Several Z-Wave issues/questions with different devices

[Plantje]

I have a combination of Z-Wave and 433Mhz stuff at home and some of the Z-Wave stuff is acting up...

• I had an issue with a lot of time outs on my Aeotec multi sensor. Someone mentioned I should disable polling, so I did and now the time outs for the multi sensors are gone. However, the multi sensors seem to "hang" every now and then. When I enter a room it can take quite a while before movement is detected and the lights are switched on. Sometimes movement isn't detected at all. And through the "on time" I have configured the lights to be on for about 15 minutes. At times it remains stuck in "movement = on" whereas no one has been in a room and there was no movement for hours. Resetting the Domoticz server helps. Sometimes it also helps to enable polling and disable it again. What can be wrong here?
• The multi sensors seem very slow sometimes when registering movement. Would that be something wrong with the multi sensors? Or would perhaps a faster Domoticz server solve an issue like that? Close to these multi sensors are other Z-Wave devices that have no issues communicating with the Domoticz server
• I have a second Greenwave power strip with 6 outlets. The first powerstrip I bought one shows usage data per outlet; this "new" one doesn't show it per outlet. What can I do to trigger that for this one as well? Or are there different power strips and perhaps this one doesn't support it?
• I have some Fibaro smoke detectors. Some of them beep every now and then. The one that was beeping has a "last seen time" of the temperature sensor of 2018-06-09 01:44:55. Other smoke detectors have a more recent (today) last seen time for the temperature sensor. The temperature sensor seems the most consistent in connecting every now and then. How can I get the smoke detector that is beeping connected again? I fiddled around with the connection button a little bit and now it doesn't beep anymore, but it doesn't show as recently seen in Domoticz either. The smoke detector that seems lost is not far away from my Domoticz server. Close to it are devices that communicate perfectly well with Domoticz.
• How can I test a Fibaro smoke sensor without setting my house on fire? I know there is a self test option with the button, but I would like to know if it actually works.

Any help in trouble shooting these issues is really appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

[Plantje]

One down....
I think while fiddling with the smoke detector I either excluded it or did a reset. I just read the manual and added it again to the network.

[Egregius]

First, never enable polling on a battery powered device.
Second, always read the manual. Each manual starts with 'Read the manual before installing'...
Search the smoke detector that beeps and look at the light color when it does, that'll explain why it's beeping. Could be low battery or lack of z-wave network.
For the greenwave, are the power meters generated as devices? Do you have 'accept new hardware' enabled? Could be that you need to enable polling for this one.
But, think about if you really need the power measurements. They cost a lot of network traffic on the slow zwave network.

[Plantje]

It has been a while since I posted these questions.

The issue with the 6 power strip from Greenwave has been solved as well. Someone who was selling one suggested removing it and adding it again. This time I added it with devices connected and using power. Next to that I set Domoticz to allow new devices for 5 minutes.
The power meters were indeed not generated as devices. Polling is always enabled for all of my power nodes.

For the smoke detector it was the battery. I had set the device to not polling and therefore the battery indication was not sent to Domoticz. Next to that I updated the interval to provide a low battery alarm on all smoke detectors to be sent every 10 minutes. By default this is the same as the interval for lacking Z-Wave range.
In the mean time I have read the manual and updated my own documentation.

Questions still left:

• Multi sensor that stays on even though there is no movement for hours (or the other way around). As said: can be "fixed" with a reboot of the Domoticz server. The other way to fix it is by enabling polling for a while on the sensor. After it has been changed I can disable polling again.
• How to test a Fibaro smoke sensor.

All help is appreciated.