Hi everyone,
A little topic out of despair:
I recently bought the Z-Wave antenna from Nabu Casa (Home Assistant) in order to use Long Range sensors to automate my mailbox, which is too far from my setup to use more common protocols like Zigbee, Matter, or Wi-Fi.
So, I added 3 sensors: a Zooz ZSE18 motion sensor and 2 ZSE41 contact sensors, all advertised as Long Range compatible sensors by the well-known home automation retailer Domadoo.
The problem is that when installing these sensors in Home Assistant via Z-Wave JS, I’m never given the option to choose between a mesh or a long-range installation. All three sensors are automatically integrated as mesh…
So I contacted Domadoo, who explained they had reached out to Zooz, and Zooz replied that the sensors need to be updated to version 2.20 (while the most recent OTA version offered by Z-Wave JS is only 2.10).
I went ahead and downloaded the updates from the Zooz website, unpaired the sensors, re-paired them, but still — no option to choose between LR or mesh…
Has anyone else run into the same problem? Does anyone know where this issue might come from?
For context, I’m based in Europe and my sensors are the EU versions.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Here’s my setup:
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zwave-js-ui: 11.2.1
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zwave-js: 15.12.0
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Home Assistant 2025.8.5
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Sensors: FW: v2.20.0 SDK: v7.23.1
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Nabu Casa antennas: FW: 1.1