Hi everyone,
I wanted to give a bit more information about the zwave stability improvements we have done on the latest FW update.
- Control of Set command
When you had meshbots with several zwave device actions, some actions did not get executed properly.
We were just sending the set command and forget about it being executed on device. We were relying on zwave libraries to handle that. Unfortunately it created problems since there may be lost or jammed signals.
Fix:
We repeat the command when necessary. we manually check if ACK response comes back (confirm message is received by device) If the ACK is not received, we retry it 3 times if still not received then this node will be marked as unreachable. Then it goes to a suspended state of 1 hour. (Messages won’t be send to same node until it becomes reachable again)
- Meshbot Execution
When you use the default execution plan in Meshbot actions (sequential) , a set command which was being tried to send to an unreachable device took almost 30 sec or more since it was trying all possible mesh routes to reach the device. And it was blocking execution.
Fix:
We added prevention of sending message to unreachable nodes too often.
If it is unreachable we block sending messages to this device from everywhere for x hour (1 hour). It will still be tried every 1 hours until it becomes reachable. And this retry mechanism won’t block meshbot execution.
- Periodic Reconstruct
Everyday at 3am. we are performing an automatic reconstruct of zwave network. Reconstruct means finding out shortest ways to each node on the network considering unreachable nodes. So it will allow faster execution of set commands to devices.
So if there are still customers who did not upgraded to latest version (2.0.44.2279.11) then we strongly recommend upgrading and then let us know if you see improvements or let us know any feedback on the topic.
Best regards.