Zwave plus UPDATE

[Guest Lode]

I bought a Fibaro motion sensor zwave plus. (looks very cool btw

I tought your controller has to support that protocol.

By trying out that sensor i saw a big improvement in range.

None of my devices are reaching that far as the motionsensor does.

I tried it out and they all fail to connect to HC but this motionsensor zwaveplus works like a charm at that distance.

 

I've been reading an article from mr. @T.Konopka about the difference between zwaveplus and next Gen5 zwavechip.

 

So..what is the truth behind this ?

 

UPDATE !!

 

So to be sure about this today i bought a zwaveplus wall plug and yes also here a big improvement in range....covers my whole house

Happy !!

 

I got a feeling that i'm telling here the same as WWII is over ??  Am I ?

 

Edited January 7, 2017 by Lode

[Gongari 0]

Haha, some kind of. 

I had the same problem, but I was trying to connect Z-Wave sensor to the Raspberry PI controller. The solution was in using 

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 platform. Correct drivers provided by this framework solved the issue with a small range.  So in your case, platform update might also become a solution.