Fibaro smokesensor routing

[DeNnZ 0]

Hi all,

I have a question about the routing of the Fibaro smoke sensors.

When installing the sensors, I add them to my HC2 and the lights go green steady when doing the range test.

But whenever I place a smoke sensor in it's place it will no longer find a direct connection to the HC2. Also no routed connection (steady yellow LED) will be established even if I put another smoke sensor in between the two.

So I have some questions;

A: Do the smoke sensors work as "routers/node" too? or can't they form a network of sensors?

I.E. 1 smoke sensor is out of range (red LED), can you make it go into routed mode by placing

a directly connected smoke sensor in between or do I need a Fibaro power plug to acts as a

router for example?

B: What is the range of the sensors? I am having lots of connection problems, even if a sensor is

on the first floor with no direct walls between HC2 and sensory (only concrete ceiling).

only 1 of my 5 sensors can get a connection, this one is place 1 meter above the HC2.

Does anyone know a fix for this?

And another question about the devices added within the HC2 itself;

Is it possible to add virtual devices to, for example, the "Blinds" list? I have Somfy blinds which are controlled via a Homewizard. I added those to my virtual devices and they work like a charm. But to make things complete it would be awesome to be able to add VD to other appropriate systems..

Kind regards,

Dennis

[j.nowacki 5]

Hi DeNnZ, when smoke sensors are powered by battery they can not route signal from one sensor to another, just like all battery devices they spend most of the time in a "sleep" mode. Range of Z-wave is up to 30m in open field, but inside buildings it drops significantly and depends on a materials used in a house. Please add some non-battery devices to increase range.

Unfortunately in current version of firmware virtual devices don't have types. But of course we will consider your suggestions in next updates.

[Dalle1985 16]

Have you tried updating the network with the sensor in place? As I understand it, the mesh won't auto update if you move a device.

Try creating a lua scene with just this one line of code:

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Then save the scene and hit Start. Don't stop the scene again, just let it run.

This should update your entire routing table and hopefully find a route for your smoke detector if you have any routing devices inbetween. You need a little patience though as the routing will only be fully updated once all sleeping nodes have been through at least one wake up.