I wasted the last 3 hours and still haven’t gotten even 1 device to connect.
One person said 20cm. I’m literally touching the Skyconnect and my Zigbee devices together, and they won’t connect.
I’ve tried a 2m USB 2 cable, as well as a 15’ USB 3 cable. All of them plugged into a USB 2 jack on the Raspberry Pi.
My Logbook has nothing:
It’s correctly on channel 25 too!
My life consists of looking at this screen:
All my devices are from IKEA. I just bought them this weekend:
- VALLHORN
- VINDSTYRKA
- STYRBAR
- RODRET
- PARASOLL
I’ve never used Zigbee in my life. I was excited after seeing peoples’ YouTube videos on the technology and the Skyconnect, but it seems like it’s not possible to get a connection no matter what I do.
I even tried different AAA battery brands. I was using Kirkland (from Costco) but also tried Duracell and a pair from an old Blu-ray player remote.
All batteries measured in the “GOOD” area when I used a battery tester.
The one thing I can think is that I have 8 access points in my house: a mix of UniFi U6 Pro and Enterprise. 2.4GHz is set to “Medium” transmit power, but I also have 114 2.4GHz Wi-Fi devices as well as 40 Bluetooth buttons. This is a pretty noisy house in the 2.4GHz range.
Either way, my Bluetooth LE buttons connect from at least 20’ away, so I can’t believe that it’s just the radio environment.
Also, the Skyconnect chose either channel 20 (once) or 25. I even tried manually setting it to 26 to no avail.
I actually bought two Skyconnects and had one flashed as Thread and the other flashed as Zigbee. Because I thought maybe my radio was a dud, I even flashed the other with the Zigbee firmware, but now I see two Skyconnect adapters even though only one is plugged in:
I don’t understand why not one device will connect. Is there a way I can hook it up to my Windows PC or move it to another device that’s not the Raspberry Pi in the network closet?