Who has a large zWave mesh network? Topic is solved

[Draakje]

Hi,
I am looking for some information.

I recently learned that one should not set a report timer on 10 seconds because of network flooding..

So I am wondering what other people have set as 'Meter Report Interval'
I have it now on 60 seconds (with 11 devices)

Thanks in advance!

[delfisastre]

Hello,

I have 49 nodes, and the report interval 60 seconds, and works fine.

RPI 3b+

[commentator]

35 device, no problem with reports

[Draakje]

35 device, no problem with reports

And what is your Report interval setting?

[Egregius]

72 nodes, almost all reports disabled. Who needs them anyway?

[Draakje]

72 nodes, almost all reports disabled. Who needs them anyway?

Ok but how do you do power measurements ?

[Egregius]

What do you want to do with the power measurements? Knowing that the light in the hall costs € 2 a year? I don't care.
There are only 2 power measurements active here. One for the desk of my son because he likes to switch everything on all the time and a second one for a water heater in the kitchen that I use to set the color of my Xiaomi gateway so I can see if the heater is ready or not.
In my opinion all those power reports are useless and only give extra load on the z-wave network and the Domoticz SQLite database.

[Draakje]

What do you want to do with the power measurements? Knowing that the light in the hall costs € 2 a year? I don't care.
There are only 2 power measurements active here. One for the desk of my son because he likes to switch everything on all the time and a second one for a water heater in the kitchen that I use to set the color of my Xiaomi gateway so I can see if the heater is ready or not.
In my opinion all those power reports are useless and only give extra load on the z-wave network and the Domoticz SQLite database.

The whole idea (at least for me) is power measurements. Ofcourse not the lighting. But Wasmachines Dryers Computers fridge TV etc etc
Thats is why I bought these wallplugs .. for switching only I use cheaper Zigbee plugs

[commentator]

35 device, no problem with reports

And what is your Report interval setting?

wasmachine, dryer, airhumidifier all on 30sec
all other plugs on default values

[lost]

The whole idea (at least for me) is power measurements. Ofcourse not the lighting. But Wasmachines Dryers Computers fridge TV etc etc

For this, I have a Qubino Smart-Meter in my main switchboard. Seing curves and knowing any item consumption, I'm almost always able to know which significant device switches on. I can also estimate globally if my energy usage is well distributed hourly (especially when using a 2 rate contract)

[jefft]

I use more the 'usage' than the 'power' metering - that is, get reports of how much power something has used over time. In the few cases where I do log power use as it happens, it's reporting no more than once per minute; I don't need greater precision than that. Also have to keep the message rate under control as I've 87 devices in the network.
I believe the general advice is to avoid having more than one device per second reporting or being polled on the network, for best reliability. Z-wave is very low-bandwidth.