WTH is the ZHA network map looking so messy and is not usable?

Month of "What the heck?!"
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You are right. I changed my initial WTH based on your feedback. The other ideas for improving this have been added to the WTH.

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Thanks, now it seems vote worthy :slight_smile:

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I raised a similar ticket, closed because of its similarity to this. My own view of the visualisation page is that:

The zha visualisation screen

  1. has no key indicating what colours and shapes mean. The docs aren’t clear on how to read the values off the connections (yes they’re rssi, but why are some a single number and others XX/YY. I never found a satisfactory answer. - now finally in this thread I hear that they’re bidirectional (in some cases)

  2. does not remember if you place nodes in specific areas.

  3. does not allow you to focus in on just the connections to one device. This would make troubleshooting easier

  4. is next to impossible to use with a laptop glidepad

In short, my personal opinion is that this feature is overdue an accessibility overhaul.

In addition, with an appropriate interface this tool could also provide easier access to ZigBee binding so that specific switches continue to work directly if zha is down.

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I used to use deConz and in its visualisation you could drag the nodes around and their position would be persistent. I found this helpful to put all the routers central and the battery devices in the same room around them. This made it easier to see if a battery device was only connected to the hub.

And most of the time I don’t believe there really is a mesh - I have a lot of Aqara devices and if you move them to another room they don’t magically join another router - they drop off the network.

I use the ZHA Toolkit (a bit) and that shows a lot of the battery devices only as neighbours to one router. If that router happens to be a smart light that a guest turns off at the wall, the battery device might not recover - or at best take a long time to do so.

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I think it would be really nice if the devices on the map could be grouped by something the user is more familiar with, like the rooms or floors assigned to each device.

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24 hours with the default settings in ZHA, but you can change that if you’re willing to sacrifice battery life in favour or reporting interval.

Easiest thing would be to get a smart switch which supports decoupled mode if you’re controlling a smart bulb.