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Be warned! Those devices look like they probably are rebranded variants or the original Tuya Zigbee USB Range Extender / USB Dongle Signal Repeater (Tuya SKU: “RP280” / Zigbee ID: “TS0207” and sold under several different brand names, like ex. LoraTap, Lonsonho, Smarsecur, etc.) as that specific device is infamously known to cause weird and intermittent Zigbee network stability issues because it does not forward all messages/communication from all devices not made by Tuya. So while that device will connect and initially seem to work as it should you can expect it to cause various problems with non-Tuya devices in Zigbee network, (at least unless you open it up and manually flash other firmware with a compatible JTAG debug probe). ZHA developer commented: “They black hole traffic from non-Tuya devices under certain circumstances.” and elaborated further that interoperability compatibility is awful as they do not route all messages as a Zigbee Router should. See see references:

I instead highly recommend that you read this other thread which includes tips on some specific repeater/extender products Zigbee Router that are well known to work great as dedicated stand-alone Zigbee Router devices :

I can personally recommend Sonoff ZBDongle-E (which works best of all as a dedicated Zigbee Router) and Sonoff ZBDongle-P (which works best of all as a dedicated Zigbee Coordinator adapter) as well as the IKEA Tradfri Signal Repeater (which works very well out-of-the-box as an all-in-one Zigbee Router).

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That concept only works well for Zigbee once you already added many mains-powered Zigbee Router devices, but if you are starting and primarily want to add battery-powered then it is a good idea to begin by adding a few dedicated Zigbee Router device that serves no other purpose than repeating the signals and extending your network.

The benefit of having a dedicated Zigbee Router device that is always powered and connected is that no one in your home is likely to touch it, while someone is more likely to unplug, move or power-off non-dedicated products like a power plug. At least many come here reporting issues with other family members powering off Zigbee lightbulbs that are installed in ceiling-lights still connected to a dumb wall-switch.

It is also a philosophy about using a specialized product versus a jack-of-all-trades product where you could argue that a dedicated product that is only designed to serve a single purpose it usually better at that job than another product that was primarily designed to do something else.

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