I added one single osram bulb for the moment
Ok, do you have all green lines for your xiaomi? Cause Osram is not that good in distance
I have lots of aqara door sensors and pir sensors and have no problems at all. I do have multiple devices that act as routers though including some cc2531 usb flashed as routers.
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yeah, i also think its a router issue, thats why i am going to ditch the osram and test ikea
i have no bulbs
I was having that problem my Window / Door Sensors I would Pair then after some time stop working
re pair would stop
I have updated to
and it has not miss a reading been about a month now
I’ve recently installed the deCONZ addon v 3.6 and connected a Conbee ii stick, but I’m finding it very slow to respond to hassio compared to my previous hue controllor? Sometimes senors stop reponding altogther and the only way to get them working is to restart DeCONZ
I have the stick connected to my rpi3 which is wired into my networt vai ethernet. Is there a chance that wifi or z-wave can interfere with the conbee? I also have a z-wave usb stick connected into my pi, although I did try disconecting this to see if it made any difference and it didn’t.
Its all setup in exactly the same place as my previous hue controller. I’ve also been trying some aqaua motion senors and a wireless switch all of which don;t seem to repond very quickly and sometimes intermitantly to both motion and presses.
At the momemt it doesn’t appear reliable enough to use so I’m almost at the point of giving up and sending all this back for a refund. But if anyone has suggestions as to how I might be able to improve performace that would be great.
Mine was quite slow/small range until I added a 3ft USB extension cord to it.
It’s as if something isn’t shielded in the PI.
I have 2 Ikea Lights and 2 Ikea Plugs
My ConBee 2 setup is only up for a week, but so far it has been reasonably stable. I do have three Ikea bulbs wich should act as repeaters. The passive nodes, two aqara door sensors and three Ikea motion sensors, seem to have a stable conneciton.
I did once loose all devices. But that could have been a problem with the deconz docker which was described in this thread.
Is there a way to check connection quality for each device in deconz?
Anybody has suggestions for Door/Window Sensors with good reliability / good experience with door window sensor?
Thanks
Xiaomi door/window sensors have been quite reliable for me, plus they’re cheap as well.
Ok, asking my question here since my seperate thread didn’t get any reply so far. I have HA running in a container (not hass.io) and also the deconz container from hub.docker.com. In the past I used just the standard ports, due to other apps I want to run on the same machine I changed the ports. After that I had to add
deconz:
host: 192.168.0.xxx
port: 1234
in the configuration.yaml. After that I was able to add the integration again. But now everything shows up as not available. Any idea?
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Weird thing happening. Using deconz/hassio.
Light below is being imported via deconz, but has been deleted via phoscon app. I think its an orphan. How do I remove it?
Can you share the run command or docker-compose stanza that you are using to run the container? You may be missing a required env variable.
not so stable for me for some reason - have 3 sensors - 2 of them already stopped responding within the hour after adding 
Zigbee and stability
My observations.
I am a radio engineer by profession. Keeping the Conbee away from ANY box that produces RF noise is essential. Maybe you can get away with Conbee in the USB port of a Raspberry if it is in a good metal enclosure and the metal enclosure well grounded. The latter is not trivial. We are talking 2.4 GHz. 20 mm of wire is a large coil at that frequency. So best is to use a USB extension cable so you can get the Conbee away from the Computer. I have a NUC in metal base. And I use an extension for both my Conbee and my Aeotec Zwave stick. Think about the Conbee as an antenna that needs to have best line of sight to as many devices as possible. Do not rely on the communication between your Conbee and all devices to be relayed through a light bulb near the computer.
These are the mixed experiences I have with Philips hue Hub and Conbee/Deconz
- Philips bulbs are rock solid stable on both hubs. They always turn on and off and I never loose them in the network.
- IKEA bulbs on the hue Network work most of the time. They occasionally miss a message. And one of my IKEA bulbs would hang and require that I power cycle the bulb to get it alive again. Since I moved to Deconz I have not yet seen that problem.
- IKEA power sockets hang often. I have 4. And when they hang - they all hang. Something triggers them to hang - clearly a firmware bug. Unplug and replug and they wake up again. I never plugged these to the Philips Hue so I do not know if they would have done the same with that.
- Osram power sockets are always “unavailable” on Philips Hue hub. But they work. They can occasionally get lost but very rare. They work fine on Deconz.
- Xiaomi Aqara window/door sensors work rock solid on Deconz. I have been through huge problems with Z-wave Aeotec sensors and gave up on them. Since I put the Aqara sensors I have not had a single event where I missed a open or close and they never disconnected. Xiaomi has two series. Mine are the small Aqara. I love them. Small and cheap. Their temperature sensor is not accurate but I never cared. Temperature on a Window is useless anyway.
- Philips remotes (4 button) are not reliable on Philips Hue. I made a lot of noise to Philips 2 years ago about it and they finally admitted to me that there is a known problem in their firmware so they are bad at keeping the correct route to the router. You often see a red light and have to wake them up by pressing all 4 buttons till it flashes red/green and then they normally work again. Sometimes you have to repair. On Deconz you get this problem when you pair it first time and carry it to the other room. But since I have not had red lights. I have 17 of them so it is something I notice.
- IKEA remotes work great on Deconz. They often appear as unavailable but the minute you press a button they work. Both the 5 button and the 2 buttons work. I could not pair these with Philips Hue.
Philips Hue has no feature for backing up all your configs and devices. If the Hub dies you start from scratch. Deconz can be backed up easily in the Phoscon app. That has saved me twice where I experimented and lost the database. Always back up Phoscon when you add or remove devices or change groups. And only then.
All in all I am impressed with Conbee and Deconz. But the combo needs Home Assistant to get all the advanced automation features. It is the combo that is magic.
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Well I had the same issue before, but with the release month ago everything works like a charm.
My Setup are several Xiaomi door, temperature, Motion sensors, Osram lights and Plugs, Hue lights, Dimmer switches and Outdoor Motion sensors and ikea motion sensors.
Please have a Look on what i posted sometime ago.
Thanks Yan,
I just came home and all sensors were responding - so I will leave it for now.
If I see unresponsive sensors again, I will reset them and try the way of you described on how to add them.
Don‘t reset them (neither via software or long press). Just search for new lights and click on the button of the sensor!
I have exactly the same problem with the Xiaomi Aquara Door/Window sensors what @DieterClaeys described in post 644. When I setup the network everything is okay. I also agree with @KennethLavrsen’s post 662 that the Xiaomi Aqara window/door sensors are rock solid on Deconz once they are setup. However if at a later stage (eg few weeks later) I add more sensors to the network, they start to fall off the network one after another and I have to re-add all of them. Then the network works like charm again until the next inclusion.
I also suggest to use a quality USB extension cable (1.5m / 5 feet) and route the Deconz stick and Aeon Z-wave stick away from the Raspberry / PC, whatever. It helped me to get rid of connection problems and devices falling off the network randomly.