Advice on Zigbee range extending

FYI, some Zigbee router devices, Centralite, including those General Electrics, Iris, Ledvance / OSRAM / Sylvania, PEQ, Securify, SmartThings are known to not route Xiaomi/Aqara devices, and vice versa.

Better router results can be achieved by using IKEA, Nue/3A Home, (some OSRAM/Sylvania), XBee series 2 and 3, and CC2530 or CC2531 with router firmware.

Best tip on a simple Zigbee router device is again the often mentioned IKEA Trådfri Signal Repeater

Note! IKEA sells different “Tradfri Signal Repeater” models around the world to match local power-plug.

Another tip there is SONOFF BASIC ZBR3 as that has a CC2530 SoC/MCU with router firmware, but note BASICZBR3 runs a Zigbee Home Automation 1.2 stack so might not route all Zigbee 3.x devices.

And an additional tip is the SONOFF S31 Lite Zb which has the same type of CC2530 chip inside it

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