SONOFF ZBDongle-P set up as router with skyconnect coordinator - router goes offline after awhile

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I recently migrated to a skyconnect coordinator, and flashed my Sonoff to be used as a router. Everything worked well, however, the sonoff router goes offline every once in awhile.

From my research - the way to fix this is to configure the device to report periodically to the coordinator (around 4 minutes). I’m not sure if this is related or true or not. It’s never stayed online enough for any device to connect to it (other than coordinator).

Question - any thoughts on why the sonoff dongle P router is going offline, or how I can prevent it? Is there a way I can update a setting in HA to make the router report to coordinator every 4 minutes? Or reflash with a modification to the below script?

FYI I used the below command to flash the Sonoff with router software. I have the ieee part in there to program a secondary ieee address since the skyconnect cloned the primary address — python cc2538-bsl.py -p COM3 -evw --ieee-address 00:12:4b:00:01:4d:12:34 --bootloader-sonoff-usb CC1352P2_CC2652P_launchpad_router_20221102.hex

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Never heard you could change that. I own 3 of these dongles. One is my coordinator and two are routers. All 3 have been updated with the latest firmware and not having any issues with them dropping offline. I did have an issue with one router but reflashing the firmware resolved that issue. Maybe try that? Also, make sure you restart ZHA or Z2M. I did read on the github page that some people were having issues with the new firmware so if that does work then downgrade to the previous version.

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I’ll try reflashing. I wonder if part of the problem might be that there is no device connected to the router by the time it goes offline. Maybe I’ll try to add a device directly to the router, not sure if that’s possible.

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Reflashing didn’t help, still goes offline and doesn’t come back unless I press a button and add new device so it’s discovered again.

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Hello jcat59.
you say that you flash your sonoff dongle as routeur, but how do you use your sonoff dongle as routeur.
you use it in ZHA ?
i successfully flash my dongle-P as routeur but after i can’t activate it in ZHA

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I flashed my ZBDongle-P to be a router as above, except for the IEEE part, and it wouldn’t pair. Tried several times. Even tried re-flashing and, nothing.

I then decided to flash it with the IEEE part included and it paired right away. Thank you @jcat59 for that idea.

MrGrey.