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Who has a large zWave mesh network?
Posted: Thursday 28 November 2019 20:14
by 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!
Re: Who has a large zWave mesh network?
Posted: Thursday 28 November 2019 21:23
by delfisastre
Hello,
I have 49 nodes, and the report interval 60 seconds, and works fine.
RPI 3b+
Re: Who has a large zWave mesh network?
Posted: Thursday 28 November 2019 21:38
by commentator
35 device, no problem with reports
Re: Who has a large zWave mesh network?
Posted: Thursday 28 November 2019 21:40
by Draakje
commentator wrote: ↑Thursday 28 November 2019 21:38
35 device, no problem with reports
And what is your Report interval setting?
Re: Who has a large zWave mesh network?
Posted: Thursday 28 November 2019 22:04
by Egregius
72 nodes, almost all reports disabled. Who needs them anyway?
Re: Who has a large zWave mesh network?
Posted: Friday 29 November 2019 11:42
by Draakje
Egregius wrote: ↑Thursday 28 November 2019 22:04
72 nodes, almost all reports disabled. Who needs them anyway?
Ok but how do you do power measurements ?
Re: Who has a large zWave mesh network?
Posted: Friday 29 November 2019 12:57
by 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.
Re: Who has a large zWave mesh network?
Posted: Friday 29 November 2019 13:04
by Draakje
Egregius wrote: ↑Friday 29 November 2019 12:57
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
Re: Who has a large zWave mesh network?
Posted: Friday 29 November 2019 16:57
by commentator
Draakje wrote: ↑Thursday 28 November 2019 21:40
commentator wrote: ↑Thursday 28 November 2019 21:38
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
Re: Who has a large zWave mesh network?
Posted: Friday 29 November 2019 21:13
by lost
Draakje wrote: ↑Friday 29 November 2019 13:04
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)
Re: Who has a large zWave mesh network?
Posted: Wednesday 01 January 2020 9:50
by 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.