Hi all,
After reading some posts about how many devices a coordinator can handle directly it hit me. Have I done something wrong in my setup perhaps. So wanted to ask here.
I have a Skyconnect and 43 devices. All devices are added on the coordinator it self just under the ZHA section when you click on “add Device” is that the right approach. I see that you can add a device through another device if you click on a device that is a router. But is that the way to go? or is just a feature if you e.g have some devices that can’t reach initially the coordinator and you can add the device from that router already added. Is there some best practice.
The reason why I ask is that I might have to redo my entire setup and I want to make sure I then make it correct afterwards.
I just went through my network and made sure all AP’s are running channel 1 and 6 and removing channel 11, so that should leave channel 25 to be free for zigbee. I don’t have any neighbours close so nothing to interfere with that besides my own house. I currently run on channel 15 and I do have some slight delay on my devices and some complains in logs, but it did improve after fixing my wifi. But to try and make It flawless and as people say rock solid ( never had that) I want to try and change to 25 using the “new” option in HA to change channel. But for some reason it does not work well for me for some reason. It is changed and all devices are still present and not unavailable, but I can’t turn anything on/off it times out. As soon as I change back to 15 all works again, despite maybe some poor seconds delays occasionally. So my guess is that if I want to change to channel 25 I have to redo the entire network. ?
Some recommendations for me. I would just like to get back to have instant reaction like when I was using vendor hubs like Hue, Ikea etc. After putting all in ZHA it’s working just not optimal.
Thanks in advance.