I have currently a HA installation running on pi5, with a Sonoff zigbee stick and a couple of zigbee devices in my home, using MQTT and Mosquitto. That works fine. But I’m thinking of placing 1 or 2 zigbee (end-)devices in the garden. I’m talking about a distance of about 100m from the closest router, with just 1 place in between where I could place an additional zigbee router. And that one place has a metal roof and a metal garage door, so maybe not the ideal location for signal transmitting.
So… there are a few options, I believe:
- install an second gateway (either wifi or ethernet connection to the home), and run the zigbee devices back there as a separate network
- install a repeater and hope that the signal extends far enough to create a single mesh
Of course, 1 network is probably the easiest to work with. But before I buy anything, maybe you guys have some do’s and don’ts?