How many devices does Almond+ support?

[btosch]

I'm sorry if I missed this info, but I'm wondering if there is any limit on the number of devices Almond will support beyond the radio spec limits?  How many devices does Securifi test connected to a single Almond?

For example would something like 30 z-wave and 50-60 zigbee devices pose problems beyond the UI becoming sort of unusable?

[mparadis]

As far as I know the only limitations are those on the individual zigbee / z wave modules. I believe that those restrictions are in the hundreds. I don't believe there are any restrictions on that number placed by Securifi. If you have that many sensors I don't envy you searching for the right lamp module half way down the list  .

[LGNilsson]

We've tested with something like 80 Z-Wave devices and I think upwards a 100 ZigBee devices, but we've never tried to test the limit.
Z-Wave is limited to something like 250 devices.

What we do know and what we're working on improving is that there's a slight slowdown once you exceed about a 100 devices, but it still all works and we're continually making improvements to our Z-Wave and ZigBee stacks. It won't be a UI slowdown, as the processor we have is more than capable of handling it, the slowdown would be in getting the data to/from the sensors/devices.

We're going to get some kind of sorting, most likely based on the location done, as we know it'll become unmanageable quite quickly once you go beyond 10-20 sensors/devices as things are.

[mparadis]

I'd agree, I'm only around 20 sensors set up right now but its getting a little difficult to manage.

[btosch]

It would nice to separate controls (devices that you can change) from sensors (devices that just produce dat).  Especially on the touchscreen where I would almost never want to check status, just toggle things.

I'm pretty much assuming I will need to build my own UI at this point.

[brantflick]

Regarding the sorting and things visible on the touchscreen, I think it would be simplest to have a checkbox that toggles visibility on/off.  You could have a second icon for all sensors/devices or just those that aren't on the main screen.

I do hope that eventually the router UI will be customizable to the point that you can set a default screen (i.e. sensor controls), and that things such as order of display and visibility are all customizable.  Perhaps that would end up being a user contributed feature?