Z-Wave Route Debugging

[IcyMidnight]

I have a trio of Aeotec ZW121 LED strips installed behind a mirror at the edge of my apartment.

I’m having a ton of trouble getting them to quickly and reliably respond to commands from Home Assistant. I think maybe the messages are taking a bad route to the root node. If I use my Aeotec Wallmote the strips respond quite promptly, but when triggered from an automation in HA I see lots of retransmits and errors, and sometimes the strips just don’t respond at all.

1. Is there a traceroute-like tool for the z-wave network? Can I see the route that the messages are taking?
2. Can I manually specify the neightbour to use? I have tried sticking another wired node with a much better line-of-sight into the area, but that hasn’t seemed to help with reliability so I assume that node isn’t being used as a relay. (I have done a bunch of network heals to no great effect)

[finity]

@IcyMidnight

Is there a traceroute-like tool for the z-wave network? Can I see the route that the messages are taking?

Z-Wave graph (without the python)

Hi folks. If this is considered bad etiquette, please feel free to kill post. I really liked having the ZWave Graph that @OmenWild had setup, but when I moved my setup to docker last week (hey, I was on vacation and felt the itch to change something). I didn’t feel like trying to figure out why it had broken, and hadn’t liked the external python script method anyway (personal preference, just more things to break). So I satisfied multiple itches at once, and converted what he had written to a …

[IcyMidnight]

Thanks. I have see the graphing stuff around and I do want to get that set up, but AIUI this just visualizes the node’s neighbour lists and doesn’t actually show which routes are taken for any particular message, right?

[finity]

@IcyMidnight

doesn’t actual show which routes are taken for any particular message

Yes, that’s probably true.

I don’t know of any way to get the route but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.