Very unstable HAOS installation I combination with Z2M

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Hi,
I had a HAOS installation on a Pi4 and it was very buggy. multiple times per week I needed to unplug the pi to restart it. I used the Skyconnect and zha integration for zigbee. I read that a pi can be very buggy. So I bought a NUC15CRK with 16 gig ram and 2 internal nvme disks and 3 sonoff 3.0 zigged plus. I installed proxmox and run HAOS in a virtual machine. I run the Zigbee2mqtt, mosquitto in a container. I also run mariaDB on the second nvme disk in a container as database. After fresh install it runs perfectly. this is for a couple of days and than it is even more buggy than the pi4 installation. The 3 sonoff 3.0 zigbee plus dongles run as coordinator and 2 as router. also have 6 power plugs in the mesh that function as router. in z2m the mesh looks healthy, LQI for all sensors, switches, motion sensor and routers is 80+. somehow after some time the switches or contact sensor do not work anymore. restarting, restoring a backup for the containers is not working. A new install is the only way to get it working again. I really hope someone has a fix, because this is very frustrating.

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I have been running HA for 9 years. I started out supervised, and migrated to HAOS 5 years ago. My equipment is old Intel stuff over 10 years old with an SSD and whatever memory fits. I currently have 2 homes each running a copy and a dev server running a VM because it’s to old to have UEFI.
Sonoff Dongle E and Z2M on one, Sonoff Dongle E with Z2M, an old Sonoff-ethernet Zigbee running ZHA, Zwave, and Thread on the other. (A few stray Tuya devices and Tasmota everywhere.) Over 100 IOT devices total.

I literally have never had the problems you are having.

(And re-installing because some of the zigbee stuff wasn’t meshing correctly may not have been the way I went there. LQI has nothing to do with the mesh that I know of.)

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Hi thanks for you reply. any suggestions to get it working. I do not want to restart the entire installation again

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For Zigbee, have you seen the help library some of the community has pulled together? Lots of reading but things are covered pretty well. The Home Assistant Cookbook - Index

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Hi

I browsed through it and bought 3 new usb 2.0 extension cables since I read good cables are essential. After reboot of proxmox everything worked again. and also much faster response after clicking a button. probably the old cables caused the issues.

Thanks

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