physical location of home centre

[TimShep 0]

hi

Can the home centre be located anywhere in the home as long as has power and is connected to the network ? I am building a house and want to put the home centre in a "plant room" out of sight and out of the way.

 

thanks

Tim

[Guest fat]

Mine is at the back end of the house in a cupboard and it works fine

[Sankotronic 2,370]

3 hours ago, fat said:

Mine is at the back end of the house in a cupboard and it works fine

It is wireless system so position is dictated with your plan of what you will automate and where in the house and outside the house you will have z-wave modules and what obstacles will be between HC and them. It depends also how many signal repeating modules (smart plugs, relay, roller shutter) you will have and their positions. Read about z-wave and how it operates, what are disadvantages and on what you have pay attention and you will make it right.

 

My HC2 is in the living room since that was the best position to properly build my z-wave network. It has beautiful aluminum case and looks really nice besides other technical stuff like that ugly black set top box. 

[emielstroeve 22]

Mine was always in the ' Datacenter', as I call it. Basically it's the very small room near the frontdoor where the power/gas/water enters the house. Biggest issue was the zwave network, there were a lot of obstacles between HC2 and the modules. At some point the zwave network got completely corrupted and ended in a compleet new installation of HC2. If zwave coverage was the only problem was nog clear. 

Now it stays in the center of the house, 1st floor and zwave is extremely stable. 

[petergebruers 1,268]

What the others said. Plus this "rule of thumb". For an average home: start with at least 3 mains powered modules 3-10 meters from your HC2, spread around the range you want to cover. Those modules extend the direct range of your HC2. Then add battery operated devices. Then add devices farther away. If you want to start with one sensor (often motion or door sensor) and one light, you might end up with a worst case scenario: both devices far away from HC2, and nothing in between. To give you an idea: I live in a small house, and almost all devices work *without* repeaters. But... two devices, in the garden shed, do not have a direct wireless connection. So they use one of the modules at about half that distance, to relay messages. If I had started with only those two devices, I would have been disappointed.