#Has anyone figured out Z-wave multicast?

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blazing bluff
covert geyser
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Many people use it

hazy mountain
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@half widget has done this. He provided a link to a script in this WTH that you might consider voting for

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-why-isnt-there-an-easy-to-use-zwave-multicast-for-turning-on-off-lights-and-switches/807901

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WTH why isn't there an easy to use zwave multicast for turning on/o...

Zwave multicast is awesome, however it can be difficult to use. I’m not sure how many people actually use it. It took me quite some time to generate a script that turns on/off lights and switches at the exact same time. The script requires a ton of upkeep because you have to be a wizard in Jinja and you need to understand zwave endpoints. It...

blazing bluff
half widget
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yes it is

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post what you tried and what you did

blazing bluff
# half widget post what you tried and what you did

Basically what I did is take the sample from (oh wow) your script and change it to my entities. I could never get it to save because I got an error with no real details on what it was(I can’t remember off the top of my head). I plan to work on it tonight so I’ll do a full write up to see if it’s me. I know I had a couple of switches that didn’t join securely so I removed them but ran into the same problem. I read at some point that they had to be on the same security setting to do multicast.

covert geyser
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That's true but the Z-Wave driver takes care of segregating devices based on security levels.

half widget
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as a sidebar fresh, I've notice some oddities with multicast after the last release, is there a list of what changed? (outside manually searching)

covert geyser
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release of what? HA?

half widget
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No, ZwaveJS

covert geyser
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compared to what?

half widget
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So basically, when I perform a large multicast now, just about everything hangs for multiple seconds compared to prior to the last release

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I haven't dug into it, planning to next week.

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Just something I've noticed

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I also noticed that HA or ZwaveJS now assumes states after multicasts

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which really fuck up automations if the multicast failed

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Don't worry about it if you don't know of anything off the top of your head

covert geyser
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nothing rings a bell. zjs has long sent optimistic updates, but I haven't used multicast much so not sure about that case.

half widget
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I did create a WTH for HA to provide simple on/off multicast actions

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right now, it's a bit complicated