Practical use cases: Maximum number of devices

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I know that Vera advertises that you can link up to 232 devices to it. What i am interested in is what the maximum amount of devices one has “actually” installed with Vera and the system is working perfectly without any lag.

The biggest installation I made consists of 55 devices. I am planning for one that consists of 300 devices and 3 Veras.

Anyone would like to share the details of a big installation?

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[quote=“achalhoub, post:1, topic:170826”]I know that Vera advertises that you can link up to 232 devices to it. What i am interested in is what the maximum amount of devices one has “actually” installed with Vera and the system is working perfectly without any lag.

The biggest installation I made consists of 55 devices. I am planning for one that consists of 300 devices and 3 Veras.

Anyone would like to share the details of a big installation?[/quote]

I have about 120 devices with three Vera’s bridged… Seems to work pretty well… A couple of points. If you are using controllers with scenes assigned (like the Leviton zone controllers) scenes need to be local to where the controller is associated. A scene can reference unpn imported devices but cannot be assigned to a controller unless it is local.

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Things that play into it are probably how many scenes and plugins you have, and what they do. As well as the type of Z-Wave devices. If you had a mix of devices that either supported status reporting or are battery operated, there wouldn’t be much polling going on, for example.

I believe @aschwalb made the split in 3 Vera’s because of range issues, and associated lag through multiple hops, not necessarily lag due to a busy system.

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Thank you guys for sharing this!!