Went from Deconz to ZHA this weekend and starting to regret it

There is alot of red(bad) ways now. but will have a closer look later or.

Red is weak or a low quality signal. Might be suffering from interference. You might also have a WiFi overlap issue going on. The Zigbee channel may have changed after you swapped from Deconz.

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I’ve been trying to figure out how to do that. Thanks! One question though. If I’m using a Conbee2 stick, do I use deconz_config: instead of ezsp_config:?

It appears ZHA only allows lights and sockets/switches in their groups so I use both ZHA and yaml for sensor groups.

“lights, switches, and fans” according to ZHA docs, most commonly used as a light group for lightbulbs:

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha

There is also support for grouping of lights, switches, and fans (i.e. support for commanding device groups as entities). At least two entities must be added to a group before the group entity is created. As well as support for binding/unbinding (i.e. bind a remote to a lightbulb or group).

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha#binding-and-unbinding

Yes.

A recommendation is to read and follow all of these general tips:

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/#best-practices-to-avoid-pairingconnection-difficulties

and also general tips in:

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/pull/18864https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/pull/18864/commits/b21c49589d898d60a1a235afa7b9c148d013cfee

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This is really strange. These 2 units are right beside eachother out side and no Wifi close by.

what’s the reason behind moving from deconz to zha? Is zha better in any way?

I had some issues with Deconz and thought it was worth a try.

OSRAM/ LEDVANCE devices are infamously known for having poor radio reception and transmission.

They are also infamously known for not wanting to act as Zigbee router devices for many other brands.