Just to follow up, I did the Zigbee routers based on CC2531 USBs and they work great. I think - they show up OK but not sure if they are improving my mesh
Their range is a lot less than the conbee, but I mine are relatively near to other routers (lights) so they seem to help with the blind spots in-between if you see what I mean
Sure, is there any way to see if they are working ? Is it possible to view the mesh in Phoscon or some other way ?
Yes with marthoc deconz addon 
Does the add on only work with hass.io or will it work with Home Assistant in virtenv?
My Conbee is on a standalone Pi separate from my HA system
Can i just swap from the official one to the marthoc one ?
Yes Backup your Conbee Install marthoc and Import
Thanks, swapped over successfully with no issues, VNC working fine
Just an update of my experience with DeCONZ. I started out with the Marthoc addon in Hassio on a pi. My experience was a bit mixed, with Hue working most of the time - expect dimmers, Trådfri was very unreliable and then my Xiaomi door/window sensors was useless. Then my pi crashed and I moved to a laptop I had in spare, did the Hassio installation and restored the snaphot from the pi, and now it has worked 100% reliable for all my components in over 1 month. I still don’t know why it works as it is the same snapshot I used on the pi and the conbee stick has just been unplugged from the pi and plugged in the laptop, but I am now very pleased with it. Might be that the Z-wave and Conbee dongle now is seperated on each side of the laptop, but since they are on different frequencies I guess that is not the case.
Many users experience an improvement of reliability when they put the conbee on an extension cord
1 Like
It is possible to show the battery level of Philips Hue Motion Sensor?
It is a part of the attributes of the entity
Ok but its not possible to show it on a graph in the History page?
Hi
If you create a template sensor from then attribute, the you would get a history graph
Thanks
mb
Did the pi have the Bluetooth on?
Yes I did have that turned on.
That shouldn’t affect conbee. Only raspbee
Bluetooth WiFi and Zigbee all share the same spectrum, there can be interferences between them
I can confirm that moving to faster hardware solved some issues with Xiaomi. Before I had issues with presence detection. Now it works way smoother. (I migrated from Atom N2600 to i3-8100T).
1 Like
Got a question, trying to find what could be happening here:
I have some Aqara single and double switches. With deCONZ, I can decouple the buttons (deactivate the relay) to use them as wireless and I already do that on some of them. No idea why but this doesn’t work at all to the double switches but it’s been working fine on the single ones.
I installed a new single switch which has the exact same sw version/date as the other single ones I have but on this one I am able to decouple it but it’s not switching the light which is the same behaviour as the others.
First one (Single Bedroom Switch) is the new one (not working) and the Office_Switch is the old one (working):
2019-05-11 17:59:40 DEBUG (MainThread) [pydeconz.deconzdevice] Single_Bedroom _Switch: update lastupdated with 2019-05-11T16:59:40
2019-05-11 17:59:40 DEBUG (MainThread) [pydeconz.websocket] Websocket data: {"e":"changed","id":"66","r":"sensors","state":{"buttonevent":1002,"lastupdated":"2019-05-11T16:59:40"},"t":"event","uniqueid":"00:15:8d:00:02:e2:7e:48-05-0012"}
2019-05-11 17:59:49 DEBUG (MainThread) [pydeconz.deconzdevice] Office_Switch: update lastupdated with 2019-05-11T16:59:49
2019-05-11 17:59:49 DEBUG (MainThread) [pydeconz.websocket] Websocket data: {"e":"changed","id":"59","r":"sensors","state":{"buttonevent":1002,"lastupdated":"2019-05-11T16:59:49"},"t":"event","uniqueid":"00:15:8d:00:03:11:ac:c1-05-0012"}
2019-05-11 17:59:49 DEBUG (MainThread) [pydeconz.utils] Sending {'data': '{"on": true}'} to http://192.168.2.165:8091/api/B942B00E68/lights/13/state
2019-05-11 17:59:49 DEBUG (MainThread) [pydeconz.utils] HTTP request response: [{'success': {'/lights/13/state/on': True}}]
2019-05-11 17:59:49 DEBUG (MainThread) [pydeconz.deconzdevice] Office: update on with True
2019-05-11 17:59:49 DEBUG (MainThread) [pydeconz.websocket] Websocket data: {"e":"changed","id":"13","r":"lights","state":{"alert":null,"bri":254,"colormode":"ct","ct":370,"on":true,"reachable":true},"t":"event","uniqueid":"00:15:8d:00:01:ca:f8:c7-01"}
Any ideas here?
Many thanks!