The non repeating devices are hue motion sensors and two switches
I’m living in a 3 floor house. The conbee is in the first floor.
The section without number are the stairs.
Mostly from connection lost effected are the devices in the Livingroom (Wohnzimmer…).
The 2nd floor not that often but it happens and the first floor as well as kitchen and garden is rock solid.
Ok, it’s hard to find exactly which devices are the ones that cause the problems. But you can at least see from the colors of the wires that there are some bad connections out there. Green is good, yellow is might miss a few messages now and then, red is missing more then getting any… So I would really zoom in on your map, move some good things aside and take a look at the ones with the red wires connected to them and see if they “choose” the best possible connection. If you think there is a better connection through another device nearby you might want to disconnect the device and reconnect to see if it “chooses” another route.
Ok @frits1980 , thanks for your help.
The red connections shouldn’t be a proplem as long as the affected device has enough green connections to other devices, even to the conbee stick, right? I assumed these red connections as not that important. Some of them are quite logical due to the distance, some others not, but as I stated before: As long as there are enough good ones…
The real phenomen is, that, mostly in the living room and in the evening, one of these bulbs suddenly lost all connections. And it is always another bulb affected, not always the same. That’s what confusing me.
I just realized something. In the evening you are most likely there with you phone and maybe you’re not alone. Bluetooth and wifi can interfere with Zigbee. It could be a phone (or more then one) or some other device that wakes up from sleep is making just enough interference for the lights to drop off.
Yes, if enough green wires are in place that should make up for the red ones. You could make sure it stays that way (and even check for interference at the same time) to make a screen recording of VNC when you go and do your normal evening routine in the livingroom. See if there are any devices that get more red wires during that time.
Good tip. I will track our behavior. You’re right. We have some phones with active bluetooth which go online in the evening. Our tablets are all wlan connected without active bluetooth.
I would like to ditch the Hue hub and move all to deconz. Problem is I have six Phillips dimmers and haven’t found a way/crib sheet/ document to show the config of these devices I just need one example to finally kick the hub into the ditch and build a bigger mesh. Any help would be most greatly appreciated
Not sure what you want to do with the dimmers, but I have mine set up in deCONZ and for dimming I use this AppDaemon app which can be installed through HACS
That’s expected behaviour. Stateless switches only have events and not entities. In the developer tools, select the events tab, and subscribe to the deconz events.
When you press the dimmer button, you’ll see the event come through.
many thanks to you both, that a heap ton of help, i was on the track sort of but now fully got it and the event listening thing although mine doesn’t show up in the list of available events… so i did what you said and just typed the deconz_event in the start listening line and boom… events a plenty…
Will i ever see it in the available events or does it not matter as long as the events are coming in to HA?
I’ve succefully installed deConz add-On on HA 0.109.2 and all entities works on the local HA.
HA is installed in a Virtualbox machine.
Now I’m trying to access deConz from my main HA instance on RP3b+.
I’ve changed Network Host port to 41850 on the deConz configuration. So in my main HA I’ve added manually (via GUI) deConz integration setting the ip address of the HA that hosts deConz and port 41850 instead of 80.
The weird thing is that it finds deConz, it adds all devices and entities but all entities are set to “unavailable”
I’ve tried deleting the integration, then re-adding it having to press the “authenticate” button on the WebApp to generate the API key but these errors persist. Within Node-Red it’s working perfectly. Node-Red has it’s own API key I created. I can generate one manually for HA but I don’t know where I need to add it.