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Hi, et voila:

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. :wink:

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.

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hi, I am going to buy some new Aqara D1 triple rocker models, will the conbee II support this model soon?

All supported devices are listed here:

Thank you, I read it before. I’m a new Conbee user and I dont know the new Aqara switch could be supported soon or not.

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 :grinning:

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

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Many thanks for the quick reply, I’ve got a problem on this route in that I’ve only got the battery levels as entities (of the two dimmers on Deconz)…

many thanks

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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.

Cheers again, I’m on the tab and the list of available events doesn’t say deconz, do i just “start listening” after typing deconz on the input line?

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Are you on the Deconz discord group by any chance?

Go this topic that I wrote

It describes how to get the dimmers to work the exact same way they work in Hue and you can also see how the syntax is for the events

To see the events to have to type deconz_event and then click start listening. I really wonder why that ui is not a pulldown or autocomplete.

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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?

thanks again…

Found this in the forum, Listen to deconz events

The Poster Oleggold Has An Image Of His Events Tabs Showing Deconz In His Available Events.

The Reason I Ask Is To See If I Have A Problem With My Setup.

Cheers

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It says it has one listener, I think that is if there is a set up consumer of the events, like an automation.

Oh I see, so when I add an automation that’s when I will see a listener… perfect Cheers Robban

I hope this is the right thread.

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”

What am I doing wrong?

Any help is appreciated.
Marco

I’ve suddenly started getting something similar since updating the plugin a few days ago. I keep getting these errors in the logs.

2020-05-02 16:53:26 ERROR (MainThread) [pydeconz.websocket] Client connection error
2020-05-02 16:53:26 DEBUG (MainThread) [pydeconz.websocket] Websocket starting
2020-05-02 16:53:26 DEBUG (MainThread) [pydeconz.websocket] Reconnecting to deCONZ in 15.

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.