Long time first time - thanks to all contributors on here, you’ve being a big help over the last couple of years.
Has anybody had success in using the new(ish) Ikea Tretakt smart plug as a zigbee router. I bought x4 of the them at the weekend and spread them out in my home.
I have the Aqara contact sensors on doors that are too far away from my zigbee coordinator and saw these plugs as a cheap solution to build a better network.
The plugs have just created there own mesh linked together (and weirdly just one motion sensor connected to the smart plug as a route back to the coordinator,), none of the contact sensors have connected to the plugs, despite the plug being between the sensor and the coordinator.
Is there a special technique required to get these setup?
The facts.
The plugs are appearing in zigbee2mqtt but configured as “unsupported”.
The plugs state can be controlled via zigbee2mqtt.
The sensors read as normal when close to the coordinator.
When the sensors are positioned in their final location, their state does not report.
The plugs appear on the zigbee2mqtt map but only as linked routes to themselves and back to the coordinator.
I tried re-pairing the sensors in their final location, but they do not connect via neither the coordinator or the plug routers.
While I also didn’t see any reference within the specs, they appear on zigbee2mqtt as a router so the assumption is they should act like one. I’m also under the impression that any mains powered zigbee device acts as a repeater/router on the network?
Updated to the latest version of Z2M (1.36.1), re-paired the sensors in their final location and they connected via the Tretakt plugs. Phew - that was a reasonably straightforward troubleshoot. Thanks @francisp
Which coordinator are you using?
I’m using a Conbee 2 with ZHA and the plugs get recognized, are functional and they form a mesh, but none of the Aqara contact sensors will connect to them.
