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At what point should i look at putting zigbee devices on a secondary zigbee network?  I am running 30+ zigbee devices on a HC800.  I also have a HC 250 and 200B in my project.  would it be beneficial to place some devices on these other controllers?  Or is the 30+ devices on the HC800 just fine.  Just looking to get the best proformace out of my hardware and system.  Thanks

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Depends how big ur home is and how the devices are spread out.....also depends on where ur controllers are located.....really depends on how it's laid out

For example...if u had 20 devices on 1 side of ur home and 10 on the complete opposite side near another controller it may be a more efficient to tie those devices to that controller

Are you having zigbee issues or something?

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Technical limit of 150 devices off the top of my head, though I start considering separation at a 100 for performance enhancement. Layout and spread of devices as 'zilla mentioned is far more important of a factor in this then number.

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I am not having any proformance issues.  I was just curious if at some point i need to consider possibily moving some switches over.  I have several devices in the garage which is about 40 feet away from the antenna, and i do notice some lag in those switches.  I have been thinking about adding a controller out there and placing those switches on that mesh to improve their proformance. 

 

Thanks for the information!!

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40' out from an 800 may or may not be a problem.  Like others here have said, it depends on on your specific dwelling.  Rather than trying to guess your way to a solution, get your dealer to run a "Received Signal Strength" test.  I've got stuff one foot from a 250 ZAP that shows "Noisy"...

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Hi All - I just wanted to mention that in our installations we use the Perytons Sniffer (thsy support several dongles as front-ends and we are quite happy with its features...) - www.perytons.com.

Among others, they allow to initially identify noisy channels (either just noice on the 2.4GHz band or existing 802.15.4 based activity) and then to actually capture and analyze the ZigBee data - including an autodiscoery of the Network devices, topology and alike.

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I have 60 devices on my Zigbee network with 7 of then being Kwikset locks. The network has crashed a couple of times going completely offline this past week. Had to reboot to connect twice and third time today it came up on its own. I was thinking I had too many devices on my HC-800 but this sounds like maybe something else.

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That's what I thought and then was reading about different firmware on the kwiksets. One of my kwikset locks is on 02.00.04 and the rest firmware is the next lower version 01.08.13. This didn't start happening until after I added the last lock so wondering it was tied together.

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If the HC200 is setup as a fully seperate zigbee server and zap coordinator, devices will need to be re-identified - select the appropriate controller in the dropdown menu in the ID window.

 

If you're putting it in as 'just' a ZAP no further work is required. BUT, often overlooked is that a ZAP NEEDS to be able to communicate to the ZAPcoordinator OVER ZIGBEE to work (it can do this with hops like lights etc can).

Once established it works as a full ZAP but on initialisation and every once in a while it needs to connect via ZigBee itself.

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C4 makes a kit for this and it's fairly inexpensive. Just ask your dealer

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As I mentioned...

 

No you can't use a wifi antenna kit and ASSUME it works - it might, bt really, just get the kit C4 has for this - if it's even needed at all.

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