My 1 year old fried my rpi3b with DeConz running on it. I’ve been using it for years to control some SengLED bulbs and a few Aqara window/door sensors. So I decided it was time to try Zb2Mqtt and set everything up again. Got Mosquitto setup on my server, and installed a docker container for zigbee2mqtt. I got a couple bulbs and sensors attached and it’s integrated into Home Assistant, but holy moly is it unreliable, like 1 in 20 tries it will actually turn a light on. I usually just get a ‘no response’ error.
Any ideas here? I used this Conbee II and DeConz for years without any delay or issues. Kind of stumped. I’ve flashed the latest firmware to the Conbee II, set my channel to 25 to see if it was interference, I’ve unpluged and rebooted so many times…no idea what to do from here. I can add devices very easily, first try every time. But once anything is added it basically becomes useless.
For example, I have a lightbulb named “Hank”, it cannot control it at all through HA or zigbee2mqtt interfaces, maybe 1 in 20 times it might change, or it will change like 10 minutes later. However I can see its talking on the MQTT protocol still.
Zigbee2MQTT:debug 2022-08-23 13:20:46: Received Zigbee message from 'Hank', type 'attributeReport', cluster 'seMetering', data '{"currentSummDelivered":[0,296551]}' from endpoint 1 with groupID null
This is strange. The error is a zigbee error, and you got the problem both in HA and from zigbee2mqtt as I read it. So, not related to HA or MQTT.
Obvious problem would be interference, however you tried to change channel and you do not experience problems pair new devices. A few things I would look into.
Do you have a new device that have never been on any zigbee network? Is this different? The problem is that some devices remember some of the old network if not reset.
The access to the conbeeII. Are you sure there are no other SW accessing the conbeeII, like the deconz add-on or something else?
While I enjoy his videos, I have been using a CB2 with Z2M without an issues for over 12 months now. Early version CB2s may well need a f/w update though.
Fortunately the Phoscon guys have been very helpful in getting the CB to work (I guess they realise that opening up to other platforms rather than just keeping it in deconz is good for wider acceptance)
I have an aqara motion sensor still in the box, but the sensors seem to be working, and I have to factory reset the devices to add them to the network anyways?
There shouldn’t be, deconz was on my RPI that the SD card was fried.
Its on its own Ubuntu virtual machine, with the conbee attached to it. Mosquitto is running as a service on my windows DNS server, separate vm. HASS is running on yet another VM running Ubuntu.
I just ordered a new USB extension cable, if that doesn’t sort it out, what Zigbee stick do you recommend? Or maybe I just go back to DeConz as it worked with that flawlessly for years.
So I just tried something on a whim, and it makes no sense to me, but its now working perfectly…
On my ESXi hypervisor I added a new USB 3.1 controller (virtual) to the Ubuntu VM. Before it was using the standard USB 2.0 virtual controller. I plugged the stick back in, and everything is working as intended. I have zero clue why that would be as the CBII is a 2.0 device.
Hope this helps someone in the future with my esoteric (but not that uncommon) setup. Appreciate all the help guys.
Well I’m back to having issues. I have a brand new, good USB extension cable. My motherboard only has 3.1 and 3.2 USB ports. I can still add new devices very quickly and easily, but I just cannot for the life of me get any consistant control over my SengLED bulbs. I don’t have any other control devices on Zigbee to see if its something with them specifically or the setup itself. Not sure where to go from here other than possibly going back to DeConz as I’ve had zero issues there. Z2M just seems like such a better system, if I could get it to work.
