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Onlys main powered Z-wave devices extend range?

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Hi,


as today I understood that every z-wave device will extend the network range. Within the booklet of my newly bought Vision garage sensor they wrote, that battery powered devices don´t extend the network range. Is that true? Then I have very fast to implement a main powered device.


Regards

marcus (German and Englsih)

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Ja, sonst wäre der Stromverbrauch zu hoch und die Batterien wären ständig leer.

Gruß Maik

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Some battery devices will in fact route signals. I have a Vision siren that routes. The battery lasts maybe two months, so I hooked it up with a power supply.

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Greetings,


Any slave node can act as repeater for frames going to other nodes.


The only requirement for being able to act as repeater is that the node is in listening state.

This requires that the node is permanently powered, and in order to limit battery consumption, this means that only mains-powered nodes will act as repeaters in most practical installations.

Battery operated slaves that do not listen continually are disregarded by controllers when they calculate routes.

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