Tinkerer
(aka DubhAd on GitHub)
September 8, 2022, 6:31am
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This is a wiki entry for the community to track which mains powered Zigbee devices are not routers.
Sengled bulbs
Most 2-wire dimmers/switches
Zemismart switches
Aqara FP1
The Home Assistant Cookbook - Index .
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Nerivec
December 24, 2023, 4:42pm
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The Zemismart ZN-R03E (alt link ) wall switch is actually a router, albeit not a very good one.
It is recognized as TuYa TS0002 by Z2M.
Hedda
(Hedda)
January 15, 2024, 9:32am
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For reference, you can not stop or disable routing on Zigbee Router device. That is, you can not simply reconfigure a Zigbee Router product to not route traffic. So if you want a Zigbee End Device then you specifically need to by non-routers. See:
Have an issue that despite having a few mains powered devices that are routers, almost all of my zigbee devices in the mesh route themselves through a set of tradfri lights. This in itself isnt an issue as the connectivity is fine but the light switch they are attached to is still dumb and get turned off on a regular basis causing all sorts of issues with connectivity.
In ZHA is there a way for me to specify that certain mains powered devices such as the lights are not presented as routers? I…
Who is this guide for?
I have tried to make this guide to be a comprehensive collection of the most basic yet essential tips with a set of actions and best practice steps that should be applicable to all types of Zigbee setups, regardless of what type of Zigbee adapter/gateway/hub/bridge/devices that you are using, however, it has been written with a point-of-view in mind of Zigbee solutions that use a Zigbee Coordinator adapter locally via USB dongle/stick or remotely using a serial server ove…
Don’t forget that the first post in a community guide is a wiki - feel free to add to it or correct it.
This guide was written with reference to:
Core 2023.11.3
Supervisor 2023.11.6
Operating System 11.2
Frontend 20231030.2
Summary
This post is aimed at newcomers to Zigbee - and possibly to Home Assistant - who have stumbled into the wild west of Zigbee devices and manufacturers. It does not recommend particular products; instead it advocates a cautious approach to buying. When it comes t…
Don’t forget that the first post in a community guide is a wiki - feel free to add to it or correct it.
This guide was written with reference to:
Core 2023.12.3
Supervisor 2023.11.6
Operating System 11.2
Frontend 20231208.2
Some subjects come up quite a lot...
That map
[That map...]
The ZHA “network visualisation” was originally a dashboard card. It was absorbed into ZHA and the card is now deprecated, but the repository is still on Github .
The lines on the map show every route between …
Don’t forget that the first post in a community guide is a wiki - feel free to add to it or correct it.
This guide was written and tested these versions but should also work similarly with later versions:
Home Assistant 2023.8.4
Supervisor 2023.09.2
Operating System 10.5
Frontend 20230911.0 - latest
Background
Until recently Philips Hue devices have been controlled locally through a bridge, but the company has now started asking users to open a cloud account, which will ultimately hold det…
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