Hello all,
I’m experiancing bad zigbee connectivity and reach out to you, asking for you to help me fixing the problem. Maybe someone of you had a similiar problem.
I’m using a Conbee Stick and got the devices integrated with ZHA, except for the bulbs. Those are running currently on the HUE Gateway.
Question 1: Do I need the hue gateway? I mean, if I would connect every bulb to the zigbee network I would have in each room at least one more repeater. I think they don’t function currently as a repeater as they’re in the seperate hue network, right?
Question 2: Somehow, devices which are close to the conbee stick are unavailable aswell. They’re only 2 metres away. The Stick is hanging freely with a extension on the door frame.
No you don’t. At the moment you have two Zigbee networks and there’s no crossover between them.
Battery-powered devices sometimes report as unavailable after a restart because they only report in at intervals to conserve power, but they should wake as soon as they are triggered - as soon as movement is detected, for example, in a motion sensor.
You may find that things improve if you move the Hue bulbs to the ZHA network - it looks as if you’ll get a much better spread of routers.
The thing about Zigbee is that devices don’t just need “a path” to the coordinator - they need to have a choice of many paths. Routers need to be able to direct each message differently depending on traffic. At the moment it looks as if you have quite a lot of end devices and not many routers.
Also, check that your end devices are known to work with ZHA - there are a lot of buggy ones around.
If you haven’t already looked at them, There are several community guides:
