Extend Timeframe for device adoption?

Configuration Zigbee
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Hi,
is it possible to extend the time for adding devices?
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2

You can program it in an automation and have the timer with the time you´d like.
But is 5 minutes not enough? one device should not take you longer than that surely. If you need more time, you can just stop and start and the clock restarts.

3

I have 96 sensors that need to be paired again. It’s just annoying to repress the button.

I’d love a “allow until disable” button

4

In the “old days” I recall an automation like below. This should work and then you do not have a timer.

# Switch for enabling joining
switch:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Zigbee2MQTT Main join"
    state_topic: "zigbee2mqtt/bridge/config/permit_join"
    command_topic: "zigbee2mqtt/bridge/config/permit_join"
    payload_on: "true"
    payload_off: "false"
5

Thanks, I’ll try that.

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6

Use the setting in Z2M under Settings > Settings > permit join. This is enabled until the next restart of the Add-on.

There’s another place where you can enable it (without a timer) in the config sceen of the Add-on, but I don’t remember exactly where. :slight_smile:

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7

Oh god how could I not see that? <.<

Thank you very much

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8

As you see on the other posts, this is one of the good kept secrets in Z2M. :rofl: :rofl: Don’t you worry, how do you think I knew about that…? :rofl: :rofl:

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Not for the disabled, adding multiple devices, also I get 4:19 (maybe 4:20 in the code, but that never shows), not 5:00. Did they SHORTEN the window? Sorry to bring this back up, but it never seems to have been addressed and if it can be shortened, it can be made longer. I’m not saying 3hr, but 10 or 15 min.

It’s not the end of the world, but quality of life for sure. Also, we have a Home Assistant home to make this house more disability friendly, the problem is… I’m the most disabled and I’m doing the setup (major brain surgery to do a partial (40%) removal of a brain stem (pons, interior, through the cerebellum) with complications and side effects, but I got out of the wheelchair and a can sort of write, really helps struggling little kids to see you trying to write at 29 years old as they struggle to write at ~4, my daughter was just before 2, pretty good at 4, and by kindergarten she was very confused why kids needed to know 1/2 of the alphabet and she was checking the spelling of preposterous, but she’s a freak (in the best way) like I was.

I reminded the kids that didn’t struggle academically (only in sports, they’d giggle, their parents’ might start to say something to them, but I’d tell them it was fine, I really was AWFUL and that hard work pays dividends (well age appropriate wording). I then ask what they are good at and something that makes them happy, even if they’re bad.

Sorry, detours seem to be my specialty. My POINT was that HAOS is great for us in the disabled world. We can’t afford pricey stuff (I have a little WiFi, but I am NOT a fan of WiFi over Zigbee. So far, I find that Z2M is on par with ZHA, but I like more settlings appearing in Z2M, even it I need an extra Add-on running (I already had MQTT and Mosquito, I think for Tasmota or Shelly). Z2M seems less stable, like a sensor will show up as unavailable occasionally… that may be related to something I learned Aqara H2 US switches have a temp (sadly, no humidity) and blackout (including brownout) counter.
My $0.99 (actually $4.95, that’s what I paid- New Temu) Zigbee stick that I transfered (migrated) my network to temporarily while I played with the alleged thread firmware available on the Sonoff ZBDongle-E, right when I figured it out, my 17 yo daughter moved some stuff on my desk and the USB not only detached from the PCB of the Texas Instruments board, but, the Rx and Tx pads came too. Freak accident, but I wasn’t able to connect the board at all, much less long enough to migrate back, so I decided to rebuilt with Z2M.
I started with my room, a while ago, my daughter’s room is a mix of matter over WiFi (outlet store had 2 plugs, I thought they were WiFi version said nah, but they were matter over WiFi, kind of wish my wife grabbed everything that plugs in to try it, although 1-2 would be a bummer because if I liked them, that’s it. GE pissed me off between not supporting HASS , better than Belkin Wemos crippling their non-matter “smart” products

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