Z-Wave reliability issues

[adamderuwe]

I’ve been using HA for over a year. I’ve had reliability issues with z-wave from day 1. I’ve done a couple fresh installs of ubutnu and HA to try and fix it. This hasn’t ever made any difference. What am I doing wrong?

I’m using an Aeotec Gen5 z-stick with GE switches. Some of my switches are rock solid, some of the switch states don’t update in HA, and others end up in a failed state and the only fix is to unpair/repair. Any ideas?

I’m using OpenZwave 1.4.2508.

[jwelter (John Welter)]

I had one switch that was doing similar and it ended up being a neutral line that was intermittent. It caused the switch to go on/offline and cause all sorts of issues. Once that was fixed a lot of other little things cleared up too…

Check your neutrals

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

Also this thread - though rather long - may be of some help.

Z-Stick and GE devices manual state changes

I have a Aeon Z-stick gen 5 running on a raspberry pi v3 and my ge z-wave devices (12722, 12724 and 12720) are not updating their state when switched manually / locally. I can change the state of the devices via scenes and automations. Their states eventually get updated by polling but using them as triggers in automations do not work (I have a non-load switch where I am trying to turn on hue lamps). I have tried ozwcp and checked the logs and nothing updates or shows when hitting the switch m…

[adamderuwe]

Will do. Was it apparent via the LED in the switch? My LEDs don’t flicker or anything like that.

[adamderuwe]

Thanks. I’ve read that thread extensively and implemented the polling method that is suggested. Didn’t seem to fix the issue, unfortunately.

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

Bummer, I thought it was worth a shot though.

[zarthan]

I have had reliability issues that repeated unpair/pair, reinstall, polling etc. weren’t able to fix. I did have sucess with repotitioning switches, (swaping auxiliary and dimmer in three way setups) and adding zwave bulbs and other non battery devices to fill in and spread the zwave network. At least up to a point, I think more devices the better.