Hello Everybody,
i hope somebody has a hint for me to solve the following problem:
Im using a SLZB-06 as a zigbee coordinator ind HA mit z2m. This works fine.
Now i have a second SLZB and flashed it to router mode.
I cannot add it to my existing SLZB as a router device. The log of z2m shows nothing and also the log of the slzb’s. The only thing is that i can read is: [09:19:18] api | Router reconnect after clicking on Reconnect …
What can I do?
Thanks and regards
Michael
This might be a stupid question, but you are enabling pairing mode in Z2M?
yes. If you mean the regular pairng… same as pairing an new device?
Yes. It should be picked up then. Try reflashing it.
Strange……
I switched back to coordinator and the again zu router => no change…
Do you have any further ideas?
I paired other devices with the first stick without any problems, so this is working fine…
Once you enable join, did you press “Router Reconnect” on the web interface of the one you want to use as router?
yes… i tryed both ways 1st in the gui and 2nd in HA under Servceses and Devices => the Log in the SLZ Route only says " api | Router reconnect"
The Log in the SLZ Coordinator says nothing and in th HA Log there is also nothing 
I switched back to coordinator and connected the Stick to my HA Test Machine as a coordinator just to see if zigbee is working => no problems
After dis - and enabling “Permit Join” under MQTT => Zigbee2MQTT Bridge I finaly could connect the 2. SLZB.
I will try this again with a third one…
Regard
Michael
I am in the same boat as you. Can’t get it to pair. What do you mean with dis - and enabling “Permit Join” under MQTT ?
Did it work in the same way for your third one ?
Hello, I’m facing the same problem. Can’t pair the SLZB-06 in router mode to Z2M ? I’ve tried to disable/Enable the “Permit Join” without success. Any Idea ?
Tanks.
/Pv
I finally got one to pair but afterwards it became unavailable. Not sure what to do
Exactly the same problem here. No luck connecting the SLZB-06 in router mode to my zigbee2mqtt network. Tried all the steps listed above… Any solution for this?
Another person with this problem. I managed to connect a SLZB-06 without any problems and then tried with a SLZB-06M and just can’t get it to connect.
Ok, got mine working. I did a combination of things so can’t point to the 1 that worked. Firstly to note that I tried different version firmware that didn’t help.
I then reset the device which battled to come up again, so I moved it to another POE network point which happened to be closer to the coordinator. I could then link it up but the device was saying “unsupported” in Z2M. I reset the device again and moved it to another place better positioned. However, this was powered by USB-C and not POE. It worked fine. Being closer has been noted before in other posts but I find this strange since this is supposed to be 20dB with a +5dB antennae, yet some basic low power devices could connect from where it was. Sure, if the router was directly above/below the coordinator, I could understand, but not how I had it set up.
Anyway, after having it connected fine, I thought I’d try a last time at the original spot through POE and it worked fine. So I have no idea why it is working fine now whereas wouldn’t earlier.
The best I could say is to move it closer for the original link and then move to where you want it.
I hope this helps someone.
late to the party, sorry
I am dissatisfied with its signal strength. I have one as coordinator and one as router 10m away, through 2 walls, USB powered and ethernet connection.
I have such bad LQI for devices that are 4m away and i am constantly having problems connecting and interviewing with devices, even close by. I am currently having a philips hue switch that is 1m away in plain sight and it is not responding. LQI is 135 on the zigbee map, it cannot get interviewed. Sonoff snzb-03 has been a nightmare to work with. Battery powered devices are borderline unusable.
I had the same problem. The AI, or some people, told me it couldn’t be added to Zigbe2mqtt, but it seemed strange to me that the signal was simply passing through it without being on the ZigBee network.
I had tested a final device in the common area of my apartment building, just a few meters away from the SLZB-06 router, and it wouldn’t connect, which wouldn’t make sense given its power.
So, after putting it into pairing mode on my ZigBee network and pressing the reconnect button on the Wi-Fi interface a couple of times, seeing that it wasn’t appearing in the list of new devices, restarting once, and waiting a few seconds, the process finally began.
Now it’s included and allows me to control the transmission power.
Now comes the hard part: running thorough tests to see if I can connect this PIR sensor, even with an inefficient signal, to the building’s mailboxes. The only thing I’m sure of is that I’m probably the biggest geek in the area, but I doubt the Wi-Fi networks of a large community are doing any good with another 2.4GHz signal…
The „permit join“ switch mentioned in this older post can be found in Integrations->MQTT. Then look for a device entry called „Zigbee2MQTT Bridge“. But this switch seems to be activated whenever one uses the „Permit Join“ Button in the Z2M UI, so not sure if this makes a difference.
I also wasn’t able to join a second SLZB-06 as router at first, but after many attempts of „permit join“ in Z2M and „reconnect router“ in the smlight UI it finally was recognized as a „Texas Instruments“ router device.
If you’re using the SLZB-06M as a coordinator, I don’t know if my fix will help but it might give you some insight… I use mine as a router/repeater and it has been working fine, but only after several attempts and days of troubleshooting! (old post is here)
I use a HA ZBT1 as coordinator, and two SLZB-06M as routers. One SLZB-06M is on the 2nd floor on the front-western side of the house, the other is on the 1st floor on the back-eastern side of the house. (ZBT is in the basement.)
I realized that the smaller Unifi APs (the one with 3 jacks) are not able to power the SLZB-06M as PoE, but it will work (as PoE) if using the larger Unifi APs (8+ jacks)… plus a few other things, which are noted in my old post.