Help to find a new Zigbee Hub

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Hi, I need your help finding a new hub for Zigbee. Currently, I have the “zb-gw03”. I bought it from Ali, and it came with Tasmota already installed ( https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005265111245.html ). And it does the job well (there were some range issues at the end of the house), so I bought this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005241942142.html
And if you know a range extender that works better, I will love to hear because it seems I need another one, I have devices with RSSI of -79

Now that I’m getting into devices that are more than just lighting or blinds, there are a lot of things that aren’t supported in ZHA but in Zigbee2Mqtt and vice versa, so I thought about buying another Hub for Z2M, which turns out to be a common thing from what I’ve read.

It is also an opportunity to find other things instead of buying the ZB-GW03 and configuring it as Z2M.

So I would appreciate your help in choosing the right Hub, because I can read the Z2M website all day (and half of them are out of stock or impossible to get), but I don’t get the information about its real use (range, reliability, problems of this and that)

Things I must have

  • Wired connection to the network

  • Local interfacing (without Cloud) to Z2M or ZHA

  • Long range (hopefully more than ZB-GW03 so that I won’t have to buy range extenders)

  • Working with Tuya Devices

I appreciate all your help!

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I bought mine from https://slae.sh/projects/cc2652/ and I’m running it till this day.
Some people said don’t every buy anything from him, he is like this and that…
But from my experience he is the of the most colled guys I ever talk to and he it making great stuff.
Im stll using his coordinator on nearly 100 zigbee devices.
I can only recommend him.

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No. Because “range extenders” is not part of the Zigbee lexicon.
Neither is hub, but some manufacturers use the term because “controller” is a scary word. A Zigbee network can only have one controller. (Power-geeks will disagree here).

A Zigbee network is a mesh network. Most devices that aren’t battery-operated also work as routers. (“routers”, not “range extenders”). I have about ten of these scattered all over the house, and there are no dead zones.

I haven’t found any yet. (Yet). But I use the bumblebee approach. I don’t look for a device to appear on a compatibility list, I just pair it and go.

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This is a great one

If you are in the US, this one is also good

(I have both an older tubezb and an UZG-01)

But having Zigbee routers is always necessary to have a good Zigbee mesh

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Thanks for the recommendation, but I need it on RJ45… not USB, and 26 euro (without shipping) for a zigbee “router” is too much for me

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Yes, I know.
It’s easier to refer to it by those names because we know it from other things like WiFi
I know that Zigbee works differently…

I know, but when I got to the point where I had an device that wouldn’t connect due to a range issue, I was very surprised!
And I have no explanation for that
95% of my Zigbee models (15 Tuya devices) are supposed to be used as routers, but it doesn’t seem like it, or they do a terrible job…

Me too, and if it’s not, then you have to look for quirk, but it’s not always available, and it doesn’t always have all the options, and always in these searches I find that somehow z2m has support in one way or another, and the quirk is in the end a conversion from z2m.

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Both are out of stock :pensive:

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How about a SMLIGHT SLZB-06M (if Amazon delivers it to Italy)? It does all you are looking for and seems to be in stock:

SLZB-06M
SLZB-06M1097×1719 161 KB

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Nope, it can’t be shipped to Israel… and 65 USD is a lot of money when there alternative for less. But thanks for the recommendation

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Update!! I Just ordered the SLZB-06 (not the M) from what I got, it’s more reliable with z2m. Found it on their official website and Aliexpress (bought it from Ali, lower shipping cost)

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