Currently I’ve a Raspberry pi 4 with a Conbee II. Set up it’s fine, however due the size of my house (+100m2 and 3 floors) with thick concrete walls it’s an issue… mostly due I would like have some outdoors sensors and I’m not able to make the signal arrive.
The position where the Raspberry + Conbee 2 is place… is not the best, however, I’ve tried to pair some devices to plugs I configured as repetears, this did the trick for some cases but not all.
Will a different Zigbee adapter (maybe with antenna or more powerfull) improve or fix this issue? if so, can be both plugged into the raspberry ?
I have a similar situation but with a Skyconnect stick. I switched to an Smlight controller. It has a larger antenna and better range and makes the network more stable. Most important, it’s wired and wireless so I can run it over wifi now and switch it to wired PoE once I move all my systems into the same closet as this controller.
That’s the beauty of Ethernet connected coordinators though, you can put the coordinator in a better spot than your equipment closet. These places tend to be full of shielding metal and electromagnetic interference. Put the coordinator away from here central to the rest of your repeater devices.
