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.
Any help would be much appreciated.