Just recently purchased Homeseer H3 Pro. I have a Vera that I had been using for about a year, but as my z-wave devices started to pile up, it became more and more unstable....lag times, things not operating, etc etc... It seems that under 30 devices it works great, as I got to about 40 it became worse and at my current 75 devices it was just too much for it to handle... What sold me on Homeseer (besides the eventual journey into more in depth automation like voice commands and advancing triggering) was the fact that you could use multiple primary controllers....as another poster put it (i have lurked for a longggg time) 'this is the crown jewel of the Homeseer system'...and I agree....which leads me to my first question....
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using multiple primary Z-trollers vs. using 1 primary Z-troller and a bunch of secondary ones?
I have already rebuilt the system 4 times in the last week just trying to learn and get by all the nuances that come with a new system.... When I had multiple primary controllers, everything worked great as far as stability but I had issues with activating scenes since it would only activate a device that was on that primary controller...I have since learned the work around which everyone else seems to already know as common knowledge which is using homeseer events to trigger devices....
When i switched to 1 primary controller (which I have done twice now), the system is way to unstable...even after multiple optimizations and assigning each device to the closest controller (I have controllers centrally located to cut down on the z-wave routing). I get a lot of errors with device statuses not being found, as well as some lights that won't activate when I run an event. So I think I am going build the network over again lol (no biggie) and go with multiple primary controllers and keep each controller around 30+ devices.
My leviton scene and zone controllers that used to work with vera are pretty much junk with homeseer. I am fed up with them and although I have 10 total, I am going to replace them with either single switches without a load to trigger events or try the Cooper controllers...which leads me to my next question....
Are the cooper controllers reliable as far as activating scenes, led statuses reporting correctly, etc etc...with Homeseer?
I have been having a load of issues with z-wave scenes with HS3...For instance, I cannot get a scene to activate an event, even when manually run through the software...is this because of the leviton controllers?
Also, I cannot get a scene to delete from Homeseer no matter what I do...I click delete through the software and the scene does not delete...is this a bug? Like I said before, I think for the time being (untill i get it figured out), I am going to ditch using scenes and just use the events under homeseer software....
The other issue that I am having is getting HSTouch to connect to Homeseer...I have checked the port settings and IP addresses and they seem to match...trying to get it to connect locally btw, not remotely yet....
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using multiple primary Z-trollers vs. using 1 primary Z-troller and a bunch of secondary ones?
I have already rebuilt the system 4 times in the last week just trying to learn and get by all the nuances that come with a new system.... When I had multiple primary controllers, everything worked great as far as stability but I had issues with activating scenes since it would only activate a device that was on that primary controller...I have since learned the work around which everyone else seems to already know as common knowledge which is using homeseer events to trigger devices....
When i switched to 1 primary controller (which I have done twice now), the system is way to unstable...even after multiple optimizations and assigning each device to the closest controller (I have controllers centrally located to cut down on the z-wave routing). I get a lot of errors with device statuses not being found, as well as some lights that won't activate when I run an event. So I think I am going build the network over again lol (no biggie) and go with multiple primary controllers and keep each controller around 30+ devices.
My leviton scene and zone controllers that used to work with vera are pretty much junk with homeseer. I am fed up with them and although I have 10 total, I am going to replace them with either single switches without a load to trigger events or try the Cooper controllers...which leads me to my next question....
Are the cooper controllers reliable as far as activating scenes, led statuses reporting correctly, etc etc...with Homeseer?
I have been having a load of issues with z-wave scenes with HS3...For instance, I cannot get a scene to activate an event, even when manually run through the software...is this because of the leviton controllers?
Also, I cannot get a scene to delete from Homeseer no matter what I do...I click delete through the software and the scene does not delete...is this a bug? Like I said before, I think for the time being (untill i get it figured out), I am going to ditch using scenes and just use the events under homeseer software....
The other issue that I am having is getting HSTouch to connect to Homeseer...I have checked the port settings and IP addresses and they seem to match...trying to get it to connect locally btw, not remotely yet....
other than trying again. I've had some similar issues with the Aeotec micro switches, where they would not add. I tried about 5 or 6 times and finally they did. Not sure what was wrong and why it did finally work.
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