I’ve used Zigbee2MQTT for years and I loved it.
But I’ve had randomly a problem “Error while starting zigbee-herdsman” after the container upgrades or after a computer reboot. Each time it was a pain to debug it, and I’ve never found the cause of it. Just after a lot of restarts it was working again.
But the last time I didn’t succeed to restart Zigbee2MQTT. Even after a fresh install. Even after restore a save from when it was working. Even after buying a brand new conbee3 in replacement of my combee2.
I’ve spend days on trying to get it to work .
So I’ve tried ZHA. it worked fine at the first try.
That’s why I decided to migrate all my 83 zigbee devices to my new conbee3 on ZHA.
it took me a long time to do that. I still have to rewrite a lot of automations because of the way ZHA rely a lot more on events, but every device seems to work nice.
Exept one thing : all my 7 aqara FP1 have the same behavior. They are pairing and join the network without difficulties, but the sensors never update their status, and everything becomes unavailable after some time.
I’ve don’t find any documentation on this problem, except one person on reddit saying that the FP1 needs to be reseted by pressing the pairing button 10 seconds then 5, but it didn’t work.
Since they all have the same problem, it doesn’t seem to be a random failure. So I’m very surprised to not found any documentation about my problem.
Did I miss something ?