Hello All,
I have been expanding my Z-Wave network in my apartment so far but now I have reached a challenge where I would need help from more experienced folks.
I would like to add motion sensor in my garage. The problem is that this garage is located three floors down from my apartment and therefore Z-Wave network wont reach it due amount concrete in between.
I'm looking for ideas how I could get the garage connected to my current ZW network. So far I have been thinking:
1) route signal through power lines. Problem: garage seems to be different phase (3-phase system) than my apartment and ethernet-over-powerline adapters won't connect at all.
2) Add routing ZW slave in between. Problem: the antenna of this routing slave would need to be outdoors, and sticking out of the external wall in order to get some kind of direct connection to the garage. I could actually attach this to my satellite antenna, however havent been able to find any routing z-wave device with power supply via cable. Obviously I cannot install 230VAC socket to the tip of my satellite antenna just to plug a zwave router
3) some other (possibly more custom) option...
If anyone has ideas how this challenge could be solved it would be very helpful!
Thanks for your thoughts!
I have been expanding my Z-Wave network in my apartment so far but now I have reached a challenge where I would need help from more experienced folks.
I would like to add motion sensor in my garage. The problem is that this garage is located three floors down from my apartment and therefore Z-Wave network wont reach it due amount concrete in between.
I'm looking for ideas how I could get the garage connected to my current ZW network. So far I have been thinking:
1) route signal through power lines. Problem: garage seems to be different phase (3-phase system) than my apartment and ethernet-over-powerline adapters won't connect at all.
2) Add routing ZW slave in between. Problem: the antenna of this routing slave would need to be outdoors, and sticking out of the external wall in order to get some kind of direct connection to the garage. I could actually attach this to my satellite antenna, however havent been able to find any routing z-wave device with power supply via cable. Obviously I cannot install 230VAC socket to the tip of my satellite antenna just to plug a zwave router
3) some other (possibly more custom) option...
If anyone has ideas how this challenge could be solved it would be very helpful!
Thanks for your thoughts!
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