I am new in wirless smart automation and I am about to buy tuya smart switches to my house, they offers both Wifi and Zigbee type,
After a Google search, I found everyone recommends a Zigbee over Wifi,
In my case the main router and HA server located in the basement and i have three access point covering all the house,
Now the question is if i connect a Zigbee geteway to each access point to cover all erea with zigbee network will it work as one network with Home assistant?
I have attached a simple diagram showing home local network,
And since zigbee is mesh and outside of wifi, people generally littered all kinds on powered zigbee (plugs, bulbs, etc.) devices as the relaying routers throughout the house, to build one strong zigbee network.
You could even do zigbee usb dongle (as coordinator) plugging directly to your HA server, and then using the same set of powered zigbee devices to expand your network to cover the entire house.
Which “zigbee hub” your are using, specifically?
Let us know what you have in mind, and whether you need some recommendations.
My house consist of three floors, HA server is in the basement, as ppl say if i use usb dungle it wold be too far from the switchs in 2nd floor, even with mish network there will be a problem in latency
In a mesh you can do multiple hops - with a quick googling I found this example back in 2018:
So your devices on the 2nd floor does not have to talk to usb dongle in the basement.
And, regarding latency, in the real world it is unnoticeable. They are quick and all local, so even with 2x, 3x, 5x, latency, one would still hardly notice.
But yeah, do what you like. I’m more interested in what you have in mind on this coordinator - is it a wifi<->zigbee coordinator? Link?
Do you expect your zigbee mesh ever grow to 100+ devices?
i got it, i bought zigbee type with sonoff zigbee doungle, it takes about month to deliver,
when i receive the order i will install it an let you know if it works with my settings,
i have a deconz conbee Stick for 2 years now, about 50 Devices. for ambiligth to run i bougth a philips hue sync box and philips hub, didnt know that proably samsung will add an ambiligth app… but for me it works.
the philips hue hub is connected to all devices in the livingroom and the rest of the devices are connected to conbee2. both are connected to ha. hue app is connected to a second philips hub for my mom via wlan for the neighbour house, about 70m but not to ha. tryed today hue magic, looks great but has a Bug with groups. but ha node works good enough, probably there is no need for hue magic, i need to test it if i can find a fix for the group Bug…
node red is the ochestrator, really awesome tool not only for smarthome
i love homeassistant great work thank you guys
Hi,
Did you resolve this issue?
I have a similar problem, my apartment is 2 floors above my garage/workshop (other apartments in between) and all my Zigbee devices cannot extend to the lower floor. HA is on the upper floor using the HA Skyconnect as a controller. I do have a wired ethernet cable between the floors with a wifi access point, could I use something that utilizes this cable.AP to extend the Zigbee signal to that other area?
Nothing to extend the existing zigbee net. You could could add a second zigbee net using zigbee2mqtt with an ethernet connected coordinator, or z2m running on a pi.
Depending on the number and mix of sensors needed, it may be easier to just go wifi.
thank you guys