Hello everyone,
One of my fibaro sensors FIB_FGMS-001 is proberbly to far away from the Vera controller and it disconnect after including.
When looking in the advanced settings under the Commands tab I see the option to set the “controlled via” option.
If I set this to a sensor in between the Vera and the sensor the Vera says “changing the parent of a device may brick yor vera, are you sure”
Is this a problem for the controller or not?
I was thinking that you only set the parent for the device and not the controller.
Is this the way to relay the Zwave signal via an other zwave device or not?
Maurice
[quote=“Totalremote, post:1, topic:191250”]When looking in the advanced settings under the Commands tab I see the option to set the “controlled via” option.
If I set this to a sensor in between the Vera and the sensor the Vera says “changing the parent of a device may brick yor vera, are you sure”
Is this a problem for the controller or not?[/quote]
The “controlled by” attribute determines the master device that handles the back-end communications for a device…
For natively supported devices, this attribute will point to the Vera’s Z-Wave (or ZigBee or Bluetooth) device… For devices that are created by a plugin, it will point to the device that runs the plugin.
Changing this attribute most definitely CAN brick your Vera… DON"T CHANGE THIS ATTRIBUTE… In the best case scenario, your device will no longer work…
Your particular problem… A sensor out of range of the Vera but in range of another sensor… The best course of action is to install a wired device (or a repeater) near the intermediate sensor… Sensors are usually battery operated, and battery operated devices do not act as repeaters. A wired device, such as a plug-in lamp dimmer or in-wall dimmer, will act as a repeater and extend your network to allow the out-of-range sensor to work.
Thanks for the heads up.
I will stay far away from the “controllerd via” settings 
In my case a repeater will be the sollution then.
Many thanks