are read more often now, so if each of your nodes has a healthy set of neighbors, that’s pretty much all you need to know. I suppose that the graph might give you some useful info if you have a giant network with nodes that require 3-4 hops (4 is the max for ZWave), but that’s atypical with the range of modern devices and the presence of a robust mesh.