Hi,
I have just powered up my new Vera and it seems to be running pretty fine.
But I am a bit troubled by what seems to be quite small coverage. I bought two pieces of HomePro ZRP200 to start with and I can barely poll them through one wooden wall and definitely not through two walls.
Is it the ZRP200 that have small coverage or is it the Vera as such?
Do you have any good advice on chow to solve overage?
Should I buy units that claim to reach 50 m, or should I just by a lot of units and use them as repeaters, or are there special repeaters to use.
Many thanks for any advice.
/Mats
I was just reading on Wikipedia about Z-Wave and found this sentence:
“Because the controller is learning the signal strength between the devices during the inclusion process, the devices themselves should be in their intended final location before they are added to the system.”
Is this true also for Vera?
If yes, what does it actually mean? Does Vera adjust its transmission power for each device, depending on the radio link condition for that device?
Does it mean that moving around devices in the house is a problem?
Here is the link to the text:
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Wave]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Wave[/url]
f yes, what does it actually mean? Does Vera adjust its transmission power for each device, depending on the radio link condition for that device? Does it mean that moving around devices in the house is a problem?
The transmission power is always the same. What it means is when you include a node, at that time, the dongle sees what other nodes are in proximity so it can use them as relays for the mesh network. Thus when you move the nodes around the relay route can get messed up. However, every 24 hours Vera “heals” the network by polling all the nodes and keeping track of what nodes can see which and rebuilds the routes. This is shown on the ‘+’ for a device as ‘neighbors’.
I have an Intermatic HA06 that is more than 50m from the Vera base. It also has 4 walls between it.
I do notice it may take a second or two longer to respont to an event compared to others that only have 1 wall in the way. However, it’s responded every time.
