Just received the usb stick, i swapped it over from my non arial model, all connected fine after a while, but there was a issue with some bulbs not reacting to home assistant on / off button ? this happened before the last time i unpaired and paired my lights due to some network issue.
What i did which worked last time was to repair the non working bulbs back to the hue bridge then deleted them from the hue app, i then paired the bulbs back to zigbee2mqtt and all is working fine.
Now to pair my Aqua thermostat / humidity sensors which also arrived today, these sensors were picked up straight away with the zigbee2mqtt network with no issues.
By the way the signal in the zigbee map looks great with the devices mesh - ing as they should, loads better than before and working like a champ so far, cheers to h4nc for the arial mod and the nicely designed case.
I don’t know if I understand your question right, but the coordinator will be plugged in into your machine running zigbee2mqtt and routers only need to be powered by an usb port. After paring the router you can place in anywhere (within the range of the coord).
Yes, exactly like that. You will have to pair it near your coordinator, like you pair enddevices.
BTW: This might me interesting for other users as well. I lately measured the power consumption (with a cheap power meter, so probably not very accurate) of a CC2531.
After an hour it only used around 12 mAh. So it might be possible to plug it into a powerbank with solarcells and use it somewhere where you don’t have a power socket. Just an idea, did not try it myself.
Also if you have a sensor that always made issues because it was far away and works fine after you put a router in between tells you that it is connected through the router. A sensor in my garden doesn’t work when I disconnect the router between.
I was having quite hard time to get all my zigbee devices to work reliably in my house and garage (bunch of Aqara Temp sensors, door sensors and leak detectors).
My initial setup was just a regular CC2531 (cheapo from ebay) and of course not nearly all of the sensors worked as HASSIO runs from rasp and it is located at corner office of the house.
So I built and added CC2530 routers (3 of them) and same story, cheapo CC2531 didn’t have enough juice even with the additional routers.
I saw this ad and contacted h4nc and ordered one coordinator and one additional router.
h4nc dispatched them the same day and I got them after a week (thanks to Finlands Post office strike).
Both of the devices work and the case looks sleek even though I installed them to non-visible places, but still
Finally all of the sensors are working perfectly in my house. Honestly I don’t know if it is because of the better coordinator or the fact that I added 2 routers to my house (old coordinator and one extra I bought from h4nc) or comibination of both. Don’t know, don’t care
Only thing I don’t understand is that all of the routers (except one) report 0 link quality but the end devices still work fine, I don’t know is it a really an issue.
Anyway great products for great price considering that if you don’t have all the parts to DIY this. Also shipping was way faster than from China (to Finland).
Thank you h4nc!
I have ordered and already received one stick flashed as coordinator and three sticks flashed in router mode. All sticks work flawlessly. The shipping was almost as fast as light. In addition, the contact was very kind and supportive. In conclusion, everything perfect!
