Hi all,
No reaction so far but here are anyway my outcomes so that it may help describing my interference between Zigbee and TpLink DecoX50 Wifi mesh.
So …
At a first glance, my issue would not be related to the upgrade to 2025.1.2.
The problem I met seems to be an unfortunate sudden interference between my Wifi Mesh (3 pads) and the Cobee II Zigbee dongle.
The issue matches the description of Vertigo722 on Reddit.
In summary, I did not get a good idea buying a Tplink DecX50 Wifi-Mesh (3 nodes) in regard at least with my Zigbee based HomeAssistant (as a Wifi mesh, this works very well).
The problem is that the Deco configuration is fully automatic and you have no way to influence how the Wifi channels are selected on each Wifi node. This is a black box supposing Deco is supposed much clever than you to find the best channel apart that apparently, it does not take (well) Zigbee under consideration.
While it worked perfectly for several months without interference (at least not detected on my own) , suddenly Deco selected the channel 4 ( 2427MHz on a 22MHz range) which is the same as the Zigbee Channel 15 (2425 MHZ on a 2 MHZ range) used by default on Conbe II.
By shutdowning all Deco Wifi Mesh nodes, Zigbee gets it back to normal after a few minutes.
What I still don’t understand is that now, after restarting all the Deco X50 Wifi mesh nodes, I don’t get interference even if the selected channel is still back to 4 on all nodes. Still a mystery for me.
I’m afraid right now, if I don’t want to change the Deco X50Wifi mesh, I could get back in trouble again and the only possible fix I would have is to turn the Wifi mesh OFF and ON hoping it will fix the situation. Unless I reconfigure the Zigbee channel to another port but as part as understand, I will have to redo the pairing on each of the 55 nodes.
Now, I evaluation to redo the update to HA 2025.1.2.
Cheers