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WAPs causing the problems...
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Post 1 made on Tuesday January 12, 2010 at 20:37
AndyM
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We already know that placing a ZM24 anywhere near a WAP seriously hurts the zigbee performance... with no WAP in the area, the zigbee range is as advertised. The question is, how far is far enough between ZM24 and WAP? It might be several months before I put a WAP into the house.

I just spent the afternoon adding three T2CZ remotes into a system that consisted of several RK3s and a T3VZ. The T3VZ has been in place and working perfectly for the last 6 months or so. The ZM24 is in the basement, about two feet from the theater/house audio equipment. I am able to take the T2CZ remotes to all corners of the house with no drops (not a small house... 4000 sqft plus indoor pool) With the current firmware installed, the zigbee "reconnects" in less than 3 seconds (even after being off for 20+ minutes).

I am going to add a second ZM24 (even if it's just temporary) to the system sometime next week, just so I can get a grasp on setting up a system with more than one.

My point in rambling all this? There is FAR to much negativity flowing around here. This is so that all of you understand that it works great if you set things up properly.
Post 2 made on Wednesday January 13, 2010 at 07:31
dinom
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I agree.

I just started playing with a T3-Vz and XP-8 in my house, and the integration with my Onkyo receiver is great. The volume feedback and tracking is working great (I didn't use the popup since T3-V screen is large enough to show volume graph all the time). Reconnect time is between 1 and 3 seconds as Andy says above.

At first I was having problems as the control and feedback from the receiver would stop working after a few button presses on the remote. I realized soon after that I had both the Onkyo and GrafikEye drivers assigned to the same port (Port 1), even though I wasn't using the GrafikEye commands yet. The XP-8 must have tried to assign both drivers to the same port and they were stepping on each other. Once I assigned the GrafikEye driver to Port 2, all was well and rock solid.

So far so good, and I've even got my Linksys wireless router within 4 feet of the ZM-24. Next is to add more features and integrate my GrafikEye controller.

Dino
Post 3 made on Wednesday January 13, 2010 at 09:06
jimstolz76
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I had a WAP about 8 feet from a ZM24 and it worked.  I moved it about 20 feet away and it worked much more responsively than I thought it ever could!

I've got another job where the ZM24 was in the basement with no WAP near it and I could not get the remotes to work reliably when standing 2 floors directly above it.  In our office I have an RM433 and a ZM24 sitting right next to each other and when standing in the theater the 433 T4 works flawlessly and the T3VZ skips commands.  It's still nowhere near the 433 range in my experience.

I'm about to put 2 into a ~6000 sq ft house and I'm very interested to see the range.  I'm going to spend a lot of time with testing and placement and I'll post my findings here.


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