You could try using the official HA SkyConnect Dongle and place more router devices around the house. My approach is to use smart lights with router functionality and avoid turning them off frequently. You can use wall-mounted remotes instead of traditional switches to achieve this. This ensures you have enough routers operating 24/7, making it more convenient when activating different lighting scenes.
However, I suggest avoiding routers from small manufacturers, as many haven’t passed certification and may struggle to perform as the main router. You can go with HUE, or the Xsky lights and switch set that I use, which has been consistently stable.
I have a sonoff temp and humidity sensor and it has not missed a beat in the 2 plus years its been there. I have a mix of aqara and sonoff door contacts and 60% of each make never miss a beat while the other 40% need reconnecting every now and again.
I would say there is nothing inherently wrong with these sensors. I think it is somehow the network that causes the issue, whether that be positioning or some thing else I don’t know about.
Yes, I expect something must be wrong. But I’m using canal 1 for wifi, and 20 for zigbee, to avoid interferences, and the weirdest part is really that only tehese devices are disconnecting.
I have a ton of battery powered switches (a mix of hue smart buttons and tradfri ones) and they never disconnect)
The only disconnection issues I do have are with these temp sensors and these damn ZBMINI-L switches. all the rest is pretty stable.
I actually do have a closer look at the aqara devices, and while Z2M reports them as offline, they DO report this :
Put one of the ones that are reporting disconnected in your hand and breathe on it. If it changes values you need to disable the availability or set it to a higher timer.
Will do, what I started to do is to pair each of these sensors to the closest tradfri bulb, just to make sure they have the best possible signal to the controller, through a “wired” repeater. I hope this will stabilize things, but I’m quite sure I did this already and that it ended up disconnecting as always
regarding the first aqara, I’m afraid I just did reconnect it to the closest bulb before I’ve read your comment, but even with the bulb being at approx 1,5 meters away from the devicek, I get terrible link quality (18). As soon. I blown on it, the temperature changed though.
That means that it is connected. These only report new values when a change is siginificant enough. So you should probably disable availability on these.
Just a thought, if you rely on bulbs as routers, are all the bulbs always powered, or are some powered down at times by turning off mains power. Powering routing devices up and down causes network havoc, regardless of the mesh.
Yep, I’ve followed these guides. My Z2M network uses channel 20 while I underfortunately LOST control on configuring my wifi channel manually since I’ve bought and installed TP-lin deco X50 mesh routers around the house
my coordinator is plugged using an extension cable, and put far away from the mini pc running my proxmox/HASS VM instance.
You checked that the sensor registered temperature changes. Is the issue that you get flat graphs with no changes or that it reports unavailable / offline in Z2M?
But you said the sensor changed temperature when you blew air on it? Then it isn’t offline. How are the graphs over the last 24 hours looking? My point is that if it changes values but is reporting offline in Z2M the availability should be disabled / adjusted. It means that the time for Z2M to consider the device offline is too low. What’s the last seen value on it?
