Zigbee LED Light doesn't get signal in a shelter room

Hardware
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Best you can do is to use it as a second coordinator. But if you are using ZHA, you will have to use Zigbee2MQTT for the second coordinator.
And that Zigbee mesh will probably be restricted to the safe room.

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Sounds like getting Zigbee supported inside the room is a lot of fuss.

I do have decent Wi-Fi signal in the room (enough for mobile devices + Netflix style streaming) so it should be enough for remote controlling devices too.

At this point I’m thinking I’d either go for:

  1. Wi-Fi controlled LED Light bulb
  2. IR/RF controlled LED Light bulb (and potentially other devices) and then control them with a Broadlink RM4 Pro that connects over Wi-Fi.

Happy to hear if you have other ideas/comments on either of these routes (or otherwise)

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Zigbee is a mesh network with low powered radios, so going another route makes sense.

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If WLAN connectivity is good, a esp8285/ tasmota (or esphome) bulb sounds like a good plan.

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That’s the plan, yeah. Waiting till I get one and will update here how it went.