Battery powered devices do not generally act as repeaters, because it would use up too much battery life. This includes light switches, in wall receptacles, plug in pocket sockets, plug-in sensors, and in wall relays. After you include the extender to your network, run a z wave repair and the lock will go through the extender and no more drop out if the distance is really far you may need 2x extenders or another z wave device between the extender and the hub. Pretty much all mains powered zwave devices Will act as repeaters. I would add your lock directly to the smartthings hub then place it on the door and then plug in the aeotec range extender 7 as close to the lock as possible as the strength of the zwave signal from your lock is weaker than the extender so as close to the lock makes the lock signal to extender strong and the extender has a further throughput and so extender to hub strong. If you want to rectify it you need the aeotec range extender 7, which has S2 security and will pass the locks code through. It is the problem with the aeotec z wave extender, I believe you are using the aeotec range extender 6 or below this will work for most z wave devices as an extender but when you add it to the network for a danalock it cannot pass through the relevant security the lock needs to verify the dsk code of the lock to your smartthings hub. I vaguely recall official support recommending killing that sometimes.
#Z WAVE REPEATER FULL#
I’m just noodling that maybe locks prefer security for certain things? The lock shows up if I push the reset button or operate it manually, so that makes me think it has something to do with RF range and power- maybe the lock isn’t trying to communicate at full power except at certain times, and at lower power it can’t reach the hub?Īlso could “device health” do anything? That’s active. So that’s why my main question is “how can I tel if the repeater is getting used?”Īlso, could this have anything to do with “secure mode” or whatever it’s called? My network is in legacy/normal/insecure mode. This is an open office situation with minimal RF interference, but enough distance that I had some trouble pairing Zigbee wall switches nearby.
I’m going to say it’s reasonable in this case that a repeater could be helpful for RF reasons (as opposed to message queuing).
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