Initial planning zwave in a long home

[boris03 (Boris)]

ZWAVE Plus repeater necessary?

FLiRS allows battery devices to be (reasonably) responsive. Most (ie nearly all) ZWave battery devices sleep for 99%+ of the time - you can’t send them anything in that period. This is fine for sensors, but if you want to open your door, then you don’t want to wait 1 hour till the lock wakes up. A FLiRS device will wake up more often (a number of times per second - depending on the exact implementation). This makes it pretty responsive - a bit of lag, but less than 1 second, and certainly not …