Wifi lathe and plaster walls2/29/2024 ![]() That is, you are going to need to bounce the signal out through doorways or windows rather than trying to get through the walls. It’s likely that you are going to have to approach this The same way that someone who has Adobe or cement walls does. For complex technical reasons, zigbee may do a little better than zwave, which is probably what you’re seeing. And the remaining pipes in the wall just add to the problem. Makes it almost impossible to get signal through. Any one have any ideas?Īlmost certainly the plaster walls have what is called “lathing” inside them, which is chicken wire basically. She is going to see about getting more of the GE plugin modules, to see if we increase the density it will help. ![]() The Zigbee devices have no issues so far, it is just zwave. We est it is about 5 feet from the hub on the first floor to the plug on the second floor, and we still have issue. I move the GE plug in to an outlet on the second floor that is ALMOST directly on top of the area the hub is in. The GE plug in module stops responding, the GE switch that did pair stops responding. I move one of the iris plugs to the second floor, run e zwave repair, and all devices fail. It did respond when I did the general exclusion to get it off the old hub. But I cannot the the other GE switch to pair up. BAM!! that GE switch paired up!! I think things are going well. I move the GE module to the second floor, half way between the hub and the outside light that we want to control. At this point I am hopeful, that the old hub was bad and that was our issue. One of the Iris modules connects right up on the zwave side. New hub, in place, The GE plug in module connects right up. (side bar, she got her V2 hub nov of 2015, it sat in a box for a year before she got around to proceeding with this project). We move the irus plugs into the same room as the hub, and still cannot get it to run a zwave repair without failing. a zwave repair says every device fails to update. I can’t get the zwave side of the iris plugs to respond. At this point I cannot get the GE plug in module to connect. So the hub is about 7 feet up in a room with 10 foot ceilings. At this point my friend had moved the hub to the first floor, and placed it on top of a china cabinet that is as close to center of the house as we could get. ![]() I bring a GE Zwave plug in module that I had been using at my home over the holidays. And the 1 GE that connected kept falling off.įast FWD 2 weeks, and we work on it again. ![]() Looking at the logs, the zwave sides never connected again after the inital connect. The Zwave sides were all kinds of fits, but finally got them to connect. We got the zigbee sides of the Iris plugs to work quickly and without issue. We started with the Hub, 2 of the iris Zigbee/zwave plug-in adapters, and 2 GE in wall z-wave switches. And I am guessing some of the lairs of paint are lead. It was built without electric, I think most of the old gas lines are still in the walls. Seems pretty simple right? Well the home is ~120 years old.
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