Hey guys
I don’t have too many Zigbee devices and quite new to the technology, most of my stuff is all wifi based.
I started with a Sonoff Zigbee bridge flashed with Tasmota but I was having an issue with one Aqara motion sensor that was around 16m away so I replaced the bridge with a Sonoff USB Plus dongle which I reflashed to improve output power etc… and flashed the bridge using this guide so that it would work as a router.
The router is about 8 meters from the Zigbee dongle and about 4 meters from the Aqara sensor but it still goes offline intermittently, I’ve tried remove the device under development and re add it to both the Zigbee USB dongle and back to the router but am just not getting any joy.
I was thinking of possibly buying another Zigbee USB dongle and flashing it as a router but don’t won’t to go through that if I’m going to have the same issues.
The motion sensor is not faulty it works fine if I move it closer and if I take another motion sensor that is working fine, move it to the same location it too becomes unavailable.
Any ideas on how I can get this sorted out? I have some Zigbee devices that are even a little further away and they work perfectly.
Here are some images, its currently connected directly to the Zigbee USB dongle.
