Tell me what you felt where lacking with the deConz integration
I’ve not used zigbee2mqtt, I’ve certainly not used the xiaomi integration as I have a right old mix of devices from different suppliers.
I can say, that with the mix, I find deconz and the integration general very stable and very quick. However, once every three months or so, it seems to decide to stop speaking to one or more battery devices and I have to fiddle about a bit to get them recognised again (removing batteries, and in extreme cases repairing).
Ikea smart plugs do work with Deconz.
I’m back!
So, I took the plunge and went with Deconz as suggested. Got it all up and running, even along with Zwave. Managed to add the IKEA Smart Plugs to act as range extenders, and then sucessfully added two motion sensors. I thought I had it cracked and was ready to move all sensors over… then an issue. They aren’t getting updated. One of the sensors thats right by the Conbee isnt updating at all pretty much. Motion triggers lights to turn on and off so I need almost instant polling like I had with Xiaomi.
Any ideas?
I dont know if it makes a difference, but I am also getting this error repeated: 19-10-19 17:39:32 WARNING (MainThread) [hassio.api.security] No API token provided for /api/config
I assume though that as the devices are picked up in HA it isnt the main issue?
Not updating in hass or deconz?
Both, thats the bit thats even more puzzling 
P.s - I started a new topic as I didnt know if I should or not (this is an issue not advice not), should I delete this one?
I put two error logs that may help in the other post:
Start by verifying that deconz have connection with your ardware. Check that hardware fw is reported in deconz
That’s all fine
The wierdest bit was the it was pulling a temperature value in for the motion sensors
They do report temperature in the config Dictionary
So is there an option to change how often it polls? If not, that isnt my issue…
Should I be creating a security token/key? If so how?
Otherwise what else could it be? As I say, it pulls the initial device in to HA, but no update after that
There is no option to configure polling. If you have issues between hardware and deconz I suggest you create an issue on deconz GitHub
Thank you for all your help.
I’ve deleted all devices, and readded the two motion sensors and now its all miraculaously working again. I’m slightly cautious about reliability but I’ll add some more, do a few reboots and see where we are.
Do you have any idea about the two error codes in the other code - first one about the API issue, and the second about button maps?
Sorry to ask again… I think I may have some more insight…
So, just added the third motion sensor and rebooted Hassio
Under HA and Photocon all devices showing up, but same issue, none of their states are updated at all, so back to the same issue…
BUT
Logged in via VNC, and the devices have disappeared?! They were there, because I was logged in via VNC before the reboot and they were all showing in the MESH, but after a reboot, all gone.
Sounds like that could be something gone wrong with the pairing. Better to ask on deCONZ GitHub to know for sure
I think maybe I was just expecting too much - I think when I do a reboot of the Pi it’s taking 30 mins to an hour for all the devices to come back online, once back they’re fine again. I need to get used to restarting HA not rebooting the Pi as I’ve done before.
The only issue I seem to have now is Deconz will recognise by square Aqua door sensors, but not the round Xiaomi ones. I think it’s still showing them in the VNC view, but they aren’t added in Phoscon, and then therefore aren’t taken in to HA
Even if they’re not visible in phoscon they might still get exposed to hass
I found the setup cumbersome, it’s not as “plug-n-play” as Z2M. also DeCONZ feels like its a tool that works in it’s own environment, all the “extra’s” (mqtt/hass/domoticz) are additions someone build on top of DeCONZ therefor I feel that this does not 100% work… as mentioned stuff would disappear and the app only has a limited number of device types (plug were shown as bulbs)
Since DeCONZ is still pretty young this will all likely be addressed in the future but for now I don’t trust it enough to be used in a production environment, i’ll stick with homey for now and possibly upgrade to the pro version for the extra cpu&ram…