So several weeks ago I put my first Z-Wave modules in, setup my Homeseer software and began my lighting automation. This all went very well at first, a few strange things were happening, but it was very new so I was willing to work with it a bit. After a couple of weeks I started wondering if I had chosen the right technology. I had a 15 node network and I was having a hard time communicating with almost half of the nodes. When Homeseer was running its nightly optimizations (This is a process where the controlling software instructs each node in the Z-Wave network to re discover all of its neighbors in order to strengthen the network and make sure everything in communicating properly) I was only seeing success on 60% of my nodes some nights and 90% on others. Very random, then one afternoon while I was forum ranting about this someone asked if I had any baby monitors running as they can sometimes cause some issues. Click, the light went on. I ran in my son's room, turned off his monitor and ran 4 optimizations in a row. 100% success and each device in the network was seeing at least 80% of the others. I turned the monitor on and played with the Channel on it a bit and got it to where every node in the house communicated properly except the node directly under his monitor.
The moral of this story? Sometimes little stupid things can cause more headaches than the major ones. Anyone who says don't sweat the small stuff has never been bitten by the small stuff!
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