deCONZ - Official thread

3 AP on 3 different channels?
That’s your problem for sure, you should have maximum 2 (better only 1)

Why don’t you use same channel and same SSID, at least for 2 or use the function extender (the extender will use the same band of the AP that is extending)

Yes , they are same SSID, but best practice is always to put every AP on a different channel, so they don’t overlap

I understand, but now they overlap with your Zigbee network: you can keep maximum 2, and hope you don’t have a neighbour with a strong WiFi

is the overlap really an issue? i now have AP still on 1,6,11 , and zigbee on 25 , gonna test that first

In my case yes, I had 3 too + Zigbee. I took out one Wifi (keeping 2 channels) and I solved a lot of problems

ok, thats my next step then

thnx

according to this image

i am now on 25 , its also out of range of channel 11 , so i should be good anyway ? or am i misunderstanding

I think 25 interferes with 11

i believe 22-23 interferes? no?

I don’t believe there is a such a clear distinction between WiFi/Zigbee channels as in that graph: reality is for sure very different

For a clearer explanation of the interference issues see:

https://www.metageek.com/training/resources/zigbee-wifi-coexistence.html

That’s a good explained link, gonna do the 1,6,1 approach…

from the link

Channel Planning

When deploying ZigBee and WiFi networks in the same environment, channel planning for peaceful coexistence is key.

Normally, we get three WiFi channels to work with (utilizing 1, 6, and 11), but to make room for ZigBee, we may have give up channel 11.

Indeed ,the 1,6,1 approach :wink:

WOW 3.0 released with VNC support :slight_smile:

now, i want to migate from marthoc to this one, so what are the best steps?

  • make a backup file in phoscon
  • stop marthoc addon
  • remove integration in HA
  • start official addon
  • restore backup file in phoscon
  • install integration?

or are the integration / backup stuff not needed? if not, is every entity still there in HA , no renaming needed?

I believe the backup/restore is 100% needed.

However I don’t think you need to remove the integration from HA; just stop one, start the other and restore, then restart HA. Not sure it will work, but that’s my plan. I just don’t want to lose the entity customizations that would get deleted if I removed the integration. I’ll probably be trying it for myself tonight or this weekend.

i always thought that the config stuff is also on the conbee stick itself, so backup is also not needed
backup/restore only needed when the conbee stick is being replaced when its broken or something

well, i just tried, indeed you need to restore backup file, otherwise you dont see anything in phoscon
once backup is restored, it looked OK
but after restarting HA, i have error below, not sure where i need to change that IP manually,
i think we need to remove integration and readd, but not gonna to that now, so back to marthdoc :slight_smile:

2019-06-27 21:06:10 ERROR (MainThread) [.] Error connecting to deCONZ gateway at 172.30.32.1
2019-06-27 21:06:10 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.config_entries] Config entry for deconz not ready yet. Retrying in 40 seconds.

ok, i have it running now, ignore the IP stuff above, seems the port is changed
so marthoc use 8080, but this ones uses 40850 , so change that to 8080 , or change the core.config_entries file like below
then after restart HA it works… no need to remove and readd integration (thank god) :slight_smile:

                "connection_class": "local_push",
                "data": {
                    "allow_clip_sensor": true,
                    "allow_deconz_groups": true,
                    "api_key": "xxx",
                    "bridgeid": "00212EFFFF02A480",
                    "host": "172.30.32.1",
                    "port": 40850

maybe this stuff can be added to the migration stuff on the “migration to this addon” part
i think more people are now want to convert from marthdoc to this offcial addon, since it now supports VNC

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