As for your problem with the far node, you think manual routing would be a solution?
Manual routing sounded promising Henk, but......
Here's what I did:
1. Battery-dongled my Vera 2 and took it to the 3-in-1 in the garage.
2. Exclude / Include the device in place with all valid Neighbors.
3. Re-start the Vera in my house, old device is gone, new device appears.
4. Used Configure Node Now in Dashboard, Vera gets info and creates 3 more devices (temperature, light, motion), so obviously can talk to the device at the working distance.
5. Checked the main device Variables = no Neighbors, no routing info, manufacturer is "Ryhert Industries"?? instead of "Express 3-in-1"
6. Did a Heal = all 3-in-1's gone, as usual.
7. Set checkbox for "Let MiOS configure..." whatever to force a nightly heal. No report in the morning, some 3-in-1's back online, and the checkbox has dissappeared from the Z-Wave Repair tab(??). MCV must be working overtime...
This morning decided to try your Manual Route (note that AutoRoute variable not there) and entered "hop" nodes for best routing as suggested.
Tried "Configure Node Now" and get "Node not Configured" every time (*very* helpful, ...not)
Tried "refresh local data" icon on top of dashboard and now all but one 3-in-1 have eternal "Waiting for wakeup to configure" messages attached.
(will update this post after longest wakeup time (1/2 hour) has passed)
UPDATE: more than the 1/2 hours has passed - all waiting-for-wakeup devices still waiting...
bob