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high knot
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do you guys have some sort of calibration ritual or should i just get 2 more thermometers and put them nearby to see how off it is

astral seal
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Yeah just use a known good thermometer to see if it needs to be calibrated.

crisp stirrup
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I'll check and get back to you

crisp stirrup
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Switched it back for the night; i'll send another log if you want tomorrow

high knot
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and it was 1 degree lower

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so ill just stick to that

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changed the calibration in prog mode

soft saddle
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Anyone ever encounter an issue where some of the Hue lights in Zigbee2MQTT say they need and update, while other identical lights with the same firmware version and release date don't need an update, and updating the ones that need it doesn't remove the update alert?

fallow iron
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Sigh... After a power trip, I found that my SkyConnect cannot be connected.

My installation is Proxmox -> Ubuntu VM -> Docker -> Home Assistant -> ZHA

It has been running smoothly for months.

Now, I get this error in Ubuntu "cp210x ttyUSB0: failed set request 0x7 status: -32"

And in Home Assistant / ZHA it says "Failed setup, wil retry"

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I've tried the following:

  • revert to Ubuntu VM backup from a few days ago
  • flash latest firmware for SkyConnect (on another computer)
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Is there anything else I can try? Is the stick fried? I can update the firmware so I feel it's not the case.

cerulean flicker
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@austere patio I found out why my friend device not working. It's mainly because I bought the high end certified for alarm systems, which they have not tested against others then the alarm company they sell it to

alpine badger
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Hi, i just bought a Ikea Tradfri motion sensor to add to my ZHA it connects fine, but it triggers all the lights when motion is detected. i didn't create any automation for it... when i create one, it just ignores it and turns on all the lights anyways... Any idea's?

cerulean flicker
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That is because their motion sensors are mainly ment for their own Light bulb. I gave up using it

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There might be a work around, but not sure

ember raven
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This isn't directly HA or ZB related, but since it's a ZB device, I thought I'd ask the smart people here... I have Aqara E1 TRVs, and I bought some expensive Lithium batteries for them, hoping it would last longer than a normal battery. Non-rechargeable due to the voltage difference.
Now last night, one of my TRVs failed. And upon investigation, I found that one of the batteries isn't working anymore. The polarity has switched, and the voltage is only 1.1v.
I'm no electromechanic, but I'm baffled. Any thoughts?

winged light
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I'm trying to setup MQTT broker on Proxmox but it fails to start. Log shows that it fails to open the password file? Any clue why does it fail and how to fix it? The file has been created with command sudo mosquitto_passwd -c /etc/mosquitto/passwd <user> and my conf file has the following:

persistence true
password_file /etc/mosquitto/passwd
listener 1883```

Here's a snippet of the log file:

1702982022: Config loaded from /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf.
1702982022: Error: Unable to open pwfile "/etc/mosquitto/passwd".
1702982022: Error opening password file "/etc/mosquitto/passwd".

sour shadow
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What user does mosquitto run as?

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Does that user have access to the file?

winged light
# sour shadow What user does mosquitto run as? 
Job for mosquitto.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status mosquitto.service" and "journalctl -xeu mosquitto.service" for details.
root@mqtt:~# ls -l /etc/mosquitto/passwd 
-rw------- 1 root root 123 Dec 19 12:32 /etc/mosquitto/passwd
root@mqtt:~#
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as root and has access

sour shadow
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You're sure it runs as root?

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You actually checked the unit file?

cobalt compass
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hey guys, sorry for throwing my question in, but i got one regarding zigbee / sonoff usb dongle.
my HA is running on a dell optiplex in my "serverroom" on the first floor.
now I want to use a sonoff usb dongle on the ground floor.
how can I do that? can i use a pi for that?
my idea is to connect the dongle to a pi and use it as a "relay" or "hub" that sends all the required data over ethernet to my HA instance.
i hope you understand what i mean 😄

Is this even possible?

summer thicket
winged light
sour shadow
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You're running the Mosquitto add-on?

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Or a proxmox container?

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Or ...?

winged light
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nope, proxmox container

sour shadow
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Thankfully the author of that script is here and will be able to help 😛

winged light
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Cool, I hope he will provide some help. Initially I got the broker working but just left it running because I was waiting some actual zigbee devices from postal office. After the devices arrived the broker was failed and now I'm stuck even I tried to deleting and reinstalling the container.

summer thicket
winged light
fallow iron
cobalt compass
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is this a good idea?

fallow iron
cobalt compass
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nice !
i didn't know that zigbee2mqtt is just a piece of software.
i thought all the time this is ONLY an HA addon. because of that i couldn't figure out how to install that on a pi 😄

fallow iron
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Indeed.

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I never thought to use ChatGPT for home automation questions. I should give it a try!

sour shadow
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ChatGPT has a better than even chance of feeding you utter shite

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It's getting better, but still needs to be treated with caution

cobalt compass
clear ore
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thank you!

final timber
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Hi all, I’ve got one of these switches already successfully setup but I’ve added a second via xigbee and it’s giving me no actions to make the automation with….

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Oh, can’t send screenshots. On one switch I have the following Device offline
"Button" pressed
"Button" continuously pressed
Switch Battery battery level changes

And on the new switch that is identical I only have

Device offline
Identify has been pressed
Battery battery level changes

crisp stirrup
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NCP entered failed state

high knot
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I just got a centralite pearl and it seems to be working, my next goal is to buy a temp probe and have the temperature based on that too, however not really sure how i would go about doing that because I only have control over the set temp

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is it impossible in this setup

final aurora
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I have a Sky Connect in the main network that builds up and extends my Zigbee strength are my house full of hue Zigbee devices. I kinda like the Hue application and want it to stay in the cloud I want a Zigbee network for all my sensors. Because I'm hosting all my hue lights in the cloud am I going to have to buy things to add strength to the network?

mellow geode
mellow geode
final timber
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I just don’t understand why the previous switch worked perfectly fine!

mellow geode
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They might be a slightly different revision

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Xiaomi devices sometimes also "randomly" reports a different device signature that causes existing quirks to not match

final timber
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Ok, thank you will try to raise an issue in github.

final aurora
mellow geode
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should be a simple fix if it’s the same device

mellow geode
final aurora
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Okay, any suggestions on Zigbee Maines? I can't seem to find it on Amazon. If I got one of the new Alexa devices that have hubs could they be extenders?

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Locally

mellow geode
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No

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Mostly smart plugs or smart bulbs

final aurora
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I have one Samsung smart plug that's Zigbee. I'm not sure exactly which plugs I can use. I'm going to flash custom firmware to my Wyze smart plugs but they're wifi. The Samsung one should work though I would assume.

grim igloo
hybrid kestrel
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hi guys. my ikea remotes, all 8 of them stopped working as of the latest update. all other zigbee devices are working. anyone else with the same issue?

final aurora
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But he just said I would not be able to use the Hue features if I did that. There would be two different networks.

rocky rose
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hey, anyone here got the Flash Programmer ? i want to update the sonoff dongle

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but im not able to download the god damn flash programmer

final aurora
main ruin
final aurora
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Okay, I guess I'll just figure it out. Thanks is there an app that can test your signal?

mellow geode
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You should be able to download a ZHA diagnostics file and see the signal levels at the bottom of the file

final aurora
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Okay

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I'm trying to do the same thing with Bluetooth I got some ESP32 but I have some tablets and I know I can send out a signal for them so I probably won't even need to do that.

hexed musk
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Can anyone provide some advice on external converters with zigbeetomqtt? I am using a custom device with ptvo firmware. I had the device working previously with no issues using the external converter. However after adjusting the firmware and re-adding the device I am getting the NOT supported error even though a new converter is being used. The ptvo firmware configurator generates a new external converter for the firmware when you comple. Basically any time I try to use an external converter even with the most basic firmware configuration it doesn't work. Using the ptvo firmware in is "default" form, which is natively supported by zigbeetomqtt works perfectly fine.

It appears as though z2m isn't able to access the converter file even though it is added in the configuration.yaml file and located in the same directory. I don't understand what may have changed between when it was previously working and now. I have even tried a completely fresh install of z2m with no success.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

final timber
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In the short term is there anyway i can manuall assign the quirk?

mellow geode
final timber
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Time to learn how to setup a custom quirk! Thanks for your help!

mellow geode
leaden grotto
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Is inching possible on zigbee Plugs without using HA?

final timber
mellow geode
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You removed the one with OnOff, right?

final timber
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Yes.

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Wait let me double check lol

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I actually removed (Identify.cluster_id,) But it still made it work. Ill change it to being the line you said (onoff)

rocky rose
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can my SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus E interfere with other zigbee 3.0 gateway?

dreamy plover
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Hi, anyone here having a Frient Energy Meter v2 [EMIZB-141]? I am trying to understand if someone else had an issue with box not sending anything for the Energy property? I just get Null. If anyone can advise would be appreciated. I also posted in the Energy chat as I am not sure where it needs to be posted

final timber
mellow geode
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Huh, you deleted/put back into the upper signature section and didn’t touch the replacement section, right?

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From the signature seen in the issue, the device didn’t report its OnOff cluster, hence it didn’t match to the original signature/quirk

final timber
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So if i remove the Onoff bit from the signature section it dont work.

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But when i remove the identify bit it works wth

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OUTPUT_CLUSTERS: [
OnOff.cluster_id,
],

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Thats all i have in the sig section now

sour shadow
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can my SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus

flint sluice
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Hello. Is it possible to manually control which repeaters are assigned to specific end devices? I think I'd like to optimize my devices as some have trouble staying connected

molten linden
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you can join end devices to specific coordinators, once joined they may stay or pick another router. exception is original aqara devices which will likely stick with whatever they first see.

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^ @flint sluice

flint sluice
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Thanks. Do you do that in the settings? I see a Bind option which may be what I'm looking for. Am I barking up to the right tree?

molten linden
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In ZHA you go to the device info page and under the 3 dot menu is Add Device via this Device

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For z2m I think it’s similar but can’t remember the react process

half jacinth
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Any tips for a fella that is receiving the error BUFFER_FULL in Z2M? I've already updated the firmware on my coordinator to the latest stable release.

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I've tried searching this error, but I can't seem to find anything helpful on the topic.

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I tried downloading more RAM, but that didn't work.

ashen bluff
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Please share the whole error and some context. What coordinator are you using?

half jacinth
# ashen bluff Please share the whole error and some context. What coordinator are you using?

Thanks for the reply. Details below:

Coordinator: ZBDongle-P" (based on CC2652P)

Error:
Publish 'set' 'brightness' to 'Kitchen_Lights' failed: 'Error: Command 2 genLevelCtrl.moveToLevelWithOnOff({"level":150,"transtime":20}) failed (SREQ '--> AF - dataRequestExt - {"dstaddrmode":1,"dstaddr":"0x0000000000000002","destendpoint":255,"dstpanid":0,"srcendpoint":1,"clusterid":8,"transid":16,"options":0,"radius":30,"len":6,"data":{"type":"Buffer","data":[17,116,4,150,20,0]}}' failed with status '(0x11: BUFFER_FULL)' (expected '(0x00: SUCCESS)'))'

Context: Commands either lag or fail entirely when I see this message appear in Z2M

proud oyster
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Before I go back to my Conbee 2. I would like to use my skyconnect as my controller since unraids dislikes my conbee 2

I switched the firmware for the skyconnect to zigbee firmware only because the multi protocol was not working for me. Zigbee and thread would fail randomly until I started from scratch again.

Loaded on my the zigbee firmware and I’m still having all sorts of issues. It will state initializing off and on.

If I try to reconfigure any setting it will state unknown error.

Edit:

Switched back to my conbee 2. Don’t get the weird initializing.

I guess the skyconnect is defective?

mellow geode
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Probably not. Did you reconfigure ZHA after flashing back EZSP firmware? Did you post any logs or proper error messages?

proud oyster
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When I switched back to a zigbee firmware and disabled multi protocol to remove all the adds-on and integrations. I restarted HA and reconfigured Zha multiples times but it would continue to initializing on and on. I’ve tried restoring in different ways

Sent back to conbee and it just worked

I didn’t have debugging logging on. So I’ll have to go through the logs to see if anything was captured.

eternal mountain
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For the past few days (not sure exactly when it started), I'm also seeing the "Initializing" issue on ZHA with the built-ik Zigbee hub on an HA Yellow. Anytime know if there's an open bug for that? I'm just using the standard Zigbee-only firmware.

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But ZHA seems to keep toggling between working and Initializing every few minutes, with intermittent communication as a result.

proud oyster
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Interesting. Yellow has the skyconnect built in right?

That was my exact issue

eternal mountain
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I'm not sure if it's exactly a Sky connect, but I assume it's very similar hardware. Rebooting the HA Yellow sometimes stabilizes it a bit, but not always.

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I might try to roll back to my last backup to see if a recent HA update has caused the issue.

proud oyster
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When I was using sky connect. I tried rolling back, uploading saved backups, and erasing and restarting. I got continued to get the same issue

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Thanks for sending the link. Good to know my skyconnect is probably not the issue

eternal mountain
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Sounds like it's a bug in 2023.12. I'll try to roll back to 2023.11.

sharp rune
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Hey guys, I'm new to the hole smart home stuff and right now I'm trying to get the Sonoff ZigBee 3.0 Usb Dongle Plus (Model ZBDongle-E) to run on my home assistant Green.
I have the Mosquitto Broker running and also added the ZigBee2MQTT add on.

My problem is, that I get an error message which says "failed to start zigbee". Any ideas? Any information and help I found so far, was about the mqtt settings but I believe, the stick has a problem I need to reflash it?

hexed musk
ashen bluff
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Please note that this dongle is only experimentally supported

sharp rune
hexed musk
sharp rune
ashen bluff
sharp rune
ashen bluff
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Indeed

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Reason being that the one you used is not guaranteed to keep its name

sharp rune
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okey, ill try

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now i get an diffrent error message:
"Error: Failed to connect to the adapter (Error: SRSP - SYS - ping after 6000ms)
at ZStackAdapter.start (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/adapter/z-stack/adapter/zStackAdapter.ts:103:27)
at Controller.start (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/controller/controller.ts:132:29)
at Zigbee.start (/app/lib/zigbee.ts:60:27)
at Controller.start (/app/lib/controller.ts:101:27)
at start (/app/index.js:107:5)"

ashen bluff
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That's the wrong driver for the E variant. You need ezsp

sour shadow
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If Zigbee2MQTT fails to start, try adding the following to your configuration.yaml

sharp rune
sour shadow
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No need to re-flash

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Just click the link

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Then click on your adapter to see the YAML you need

hexed musk
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Has anyone encountered this error when using external converters in z2m?

Failed to load external converter file 'Bed_Pres_Multi.js' (Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'access'))

I am using a device with custom firmware which had previously been working but after adjusting the firmware and updating the external converter it no longer loads the external converter. I am not sure what the "access" part is referring to.

sharp rune
# sour shadow Then click on your adapter to see the YAML you need

Loads default set of integrations. Do not remove.

default_config:

Load frontend themes from the themes folder

frontend:
themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes

automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml
serial:
adapter: ezsp

i just editet the last to lines - at this point i have no idea how to move on from here. restarted the yaml configs but get the same error

sour shadow
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No... Z2M's configuration.yaml

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These are two completely unrelated pieces of software - just because they use the same filename doesn't mean that you take instructions in the docs of one and apply it to the files of the other 😉

sharp rune
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omfg i seems to work. thank you so much :*
i click left and right an look for thinks that looks like what i need with 10+ browser tabs open to navigate and read about stuff.

sour shadow
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Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast 😉

tropic swallow
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I want to migrate from Sonoff ZBbridge to Sonoff ZBdongle-E (in ZHA). i noticed it wants to replace the IEEE address on the dongle-E. Then if i want to use my ZBBridge again for some reason (maybe in a different setup), how would i change the ZBBridge's IEEE address?

frigid tide
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Hi guys, what would you prefer to use? Zigbee2Mqtt or ZHA? I currently use ZHA and am thinking about migrating to Zigbee2Mqtt. What are you using? Can you recommend Zigbee2Mqtt?

cobalt compass
grim igloo
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Are you saying you installed another instance of haos?

cobalt compass
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no, just the raspi os light and zigbee2mqtt

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and entered the adress of the raspi in Zigbee2MQTT Proxy

grim igloo
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Good stuff

cobalt compass
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but before that i had to set this in the z2mqtt config: homeassistant: true

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its quite easy tho

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if you can get your head around it 😄
but i think it should also work with the stick directly in the server since the devices establish a mesh once connected.

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should have know before lol ponder

grim igloo
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One less thing to manage or break lol

cobalt compass
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but this kind of "projects" is always a good opportunity to learn 🤓

grim igloo
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Sure

cobalt compass
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since i bought 2 sticks by accident 😂

grim igloo
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One can be flashed to router fw

cobalt compass
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1 stick was 35€
2 was 40€

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🤷‍♂️

grim igloo
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It’s sonoff cc2652p right

cobalt compass
cobalt compass
grim igloo
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With z2m it better be

cobalt compass
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no idea, but it works 😄
how can i find it out?

grim igloo
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Z2m will show the full device id

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Or look in tech specs of your ordered items

cobalt compass
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SONOFF Zigbee Gateway, 2 Stück ZBDongle-E USB Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus,EFR32MG21 + CH9102F Zigbee USB-Stick EFR32MG21 Coordinator für für ZHA in Home Assistant or Zigbee2MQTT,Open HAB etc.

grim igloo
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Rip

cobalt compass
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why rip? its working?

grim igloo
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That has beta support for z2m

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Highly not suggested

cobalt compass
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wow, lol

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the more you know

grim igloo
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So move to zha or buy another coordinator

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Sucks lol

cobalt compass
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well no problem to send it back and order the correct one.
i can send it back until 31.01.

grim igloo
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Order sonoff P dongle not E

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Or buy a PoE one instead

cobalt compass
cobalt compass
grim igloo
grim igloo
cobalt compass
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yea, but no 😄

cobalt compass
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oh will be delivered tomorrow

grim igloo
cobalt compass
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together with the aqara stuff smile

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thank you so much @grim igloo
i think that saved me from a lot of potentially headache 😄

grim igloo
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also z2m config will have one line changed when going from e to p dongle. changing adapter: iirc

cobalt compass
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thank you. will bookmark all the stuff 🙂

tardy agate
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Maybe someone can help me building a custom quirk for Sonoff TRVZB?
I generated already a quirk as a starting point with the zha quirk generator. Now I would like to add some custom clusters to it. What is the common way to do it? Any recommendations? Thanks

wild sky
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Currently have issues with the Zbdongle-e not being detectet, and someone in hardware even said its the better one lol

limpid cloud
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Hi everybody, I am currently fighting with Ikea Somrig W2328 button. I read that some people have problems getting it to pair, but mine just acts dead. There is a paring button on the back and a LED that does not blink, no matter what I do (pressing the connect button, pressing the main buttons, holding each for 10 seconds or more). The manual does not describe paring (you're supposed to use the app and OEM hub.

How do I get this thing to pair, and does the LED blink in paring mode?

wild sky
limpid cloud
tropic swallow
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I just got ZBDongle-E and deleted all my zigbee from deconz. After I added sonoff with ZHA, every 10 min or so all devices (specially lights) are unresponsive, i need to reload ZHA to get them working again. any suggestion what can i do?

austere patio
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There's a known issue, should be fixed in tomorrow's release

tropic swallow
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tomorrows what release? ZHA? or HA?

austere patio
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ZHA is part of HA so HA

tropic swallow
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ok. is there anyway to reload ZHA with automaition? I was thinking maybe reload every 10 min 😛

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for the time being

mellow geode
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You could probably use a homeassistant.reload_config_entry service call for that, but maybe you should just wait or downgrade for the time being.

high knot
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I just got a centralite pearl and it seems to be working, my next goal is to buy a temp probe and have the temperature based on that too, however not really sure how i would go about doing that because I only have control over the set temp
is it impossible in this setup

ember dust
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Hey guys. I need some help flashing a Sonoff usb dongle-p with the z-stack firmware. I can't seem to get the device into boot mode. I've held down the boot button while I plugged the device into the computer about 10 times. I've held the button for 10 seconds also about 10 times. Whenever I try to flash with the Texas Instrument flasher, it goes straight to red. I've tried to use the HA Silicon Labs Flasher integration, but that doesn't work either. I need to know what I'm not doing correctly.

high knot
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should i try using zigbee2mqtt or deconz instead of zha?

main ruin
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In theory there is a python script which does all that automatically if their guide is to be believed

ember dust
molten linden
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I have an addon that can flash it. Still have to manually trigger the boot loader by holding the button while plugging it in.

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Link to addon is in the the pins here

main ruin
half jacinth
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I'm hitting some instability after hitting ~80 devices on my network on Z2M. Is there any way to optimize around this or is the best solution to just split off to another Zigbee network to reduce the amount of devices on one?

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Occasionally I get a Buffer_Full error and restarting Z2M fixes it for a bit.

ashen bluff
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Which coordinator do you have? Which firmware? How many routers? What's the exact error message?

half jacinth
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Coordinator: ZBDongle-P" (based on CC2652P)
Firmware: 20230507
Routers: 52

Error:
Publish 'set' 'brightness' to 'Kitchen_Lights' failed: 'Error: Command 2 genLevelCtrl.moveToLevelWithOnOff({"level":150,"transtime":20}) failed (SREQ '--> AF - dataRequestExt - {"dstaddrmode":1,"dstaddr":"0x0000000000000002","destendpoint":255,"dstpanid":0,"srcendpoint":1,"clusterid":8,"transid":16,"options":0,"radius":30,"len":6,"data":{"type":"Buffer","data":[17,116,4,150,20,0]}}' failed with status '(0x11: BUFFER_FULL)' (expected '(0x00: SUCCESS)'))'

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When those crop up, the whole network becomes useless

ashen bluff
half jacinth
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Ah that's a good start. Thank you for pulling that up for me.

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I am noticing the MMW presence sensors I'm using are extremely chatty and could be contributing to this then if it's just an isse of too many messages at once.

ashen bluff
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If you enable debug logging you should be able to see a lot of traffic in the frontend's log. Might help pinning the cause down

half jacinth
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I have two of those presence sensors and they report literally every second or even less, which seems entirely excessive.

ashen bluff
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With herdsman debug logging you get even more but that's pretty much unusable with so many devices and very unlikely to help here.

half jacinth
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gotcha

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Well, somewhat related, any recommendations on a no frills MMW presence sensor? I've tried the Aqara FP1 and now the ZY-M100..

ashen bluff
half jacinth
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okay, Thank you!

boreal hamlet
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why are there very few, poorly reviewed options for zigbee shutter in-wall switches and so many wi-fi ones? Am i searching in the wrong places or is zigbee not suitable for rolling shutters?

fallow iron
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After a power trip, I found that my SkyConnect cannot be connected.

My installation is Proxmox -> Ubuntu VM -> Docker -> Home Assistant -> ZHA

It has been running smoothly for months.

Now, at the point that ZHA is trying to start, I get this error in Ubuntu "cp210x ttyUSB0: failed set request 0x7 status: -32"

And in Home Assistant / ZHA it says "Failed setup, wil retry"
I've tried the following:
revert to Ubuntu VM backup from a few days ago
flash latest firmware for SkyConnect (on another computer)

Does anyone has some suggestion? Thanks!

ashen bluff
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ttyUSB0 is not a reliable name to use for devices. Use /dev/serial/....
We'd need to see your docker config and the output of lsusb -v and ls -l /dev/serial/by-id/ in the VM might also be useful.

cobalt compass
pine swan
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Does anyone know of a Zigbee relay that I can use to switch the heat demand for my gas boiler and can detect if HA has crashed and shut the boiler down if HA has gone away?

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I'm trying to avoid the situation where HA might crash and leave the boiler lit

main ruin
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You could probably build something yourself with an esp32 and an automation if nothing commercial available exists

pine swan
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I was thinking that if there is no suitable Zigbee module. There's an ESP8266 board that's mains powered and has a dry contact relay on Amazon for £12

gusty patio
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if you're willing to compromise on the zigbee, you could probably use the local rules/timer logic in an esphome / tasmota device to do something like "turn off if I haven't gotten an on command in the last 5 minutes" and then have HA keep turning the thing on... i'm a noob but that's probably how I'd do it

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yes

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i'm not sure i'd use any of this stuff where it's safety critical tbh

pine swan
#

IIUC,ESPHome has an automatic "Reboot module if the WiFi has been down or if you haven't heard from HA for 15 minutes." I was thinking make the first thing in the reboot initialization turn off the relay and that should solve it

gusty patio
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yeah that sounds like a solution!

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i've found there are limited-to-none DIY/generic style devices in the zigbee world

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they're all tightly integrated

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i was looking for a zigbee device that would let me connect a standard thermocouple or RTD temp probe but no luck there

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at least not in the toy/aliexpress price range 😛

pine swan
gusty patio
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oh maybe 50c max or something, i just want to put sensors on the pipes for the fan-coil unit in my apartment

tropic swallow
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i got one temperature and humidity sensor, which doesnt report battery percentage (ZHA+Sonoff ZBDongle-E). but others do. all are same model. i repaierd that perticular device twice. but nothing changed. and it was working before with deconz+conbi 2

pine swan
pine swan
tropic swallow
gusty patio
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ahh i’ve seen projects like that, maybe i’ll give it a try. i wanted something with nice screw terminals or a connector but ehhh that’s just gravy

pine swan
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I might get a couple of those for my gun safe and the barrel I store my 3D printer filament in

pine swan
gusty patio
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yeah something like that is an option for sure

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i have a bunch of tuya door and window sensors and they have been absolutely fine. a couple leak sensors too

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i have a bunch of hue and ikea smart bulbs that are always powered so i have a nice strong zigbee mesh

pine swan
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The only devices I've had problems with are crappy scene remotes that run the batteries flat twice a month and Aqara temperature sensors that won't attach to my Ikea bulbs that are the backbone of my mesh

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The aqara sensors update on change rather than a polling cycle and they're notorious for timing out and falling off the network unless you use one of the repeaters they happen to like

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It's a shame, they are really nice and the do pressure as well as temperature and humidity

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They work if I force them to join directly to my Zigbee stick in HA but not via my repeaters

gusty patio
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that’s annoying!

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i haven’t had any bad luck zigbee devices yet, i guess it’s only a matter of time

pine swan
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They do the interview and add fine but they fall off the mesh when they get to their first check in

gusty patio
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i got a couple of the sonoff zigbee smart plugs and they work great too

pine swan
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They also have OTA updates, a web interface with an MQTT diagnostics screen so you can see the message exchanges if you need to debug, not that I ever needed to. They just work.

sour otter
sour otter
pine swan
tropic swallow
pine swan
sour otter
pine swan
sour otter
pine swan
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Did you notice their "Leakproof Guarantee" dissapeared from their ads and packaging a few years ago?

sour otter
pine swan
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A couple of those things were distinctly expensive

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Energizer still guarantee their batteries against leaks

sour otter
#

Well, new batteries , re joined to network, same issue

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It's going back in the box

pine swan
sour otter
sour otter
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And as my controller a flashed sonoff with tasamoto

pine swan
# sour otter Yeah

Have you tried finding your Zigbee stick in devices in ZHA then using the option in there to add the troublesome device directly to the Zigbee stick rather than via a repeater?

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I have a couple of devices that won't work if my repeaters are in the mix

sour otter
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I don't think I can go to my controller to join devices now it's been tasmotized

pine swan
sour otter
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I didnt want to use the EWElink app

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lol it actually got worse

unk_model
by unk_manufacturer
Zigbee info
IEEE: 00:15:bc:00:1a:02:9f:a9
Nwk: 0xd239
Device Type: EndDevice
LQI: 123
RSSI: Unknown
Last Seen: 2023-12-21T14:04:52
Power Source: Battery or Unknown```
grim igloo
cobalt compass
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at the moment i'm struggling a bit with the LQI of some sensors, but i will try to establish a mesh by putting an osram plug in between the "base station" and the sensor with low LQI

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z2mqtt says type: router at the plugs

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the aqara suff is "EndDevice"

sour shadow
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Osram's Zigbee 1.2 stuff is well known to break meshes

grim igloo
cobalt compass
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haha lol ok

cobalt compass
sour otter
compact oak
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Hi, I bought this human presence sensor https://blakadder.com/zy-m100/. I cannot visualise its entities. I configure it via Zigbee Home Automation and the gateway. The product is zigbee

slow saffron
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Hi. I got a freeze outage.
It's the secondary in the cave, then I don't go see it each day.
I would to monitor the temp. Is there a zigbee device for that ?
And I fear it's too far (and under the house). Any advice ?

Alternative I think is to monitor the electricity plug. If down or unplugged I should be able to program an alarm. But it will not monitor the door opened.

main ruin
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I can't really follow, what does the temperature have to do with the electricity or with a door?

There are affordable zigbee temperature sensors which are commonly battery powered. Range wise if there isn't much interference from wifi you may not even need additional mesh routers to cover 10-15m of range.

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You can also get ZigBee sensors to monitor window and door open states if that may help you more

lusty trench
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Hey, using Zigbee2MQTT all devices worked perfectly but since couple off days switches started lagging, and becoming unavailable. What could be the reason? I didn't change anything.

pine swan
pine swan
pine swan
pine swan
bleak current
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Hi,
Im working on a zigbee device with a esp32-c6. I want report electrical consumption so I use the SmartEnergyMetering cluster (0x0702) with attribute current_tier1_summ_delivered. Im able to report this attribute successfully, and I see it in ZHA logs. But in HA, I dont have the entity Tier 1 summation delivered. So I searched on google, and I found on this file
https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/9ba53e03ee3a4915ce1e692bbd77bebb40c5afd8/homeassistant/components/zha/sensor.py#L554
the entity is enable only if the device name is ZLinky_TIC. I tested to rename my device and now I have the entity.
Now I would like rename my device. Is it a way to edit this file to use this entity for any device ?
Thanks

untold needle
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I have a question about the sonoff dongle E or P. Is it fine to have a P as gateway and an E as router?

peak solstice
#

hey there. i want to toggle the area light.livingroom and every device implimented in philips hue toggle, but my globe light in zigbeetomqtt doesnt. ich check the areas and restart ha.
sombody can help?

peak solstice
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or an cheep switch if u want to increase ur zigbee network

untold needle
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I have 104 devices including 38 plugged. I maybe reaching a limit

rocky rose
#

Anyone have sonoff zbminil2?

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Idk what to do.. Its unresponsive but the lqi Is 160

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When i check the map in ZigBee2mqtt Its not connected to my sonoff dongle

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But my plug is 2 meters away from sonoff and its working normal

late orbit
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hi, quick question. new to zigbee, so i don't quite know how it exactly works. let's say i have zigbee bulbs (which are all routers) all throughout my house. when adding them to ZHA, is it best to add them via the main controller, or should i "chain" them by connecting devices to other routers in a chain? that way, further away devices have a chain of connected routers leading them to the controller? i don't know how "smart" the software/controller is, so i'm not sure if this kind of routing is something it does or if it's something i need to do

astral seal
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It should handle all that on its own.

carmine hamlet
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Some devices are smarter than others

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Some won't migrate to a better router/coordinator and you need to help

late orbit
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i'm using a skyconnect, should have added that for context

carmine hamlet
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Doesn't matter. The devices do

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If everything is working, don't worry about it

late orbit
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all of the devices in question are Hue. i'm having a devil of a time getting things to be responsive, so i'm considering re-adding everything by chaining

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devices in the same room as the controller are snappy, devices on the other end of the house sometimes take multiple commands to turn on/off

astral seal
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that's probably caused by interference more than routing issues. Hue bulbs are great routers and at the "smarter" end of the spectrum as far as that goes.

slow saffron
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currently i have few devices.
philips hue bridge and bulbs, 4 nous power plug, 1 linky

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i have problem with nous power plugs already, can't connect from the rear of house 😦 even if 5 meters, but big wall

main ruin
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The connection probably won't be great from the inside out, but between it still working and it not working, that's something you would need to try out.
Adding more devices to the mesh will improve the overall coverage of the network

slow saffron
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on HA, is there a metric to show how the signal is ? and with the hop ? like a traceroute ?

main ruin
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Personally id question why such surveillance of a freezer would be required instead of ensuring it is installed correctly but then I do also not know your living conditions

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Not exactly, if you use zha there is a mesh visualizer

slow saffron
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last time, was an electrician guys that make job on the main electricty panel. he unplugged the freezer ... and forget it 😦

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i saw it too late

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the freezer has integrated alarm with beep, but in the cave i don't listen it, too far

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was really a conjunction of bad moves and luck ... but maybe i could avoid it next time if not too expensive.

main ruin
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If it's just a one off occurrence I don't necessarily see the value of such solution. But in the end smartifying stuff is a nice hobby so I guess yea. Id go with just a temperature monitoring in this instance and see how good the ZigBee stuff works out

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You could also drop in a ZigBee power plug which might greatly increase the mesh strength near the chest freezer

slow saffron
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yes, was a pain to be forced to put all food in trash 😦

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are all powerplug equal in power range zigbee ?
i have nous A1Z because small and have power metrics, but didn't check if signal power matter

main ruin
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I don't think so but I doubt it makes a large difference in general

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The a1z work fine for me so far

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At worst you can just place more in other interesting locations inbetween

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Maybe for a washing machine or something. It's fun metrics

slow saffron
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cave ceiling is made of concrete blocks, walls are millstone (60cm)

main ruin
#

You could probably just bring one of those power plugs down and see if it still works

slow saffron
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yes washing machine is in rear house, where A1Z currently don't connect.
i just plug a linky zigbee connector. which is just up the freezer, maybe possible now

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all devices that are important to monitor are at end place of house 😄 i'm a boring case

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and house is U shape, not the best too

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for wifi i had problems too, need to add repetitors already. all computers at the far end of house ... normal 😄

main ruin
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The more grid powerd nodes you add the better the mesh gets

slow saffron
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yes, and i read that i should try to limit the number of hop. but complicated with computer at the far end.

main ruin
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It should figure out itself

slow saffron
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and need to find usefull devices too. start to be expensive (especially philips bulbs for specific formats)

main ruin
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At worst the signal transmission is slow, but that doesn't really matter for this

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The bulbs won't help you if they are connected to the hue hub and not the network the other plugs are on

slow saffron
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yes, currently i keep bulbs on Hue Bridge, because Philips software is really richer and many more functionnalities

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so many things to do with HA. still not plub google home audio commands to HA

main ruin
#

Else id go for monitoring plugs, that allows for pretty interesting tracking of where your usage patterns cause consumption. Also may help you to figure out where stuff is faulty

slow saffron
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yes, but i know globally : the TV/media block, the internet/computers/NAS block,
after the optional devices, like oven, washing machine, microwave....

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and the Electic Car 🙂

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only one electrical heating in house, then easy to see consumption.

jaunty olive
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Hello all,

is it possible in ZHA to prevent a Zigbee light to rejoin my Zigbee Network all the time? Somehow the zigbee light from my neighbor is connected to my zigbee network and I want to remove it permanent.

Thank you

austere patio
jaunty olive
austere patio
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There's little you can do, unfortunately. If the light has your network key, it's going to rejoin your network every time it boots up. There's currently no way to ignore devices on your network like this.

jaunty olive
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Okay 😦

I read, that in "zigbee to mqtt" it's possible to block zigbee devices. Maybe it will come to ZHA some days 🙂

broken sedge
#

My Zigbee2MQTT devices become slow or unresponsive when using a seemingly unrelated app on my PC, can someone help troubleshoot the issue?

The app is Hyperion (talks with WLED to get ambilight like effects) but that doesn't seem to have anything to do with MQTT, uses different ports so I am blanking on what the issue could be.

leaden nest
#

I asked about this a month ago, and I temporarily solved the issue by deleting some persistent mqtt entries, but I'm hoping for a better solution.

I am getting HA notifications from Z2M saying that my philips hue light strips have an update available. however they do not accept that update. First z2m reports the devices refuse the update, then on retry that there is no new update file available. Seems like a bug somewhere.

sour shadow
#

My Zigbee2MQTT devices become slow or

main ruin
sour shadow
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Nah, use it to send messages in morse code

main ruin
#

"give the neighbor some beer"

shadow orchid
#

yo

#

coordinator: tubezb-cc2652p2-ethusb-2022
issue: after switching to Tailscale, cloudflare DNS, nginx proxy manager and an SSL cert, my coordinator is no longer able to communicate with HASS

current error:

Zigbee2MQTT:error 2023-12-22 16:55:53: Error: Failed to connect to the adapter (Error: SRSP - SYS - ping after 6000ms)
    at ZStackAdapter.start (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/adapter/z-stack/adapter/zStackAdapter.ts:103:27)
    at Controller.start (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/controller/controller.ts:132:29)
    at Zigbee.start (/app/lib/zigbee.ts:60:27)
    at Controller.start (/app/lib/controller.ts:101:27)
    at start (/app/index.js:107:5)
``` when trying to start Zigbee2MQTT
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Coordinator is connected with ethernet, not usb

pine swan
rancid kite
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Hi guys, hoping to get some ideas - running into an issue where it seems that nothing pairs unless i bring it up close and personal next to the coordinator. After pairing I can go ahead and place it next to various routers and it seems to work okay but for that intiial pairing it never seems to work from distance. Is this something common or is it just me and my wonky setup?

ashen bluff
carmine hamlet
shadow orchid
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Oh nvm, i ended up getting zigbee2mqtt to work..it just..sucks.

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I can’t get ZHA to work again since I enabled tailscale

ashen bluff
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The Z2M config and the addon config.

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Are you trying to use ZHA and Z2M at the same time with the same coordinator?

gentle flint
shadow orchid
# ashen bluff Are you trying to use ZHA and Z2M at the same time with the same coordinator?

Was originally trying to use ZHA, wasn’t working. Then switched to Z2mqtt, finally got it working but it had a worse ui and doesn’t properly identify my devices so I wanna switch back to ZHA. I had ZHA working perfectly before I switched from cloudflared to using tailscale and nginx proxy manager. I don’t that that would be an issue because my entire subnet is under the allowed proxies in config, and I can successfully ping my coordinator from within hass

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I just get stuck on “loading next step for ZHA” now then eventually it errors out when trying to setup my coordinator

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I can dm screenshots

gentle flint
shadow orchid
#

I dmd you some screenshots

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It discovers the coordinator

ashen bluff
shadow orchid
#

The Z2M issue was because I didn’t know I had to define a username and password

ashen bluff
rapid dawnBOT
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Please use imgur or other image sharing web sites, and share the link here.

Image posting is blocked in most channels to discourage people from sharing text as images. Sharing text as images assumes that everybody sees the world as you do, which isn't the case. Some people are colour blind, or have visual impairment that means they can't make sense of an image of text.

shadow orchid
#

Pita to do that on mobile.

ashen bluff
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Agreed. It's a pain on desktop too but I don't make the rules.

shadow orchid
#

ShareX is easy on desktop it automatically uploads.

rancid kite
#

Follow up question @carmine hamlet does pairing a new device only happen with the coordinator? Do the routers not accept/relay new device connections?

ashen bluff
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Sure but using an external tool and website when the chat software has the ability to just CTRL+V pictures is kinda stupid but I digress.

shadow orchid
#

Hence why I just dm them.

ashen bluff
#

If you do that all the other lurkers will lack context and usually people don't like to be DMd.

carmine hamlet
rancid kite
#

It seems my routers are not accepting pairing requests then as I have a router right next to several devices I am trying to pair

carmine hamlet
#

You can pair directly with that router

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You have to do it explicitly

rancid kite
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Not sure I've ever done that before, would you happen to have directions?

carmine hamlet
#

In the docs, I'm sure

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In Z2M, you just pull down the join list

shadow orchid
#

Anyone know where ZHA logs are stored?

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I’m getting “unknown error occurred” with no details 💀

frigid idol
#

Need help: my TS110E light switch loses connection

compact oak
#

hi

# 
[10:09:48] INFO: Preparing to start...
[10:09:49] INFO: Socat not enabled
[10:09:50] INFO: Starting Zigbee2MQTT...
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2023-12-23 10:09:56: Logging to console and directory: '/config/zigbee2mqtt/log/2023-12-23.10-09-56' filename: log.txt
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2023-12-23 10:09:57: Starting Zigbee2MQTT version 1.34.0 (commit #unknown)
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2023-12-23 10:09:57: Starting zigbee-herdsman (0.25.0)
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2023-12-23 10:10:17: Error while starting zigbee-herdsman
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2023-12-23 10:10:17: Failed to start zigbee
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2023-12-23 10:10:17: Check https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/installation/20_zigbee2mqtt-fails-to-start.html for possible solutions
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2023-12-23 10:10:17: Exiting...
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2023-12-23 10:10:17: Error: Failed to connect to the adapter (Error: SRSP - SYS - ping after 6000ms)
    at ZStackAdapter.start (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/adapter/z-stack/adapter/zStackAdapter.ts:103:27)
    at Controller.start (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/controller/controller.ts:132:29)
    at Zigbee.start (/app/lib/zigbee.ts:60:27)
    at Controller.start (/app/lib/controller.ts:101:27)
    at start (/app/index.js:107:5)
#

I'm experiencing this error. however, the adapter is connected to the raspberry pi via an extender. before with zha it was working correctly. Now I don't understand why it gives me this error

ashen bluff
#

Please use code blocks. Which adapter are you using?

compact oak
ashen bluff
#

Then you need the ezsp driver

compact oak
#

where can I install it from?

ashen bluff
# 
serial:
  adapter: ezsp
compact oak
#

in mqtt is this OK?

host: 192.168.100.2
user: mqtt-user
password: mypass
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and in serial:

adapter: ezsp```
ashen bluff
#

Looks about right. If you use the mosquitto addon you can leave it empty. See addon docs.

compact oak
#

ok thx

#

Now when I start the addon in the registry it gives me this error:

# 
[10:27:52] INFO: Preparing to start...
[10:27:52] INFO: Socat not enabled
[10:27:54] INFO: Starting Zigbee2MQTT...
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2023-12-23 10:28:01: Logging to console and directory: '/config/zigbee2mqtt/log/2023-12-23.10-28-01' filename: log.txt
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2023-12-23 10:28:01: Starting Zigbee2MQTT version 1.34.0 (commit #unknown)
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2023-12-23 10:28:01: Starting zigbee-herdsman (0.25.0)
Error: Reset error: Error: {"sequence":-1} after 10000ms
    at /app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/adapter/ezsp/driver/uart.ts:299:23
    at Queue.executeNext (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/utils/queue.ts:32:32)
ashen bluff
compact oak
#

I cannot find a resolution

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this is my error: Error: Reset error: Error: {"sequence":-1} after 10000ms

ashen bluff
#

I know, see link.

compact oak
#

but how is it possible that zigbee, quote-unquote the normal one, doesn't work now either.

ashen bluff
#

Not sure what you mean.

compact oak
#

maybe it is better to reinstall everything from scratch. What do you think?

ashen bluff
#

I don't have nearly enough information to suggest anything but it's probably a a waste of time and you learn nothing from it.

compact oak
#

I have tried several. even deleting folders as suggested on some forums

austere patio
compact oak
#

previously i had z2m started with zha disabled and it did not work. now i am trying to reinstall everything

compact oak
#

is this the correct repository?

compact oak
austere patio
#

Why is Z2M's web interface behind Cloudflare?

compact oak
#

because I have my own domain

compact oak
# austere patio Why is Z2M's web interface behind Cloudflare? 
[17:48:10] INFO: Preparing to start...
[17:48:11] INFO: Socat not enabled
[17:48:13] INFO: Starting Zigbee2MQTT...
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2023-12-23 17:48:19: Logging to console and directory: '/config/zigbee2mqtt/log/2023-12-23.17-48-19' filename: log.txt
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2023-12-23 17:48:20: Starting Zigbee2MQTT version 1.34.0 (commit #unknown)
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2023-12-23 17:48:20: Starting zigbee-herdsman (0.25.0)
Error: Reset error: Error: {"sequence":-1} after 10000ms
    at /app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/adapter/ezsp/driver/uart.ts:299:23
    at Queue.executeNext (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/utils/queue.ts:32:32)
#

this is error in logs

austere patio
#

Your adapter isn't communicating. How are you running HA OS? Are you using a VM? Make sure passthrough works. If you say that neither ZHA or Z2M worked, it's a problem with either your device or your USB passthrough.

compact oak
#

I am using a raspberry pi 4 model b

compact oak
#

and I use the extender cable

austere patio
#

The $6 adapter off of Aliexpress being broken is also possible. If you're running HA OS and ZHA can't communicate with it, the adapter isn't working. ZHA tries all of the common settings.

compact oak
#

The adapter was working properly before installing z2m

#

anyway, all this fuss, I'm only doing it to integrate a new device (human precense) but I couldn't with zha

ebon sequoia
#

How did you uncover that his Third Reality plug was the culprit? I'm having a similar issue where all zigbee devices go unavailable for 20-30 seconds every 15 minutes. I enabled logging, and I'm looking through the logs, but not sure what to look for. Thanks!

austere patio
#

@ebon sequoia Your problem is very likely unrelated. Wait for 2023.12.4 to release (probably later today?).

ebon sequoia
#

Will do, thanks!

compact oak
#

I have now configured my zigbee devices via zha

#

and work correctly with that adapter

ebon sequoia
#

Also, one more question. I have a Nortek HUSBZB zigbee/z-wave controller, but I'm looking to move all of the zigbee devices to a SkyConnect controller. Is it possible to migrate the radio but keep the other controller connected for z-wave? Thanks!

austere patio
#

It is. The migration wizard resets the Zigbee half to make sure your old network isn't broadcasting so you can just leave it plugged in instead of removing it

ebon sequoia
#

Awesome! That’s great to hear, thanks!

true forge
#

Hey guys. Ive a problem with my tv05

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its shown as offline

#

i tried to connect it again but the failure is the same

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after changing the home assistant name its online but its not reacting to any settings

tribal wren
compact oak
compact oak
ashen bluff
compact oak
#

sorry

coral mist
#

Hi. I had the misfortune of buying the new version of TRADFRI LED bulb from IKEA, model LED2201G8.
This is what seems to be a newer, more energy efficient version of LED2003G10.

#

Whatever I do I can't make it to pair

#

i'm using z2m 1.34 and sonoff 3.0 with 20221226 coordinator

#

the old bulbs pair without a hitch but the new one does not even register in the logs.

#

i can see the bulb using touchlink, it accepts the reset command, but does not pair, no matter what

#

can anyone help me figure it out?

coral mist
#

I've got yet another problem. after updating everything today, one of the old bulbs started to turn on at brightness 1.

potent zodiac
#

Im adding a Hue bulb to ZHA, the discovery works fine after getting the bulb in pairing mode. However even after it is discovered the bulb keeps in pairing mode. I am able to control it for a while, but after a few minutes it stops working and I can't control it through ZHA. Can't find any similar sitations whilst searching. Anyone have an idea?

tropic depot
#

Can you put the logs from the pairing process on a sharing site so I can peek when I have a second?

lone valley
tribal wren
astral seal
#

Looks like they should work with z2m and ZHA, as far as performance goes I couldn't say personally.

violet dagger
#

They're not the greatest but for 4$ you'll get your money's worth

woeful urchin
#

I'm using them with Z2M pretty successfully, I don't like that they're a non-standard format, at least for North America, ie: they kind of look out of place stuck on the wall next to a light switch. I like that you can code three different options, one-click, double-click or click-hold/release. That last one might count as options 3 and 4 actually.

shadow orchid
#

Finally got my issue fixed of it not allowing my coordinator to connect

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Had to go into the terminal and rm the config/zigbee.db file and reboot HA, then re-pair my lights

shadow orchid
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I had it fully paired once before and working perfectly before

tribal wren
astral seal
shadow orchid
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it was originally showing as Aqara and actually worked right

astral seal
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Weird. I have two, one that I use as a doorbell and one that I use for lights, and I've never needed to mess around with blueprints for them to work.

shadow orchid
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🤷‍♂️ theres multiple reddit posts about it

river umbra
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I use a blueprint with two of those

full anchor
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Looking to start smart home with home assistant. I've been told ZigBee is the best way to go when using IKEA bulbs. I'm trying to avoid buying all the hubs

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Could I get suggestions of what ones to use?

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Is the sky connect the best?

ashen bluff
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Not if you want to use Z2M.

full anchor
ashen bluff
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See the channel topic here. There's different ways to use Zigbee with HA.

full anchor
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What's the best way to use it? I just want to save on all the dumb proprietary hubs

ashen bluff
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Z2M = Zigbee2MQTT: https://i.imgur.com/7vPGLjs.png:
That's very subjective. I use Z2M myself and have little experience with ZHA. The SkyConnect uses a chip that's only experimentally supported by Z2M.
The CC* chips are well supported by each.

full anchor
ashen bluff
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🤷

full anchor
# ashen bluff 🤷

Because it seems to me like the sky connect is the most official and therefore recommended

carmine hamlet
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Then you should enjoy it with ZHA

main ruin
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blakadder has a nice site listing some details about device compatibility with zha/z2m/some others

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If unsure about wether or not something should work with less magic it's a nice place to start

coral mist
coral mist
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there's an issue report on GitHub 😦

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looks like I'm out of luck.

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I'm in the exact same situation as the OP. I can see it with Touchlink, but it just does not register in the logs of z2m

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I'm curious, what should happen if I try to pair an unsupported device?

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should it join the network but be otherwise useless because of missing device deffinitions?

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or should it not join at all or something?

main ruin
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Can we exclude that the new type of bulb just isnt properly implementing the protocol? Touchlink working seems a bit unrelated as that isn't really part of the connected mesh

coral mist
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i can't rule anything out since i'm not familiar with the protocol. but judging on one what one of the commenters on github said, there might be something wrong with the latest firmware.

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i don't know how to do any low level stuff with zigbee

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the guy said "Same problem after firmware of the bulb was updated.
Initially it worked. After the bulb firmware was updated it continued to work.
But when tried to remove device and pair again it always fails to complete the interview."

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might be related, might be not.

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and since it does not show up in the log, i can't even start to diagnose the problem. something would need to be done on a lower level and i don't know if we even have such tools built in to HA

coral mist
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i had to reset it again.

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man. i regret updating. everything was working fine untill i did.

woeful urchin
opaque helm
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Are usb-powered devices considered as routers or not? I assume constant power from usb could make them routers or am I wrong?

ashen bluff
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Depends on the device's firmware but likely

dapper sand
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I've got a couple of Halo zigbee recessed bulbs arriving tomorrow to try out, it'll be my first foray into zigbee.
I've got a SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus-E Gateway plugged into my HA server, and using ZHA.
how many zigbee lights can I expect to be able to run off it? The whole architecture confuses me a bit right now, just from reading about it.
it's an eval between zigbee vs matter over wifi at this point.

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I'm finding matter to be a little flaky to setup but it seems to be fine once running.

opaque helm
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It's all over the house 15x10m and 2 floors

main ruin
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the amount of devices you can directly attach to the gateway may vary depending on the platform to some extend. considering that adding grid powered devices will have it create a mesh of some sort, the answer probably is "enough"

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unless you intend to buy your smart wifi devices exclusively from known good brands like shelly, you are likely not about to have an easy time with them. Among other inconveniences they commonly rely one some sort of online iot platforms which are generally horrible to work with
There is a great variety of zigbee controlled devices and sensors available in various quality and price ranges. As long they stick to the standard they should work without any special hubs required.
Matter/Thread seems like a bit more unstable of an ecosystem right now, mostly because the standards are pretty new in comparison

unkempt cove
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I have a bunch of Sonoff temp/humidity sensors. SNZB-01 and SNZB-02D.

After a while they seem to have some internal issue. Latest is an SNZB-02D. (This was inside, in my son's room).

The -02D shows temp/humdity on the display, it can seemingly see the Zigbee network but won't do temp/humidity values via Zigbee etc. I can reset it, delete it from HA but it won't get through "configuration" - just won't bind to temp/hum/battery etc.

Aside from "they are just low end garbage" any ideas? I also just had a Govee BT one that was outside (but undercover) die as well.

Are there any good temp sensors?

civic sleet
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Hi, any tips on how to get IKEA RODRET dimmer switch to pair with HA 2023.12.3 with Skyconnect and ZHA? I put it next to the Skyconnect dongle, pressed the rear button 4 times, 5 times, 10 times, pressed it very long ... whatever. All the time I only got the "Searching for Zigbee devices ..." screen. Other IKEA devices weren't as finicky, e.g. I got STYRBAR to connect.

mild mulch
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having issues with configuring my sonoff dongle. i get a 504 Gateway Timeout with the only thing in the log being ERROR (MainThread) [aiohttp.server] Error handling request.
Running Core 2024.1.0.dev20231226.

Any fixes or just broken in the latest dev build?

civic sleet
civic sleet
# mild mulch having issues with configuring my sonoff dongle. i get a 504 Gateway Timeout wit...

Not sure if this is actually a Home Assistant issue. You usually get a gateway error if you have this setup: Client <-> Proxy <-> Server. Here your sonoff is the server. And HA is the client. So there is some proxy in between (can also be some firewall, IP masquerading or port forwarding setup or similar). And for some reason, your setup doesn't work on a HTTP level. HA can reach the proxy, but the proxy cannot reach the server (SONOFF).

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Now I have no idea what proxy you have, e.g. Proxmoxx or whatever. But maybe this helps you a bit. I also don't have any SONOFF device personally. If I'm not mistaken, they have a built-in website. Try to reach that website, e.g. also from the command line of the involved entities (like HA ssh terminal, the terminal of proxmoxx or whatever).

mild mulch
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no proxy unfortunately. just spun up a non-dev build of HA and seems to be configuring fine, i guess the issue is definitely with being on the dev build 😭

civic sleet
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"just spun up" ... but how? Could it be that your HA is running by the "spun up" process in a container? Then maybe the forwarding from your PC to the container doesn't correctly work.

mild mulch
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i have 2 pi. one on dev cause it's pi 5 and one on stable on pi 3

civic sleet
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Then check if you can access the SONOFF web interface from the shell of the RPI5, e.g. with curl or wget or links or lynx. If not, you have some networking issue.

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Try also ping / traceroute ... the usual low-level networking things you normally do. Check e.g. if your netmask is correctly, e.g. that all of your devixes have the same (e.g. /24) and not different ones.

mild mulch
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alright thanks 😄 will give it a try

lone valley
ashen bluff
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I'd suggest you restart Z2M and monitor the state with MQTT Explorer and trigger it to see how and when it changes value. It has a history panel.

lone valley
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I have even restarted my whole HA instance and nothing changed

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I have put the legacy setting to false

coral mist
# civic sleet I'm not the only one with this issue, see https://discord.com/channels/330944238...

I also was very satisfied with IKEA products, untill 3 days ago. I own several of TRADFRI bulbs (LED2003G10) and STYRBAR remotes (E2001) and they all worked fine. Few days ago i bought RODRET remote (E2201, works fine), TRADFRI motion sensor (E1745, also works fine) and a new version of TRADFRI 1055lm bulb (LED2201G8, does NOT work). The bulb seems practically identical to the old one except for two differences. It's more power efficient AND cheaper. So i thought to myself "a win win situation". I changed my mind after coming back home. Whatever I do I cannot connect this damn bulb.

ashen bluff
lone valley
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I do run it as an add-on yes

ashen bluff
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Restarting HA does nothing to it. You have to restart the addon.

lone valley
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You kidding me. Restarting the add-on fixed it. Wtf does restarting do? Restarting just boings his head to the wall and comes back without memory or something and fantasizes

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Honestly this makes me laugh. My work is in the IT field. We always say restarting the whole thing fixes most of the problems. Now restarting 1 part of the whole thing fixes it🤣

ashen bluff
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Well it re-reads the config for one.

coral mist
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can someone help me interpret this log output?
Zigbee2MQTT:info 2023-12-26 13:26:49: MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/bridge/response/permit_join', payload '{"data":{"time":254,"value":false},"status":"ok","transaction":"enspk-2"}'
Zigbee2MQTT:debug 2023-12-26 13:27:42: Received MQTT message on 'zigbee2mqtt/bridge/request/touchlink/scan' with data '{"transaction":"enspk-3","value":true}'
Zigbee2MQTT:info 2023-12-26 13:27:42: Start Touchlink scan
Zigbee2MQTT:info 2023-12-26 13:27:52: Finished Touchlink scan
Zigbee2MQTT:info 2023-12-26 13:27:52: MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/bridge/response/touchlink/scan', payload '{"data":{"found":[{"channel":11,"ieee_address":"0x003c84fffec4176b"}]},"status":"ok","transaction":"enspk-3"}'

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what does the "transaction":"enspk-2" stand for?

dapper sand
jolly drum
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Dear readers im running a TS0203 doorsensor, on my pi4 via zigbee2mqtt and a conbee2

Zigbee model TS0203
Zigbee Fabrikant _TZ3000_oxslv1c9

When i activate the sensor i see the true false messages in the z2m log:

Debug 2023-12-26 14:21:54Received Zigbee message from 'Voordeur', type 'commandStatusChangeNotification', cluster 'ssIasZone', data '{"extendedstatus":0,"zonestatus":0}' from endpoint 1 with groupID null
Info 2023-12-26 14:21:54MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Voordeur', payload '{"battery":89,"battery_low":false,"contact":true,"linkquality":255,"tamper":false,"voltage":2700}'
Debug 2023-12-26 14:21:59Received Zigbee message from 'Voordeur', type 'commandStatusChangeNotification', cluster 'ssIasZone', data '{"extendedstatus":0,"zonestatus":1}' from endpoint 1 with groupID null
Info 2023-12-26 14:21:59MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Voordeur', payload '{"battery":89,"battery_low":false,"contact":false,"linkquality":255,"tamper":false,"voltage":2700}'

But the state is not showing up in Homeasistant (it stayes closed), anyone any idea how to fix this?

Kind regards.

opaque helm
jolly drum
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Right it did, how simple can it zigbee, thanks for the simple but working solution. have a great day!

coral mist
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google does not give me ANY results when i search for this.

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which is odd since google almost always spits out some nonesense

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what the hell is enspk-2?

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i can't even find this in github repo

cerulean vale
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Just installed some IKEA Parasol sensors. They worked on first try and seem reliable. Unusual for ZHA

coral mist
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i'm using z2m and had no problems untill this moment.

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the only clue i can go off is the logs (attached above) where my coordinator permits join with this line in the log: MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/bridge/response/permit_join', payload '{"data":{"time":254,"value":false},"status":"ok","transaction":"enspk-2"}'

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but the bulb is only detected with touchlink and responds with MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/bridge/response/touchlink/scan', payload '{"data":{"found":[{"channel":11,"ieee_address":"0x003c84fffec4176b"}]},"status":"ok","transaction":"enspk-3"}'

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i can't find any information about what is enspk-2 or -3

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if i knew i'd have so many problems with this newer bulb, i'd buy the old, less energy efficient and more expensive version to save myself some hassle ;/

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i can accept it will not work win my current setup, but at least i'd like to know why?

wet socket
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Hi All

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Zigbee scenes are no longer working with ZHA?

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I am not able to recall them

austere patio
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Interesting, I wasn't aware scenes are being used. I don't believe anything has changed in a long while that would affect how this works. Can you enable ZHA debug logging and see what happens when you try to recall a scene?

wet socket
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let me do it with the debug on, sec

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according to log everything looks fine

#

I've tried with different groups, different bulbs, same result... very strange...

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with Z2M scenes was working fine.

austere patio
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Downgrade to the last Core version where they worked and see if they start working again. According to the log, the scene recall command is broadcast to group 0x0016.

wet socket
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well... last time i was using ZHA about a year ago. 🙂 migrated from Z2M to ZHA two days ago. 🙂

austere patio
wet socket
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completely new network from scratch

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will try to replug my skyconnect and restart Home Assistant

austere patio
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Did you recreate your old Zigbee groups and such? Group membership is usually cleared when devices re-join.

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As is the scene table

wet socket
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scenes are empty if i am querying the devices directly...

austere patio
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In the future, it's usually better to just start ZHA and pick "use existing network settings". It'll usually map out your existing network in a few hours.

tight ibex
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I've added an IKEA Trådfri remote (with left and right arrows) and the RGB lights. One downside of adding it to z2m is that I have to program the light control logic (on, off, up, down, color selection, etc.). Does it exist anything (like a component) in HA that can set this up in a jiffy so I don't have to program it?

coral mist
tight ibex
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No, the older. But the question still stands for any of the 5 button remotes

coral mist
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the truth is probably no. someone would have to had been in the same situation as you and would also have to decide to create a blueprint and then publish it.

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very unlikely

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when i bought my first TRADFRI bulb and STYRBAR remote combo, i found a blueprint for HA that would replicate the out of the box functionality.

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but i wery unsatisfied witht it so i recreated it by hand with my own improvements in node red

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now it's completely unrecognizable

tight ibex
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I'm migrating my IKEA bridge network to z2m which is awesome in terms of control, but I'm also suddenly required to replicate a lot of the IKEA functionality which isn't in place

coral mist
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i use one button for one bulb including dimmer. that way i can control two bulbs and still retain the temp adjustment

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i get you. this can be a pain in the a...

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if you're already doing it, consider going the blueprint way and publish it for the future users 🙂

tight ibex
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I'd hoped that setting up a zigbee group would resolve it, but no, of course, IKEA haven't done it this way at all

coral mist
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IKEA does a lot of things their way

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for example they have two almost identical bulbs. one works with my HA and Z2M and the other doesn't.

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and i'm pissed cause i don't know why

tight ibex
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I have all automations in node RED, so I'm not very well versed in templates

tight ibex
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It works by binding the IKEA remote control to the ikea lights. Groups doesn't work, but it seems like it works for a few lights individually.

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I did have a crash somewhere, as I lost the bind in the list, but the remote still remained bound to the light, so I had to reset a few lights and remotes.

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Anyways, with this I don't really need to make a template for emulating the IKEA remote

queen ledge
astral seal
#

One coordinator per network. If you're worried about range/strengthening your mesh, router devices like bulbs and plugs will handle that, but if you need a standalone router you can grab the second Sonoff dongle, flash the router firmware, and power it with a USB wall plug or something.

autumn echo
honest dock
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Hello everyone,

I'm experiencing ongoing issues with an IKEA shortcut button in my ZHA setup and would appreciate any advice or solutions.

Initial Connection Difficulty: It took multiple attempts (six times) to initially connect the button to my ZHA network.
Subsequent Unavailability: A day after successful pairing, the button became unresponsive or "unavailable".
Reset Attempts: I've tried resetting the button multiple times (4 presses, 10 presses, long presses) until the LED indicator blinked, indicating a reset. However, the button still fails to complete the configuration stage when re-added.
Battery Drain: There seems to be unusually high battery consumption.

Questions:
Has anyone experienced similar issues with IKEA buttons in a ZHA environment?
Are there any known compatibility issues or quirks with this specific device?
Could there be a step I'm missing in the pairing or configuration process?

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Second issue.

Also, I have an issue with Aqara no neutral wall switch. I bought two of them. And they work okay as a physical switches. But from HA they lags. One of them usually don't work from HA (error: Status.MAC_NO_ACK: 233 and sometimes it blinked red). I collected ZHA logs. Both of them placed near to each other and to cc2652p based zigbee usb stick (egony). I use odroid as a hardware.

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My network have 4 devices. ikea motion sensor works okay mostly but became unavailable sometimes when it's no motion for a while. drive for window works okay too most of times but lags too rarely

final aurora
#

My Sky Connect just arrived and I'm ready to connect all my Zigbee smart plugs that act as light bulbs. 10 motion sensors. 10 temperature humidity sensors and I know it's in beta but my Thread light I have Alexas with Thread too. I know there are a bunch of different apps and some are better than others. If you had to go back what integrations would you use for this purpose? I installed the matter integration but someone in the forums told me that I should use a different app. I want the best compatibility and the best possible quality without stuff dropping off. I have a bunch of smart plugs that act as routers I intend on setting them up first and putting them in all the battery-operated Zigbee sensors.

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Side note is my smart things device useless or can that increase my signal?

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I have Hue lights in every room but I plan on keeping them in the cloud. Because I use sync and I like the scenes. So that will be separate.

stuck echo
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anyone some good recommendations for a zigbee bridge hub or stick that i can connect to a rpi 3b+

dreamy zealot
#

Excuse me please, I'm trying to get started with Home Assistant here, is there anywhere on this Discord (or anywhere else on the internet) where I could ask for help when stuck at 'Failed to connect' whilst trying to set up ZHA Integration on Home Assistant?

I can see my ConBee II USB stick in the operating system at /dev/serial/by-id/usb-dresden_elektronik_ingenieurtechnik_GmbH_ConBee_II_DE2678712-if00 ... but I get no more feedback than 'Failed to connect' when I enter that as the device path in HA's ZHA integration setup modal :\

Huge thanks for any pointers

dapper sand
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victory, got my 1st zigbee device up and running no problem. A halo downlight

dapper sand
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2nd one. woo too easy. Ok, loving zigbee.
am I to understand, I've got one coordinator - a Silicon Labs dongle plugged into HA.
looks like these halo devices are routers
so , they'll build mesh network with each other as I place more lights, they don't all need to be able to reach the router directly.
You can only have one coordinator right? and the coordinator would be the limiter on the number of zigbee devices I can have?

carmine hamlet
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Yes, they build a mesh. Yes, you can only have one coordinator. No, you can also join devices to routers

dapper sand
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I have the Sonoff Plus-E Gateway
it says max direct children 32
what happens when it sees 32 children?
does it only talk to children through routers at that point?
is a child different than a router? or a router also a child?

austere patio
dapper sand
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excellent

mighty river
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I’m in the process of moving from Zigbee2MQTT and I’m starting to regret it, but I’m committed in making it succeed. I’ve got an IKEA remote (Styrbar) and wall light (NYMANE). How do I get them paired within ZHA? I’ve managed to pair the remote, but only a few entities are available and it won’t show me the pressed buttons (unlike the E1812, that will show short and long presses).

tropic depot
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button presses in ZHA are events not entities

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use device triggers to use them or the raw events

rocky rose
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Does anybody have sonoff zbminil2?

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Mine keeps disconnecting i dont know why

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Sometimes i have to turn on off the switch and it works then

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But sometimes doesnt

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Lqi 123 rn

ebon sequoia
elfin flax
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Experiencing the exact same issue here after updating to 2013.12.4 unfortunately. Following to hopefully be able to fix it asap

shadow tartan
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I'm seeing really low LQI on a few of my devices. But they still seem pretty responsive.

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I guess I just shouldn't be too concerned about stuff like that until there is a reason to be.

ashen bluff
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really low
Can you share some numbers?

shadow tartan
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Two are under 100. One is 80 and the other is 42.

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I'm still a newbie so I don't really understand how bad that is.

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both are going through a zigbee plug that is somewhat nearby

tropic depot
tropic depot
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what matters is do the devices work

shadow tartan
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They do, but it's like human nature to be bothered by numbers that probably don't matter lol

ashen bluff
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Note that the value can be calculated differently by different manufacturers as well.

shadow tartan
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Does Zigbee self heal? Just wondering since I moved a button to a new spot kind of far away.

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It's still connected to a plug that was over there. But now they're not all that close anymore.

ashen bluff
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Some devices are "sticky". IIRC aquara's 1.x devices are one of them. Most others should usually find their route within 24 hours.

tropic depot
shadow tartan
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Oh okay. The device in question is an Aqara wireless mini switch.

tropic depot
shadow tartan
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I'll keep an eye on it and see if it changes.

ornate vault
molten linden
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@ornate vault following that guide for the port entry use tcp://ip_address:6638

ornate vault
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i've tried a few combinations, but i must be doing something wrong. when i go to my zigbee2mqtt configuration, i've got a few sections with config textblocks - socat, mqtt, and serial. which one should i place it under and do i put the serial: with it?

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it'll start for a second and when i try to access the webui it says addon seems to not be ready, would you like to retry and clicking retry doesn't work. when i click no, it takes me back to the zigbee2mqtt page and shows it's stopped

ashen bluff
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Check the addon logs but in the editor you would omit the sections. So for serial you'd do

port: tcp://ip_address:6638

rather than

serial:
  port: tcp://ip_address:6638

Same for mqtt and so on.

rapid dawnBOT
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@ornate vault I converted your message into a file since it's above 15 lines :+1:

📎 message.txt
ashen bluff
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I would expect a mention of znp there if it uses a network coordinator. I might be wrong though. I don't work much with them.

molten linden
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Not needed

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Make sure zha isn’t enabled by accident. Only one thing can access the coordinator at a time.

ornate vault
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nope, zha isn't listed under integrations

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in integrations it shows tubeszb-cc2652p7-poe-2023 under discovered, but when i click configure it asks for a serial device path and i'm not sure what to put there.

i tried the port: tcp://ip:6638, but no luck. tried it without port: in front as well

molten linden
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If you want to use zigbee2mqtt then just ignore the discovered device

ornate vault
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gotcha, i wasn't sure if maybe that had something to do with the issue i'm facing. i would like to use zigbee2mqtt based on the things i've read about it

molten linden
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If zigbee2mqtt is failing like that you can try and reflash the esp32 firmware to the device as that has been the most reliable fix for the error you are seeing. But I’ve also not heard of this happening with a brand new device in some time (I’m TubesZB) if it isn’t obvious

ornate vault
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ha, i figured you were. pretty awesome you browse this discord

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and yeah, just came in the mail about an hour ago

molten linden
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You could also just try ZHA and see how it goes. 🤷🏼‍♂️

ornate vault
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i have a feeling it's probably something i setup incorrectly and not the device itself

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mqtt seems to run, so i'm assuming that's working

molten linden
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The flashing isn’t super hard, that SRSP - SYS - ping after 6000ms is a pain as it could mean a bunch of thing but I think essentially it means it’s not able to talk to the radio.

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If it was configured wrong I don’t think you’d get that.

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I use ZHA and am happy with it, and it’s easier to just get going I think, as not as many pieces if starting from scratch.

ornate vault
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let me try that out and see how it goes

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what should go under the serial device path? when i looked that up earlier, i was seeing people putting usb ports, but didn't see any examples for ip

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other than the port: tcp://ip:6638 example

molten linden
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socket://ip:6638

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Radio type znp

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115200 baud rate

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And software flow

ornate vault
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thanks for your time. i appreciate the help. looks like zha found it just fine. going to see if devices work with it

ebon sequoia
austere patio
torpid dew
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Hello guys, can anyone help me with a problem regarding Deconz and aqara P1. cant seem to change the reset time of the sensor. If i change the duration setting in HA it will only change the update time of HA not the sensor

cerulean flicker
#

Hi! I have a Yale door, that I bought a Zigbee thingy fore.. but I do wonder if it's possible to set pin codes for my whole family true home assistant or do I need to do this on the lock? I'm a bit confused on how it works directly on Zigbee

rocky rose
#

Is there a difference between USB 2.0 extension or 3.0?

lavish grove
#

Hi, I have a ZHA issue that is fairly easily reproduced on my particular set up: 1) Restart HA (or reload ZHA) and then run "Download diagnostics". 2) It works fine. 3) Wait a minute or two and try it again: Failed to serialize to JSON: config_entry/bd15ef695cfdf244bf2b96a4b557fc06. Bad data at $.application_state.network_info.nwk_addresses<key: 00:17:88:01:0b:36:04:23>=00:17:88:01:0b:36:04:23. Is that worth raising an issue for, do you think, is that probably just some wonky device on my network? I have 38 devices and I'm using a custom quirk for one: a Moes house thermostat.

hollow patrol
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Can anyone give me some advice on Migration with Zigbee2MQTT - Moving from Skyconnect to the Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 - P version dongle. I have seen some posts saying this is possible without a repair of everything but the Z2M wiki seems to say otherwise (if I am reading it right). Its a move of EFR32MG21 -> CC2652P. What would be my best approach to make it as painless as possible?

ebon sequoia
solar sluice
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Hey, everybody
I'm trying to write a quirk for Sonoff SNZB-06P (their latest mmWave presence sensor)
what I would like is to do is:

  • remove motion entity (it's non-functional) (done)
  • add access to occupancy timeout (done, kinda, via virtual AnalogOutput cluster on the virtual endpoint, but it works)
  • add access (read-only) to the latest captured illuminance state (dark/bright)
  • add access to a sensitivity setting (in case of this device controlled by the "ultrasonic_u_to_o_threshold" standard Zigbee attribute and allows values 1,2,3 - Low,Medium, High)

Access to occupancy timeout seems to work but looks kinda hacky. Is there a better way? We're talking about a standard attribute "ultrasonic_o_to_u_delay" for OccupancySensing cluster with a manufacturer-specific limitations (minimum value that may be set is 15)

A read-only access to the last captured illuminance state was made by creating a BinaryInput-derived cluster. It created a 'binary input' entity in HA and it shows the right thing, but I wanted to provide an adequate name for it and didn't find a proper way.

How to describe a sensitivity in the quirk so that ZHA would "automagically" create an enum-based selector entity for it?

Maybe someone from the more experienced devs could provide some pointers for me as to where to look or what to read, that would be cool
repo link: https://github.com/theorlangur/zha-device-handlers/tree/sonoff_snzb06p

ashen bluff
rocky rose
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People have 3.0 without a problem

winter cove
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I'm trying to trigger an automation by MQTT from a z2m device. It sends the state
{"action":"disarm","action_code":"1234","action_transaction":46,"action_zone":23,"battery":100,"battery_low":false,"linkquality":255,"tamper":false,"voltage":6400}
I can't figure out what to put into payload to only triffer on action: disarm

ashen bluff
rocky rose
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Is 5m ok or is that too Long ?

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Not sure what to get 3m or 5m

ashen bluff
rocky rose
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I have 2m extension but i just can't get anything working

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Might be because the cable is not shielded? Idk

ashen bluff
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That's quite vague.

rocky rose
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The devices pair And they work (on/off) but then i can't turn them off or on ZigBee2mqtt saying can't get lqi signal

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It worked for like a day then it stopped if i pair them they work for couple min and then im done

ashen bluff
rocky rose
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Sonoff dongle E

ashen bluff
rocky rose
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I man there is alot of WiFi interference

ashen bluff
rocky rose
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English Is not my main language 🤷

ashen bluff
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Mine neither but we're here to learn and share that knowledge, right?
There ought to be a channel that will work better. I'm not convinced the issue is due to interference though.

rocky rose
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The dongle Is like 1m from my router And PC

ashen bluff
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Do you already have a lot of devices paired?

rocky rose
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Im starting so i only paired 3

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Untill i get it working i wont pair more

ashen bluff
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You could try if the same issue occurs with ZHA. It should support that coordinator better. I'd check the things here first through: <#zigbee-archived message>

rocky rose
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Smart plug, PIR sensor and sonoff switch

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I also tried switching ZigBee channels but nothing

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But the PIR sensor always works never stopped

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But the plug and sonoff zbminil2 can't turn them on or off

ashen bluff
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Well you have some things you can try now, let me know your results.

rocky rose
ashen bluff
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Depends on the antenna, elevation, surroundings, etc, but a little bit elevated is probably a good idea.

rocky rose
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Ok

rocky rose
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Publish 'set' 'state' to 'Světlo chodba' failed: 'Error: Command 0x84ba20fffecd9d33/1 genOnOff.on({}, {"sendWhen":"immediate","timeout":10000,"disableResponse":false,"disableRecovery":false,"disableDefaultResponse":false,"direction":0,"srcEndpoint":null,"reservedBits":0,"manufacturerCode":null,"transactionSequenceNumber":null,"writeUndiv":false}) failed (Timeout - 4044 - 1 - 13 - 6 - 11 after 10000ms)'

rapid dawnBOT
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ashen bluff
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I don't have much more suggestions than what I said above at the moment. I don't trust this coordinator to work well with Z2M.

rocky rose
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Is just disabling z2m enought ? To try zha

ashen bluff
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Yeah, just stop the addon and disable auto start.

steel kraken
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Hey everyone, Today I got some aduroSmart Eria spots GU10. I have a ZigBee 3.0 stick and am trying to connect them but the stick wont discover them. I have same Aqara sensors connected aswell and they connect and work fine.

ashen bluff
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a ZigBee 3.0 stick
Which model? Which software (see channel topic)?

steel kraken
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SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus V2, So I assume im using zha

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I now see that maybe zigbee mqtt wil do the job. Just testing now

sour shadow
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Your spots don't seem to be supported by Z2M

earnest hinge
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maybe you just didnt put it into pairing mode? i mean it should atleast be discovered even if it doesnt work

steel kraken
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jup put them into pairing mode maybe 5 times now

sour shadow
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Assuming it's within reach of the mesh...

steel kraken
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its about 7 meters so it should be 😦

sour shadow
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Seven meters of air?

steel kraken
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jup, almost no walls inbetween. About 1 meter from the first spot is a sensor that works fine

sour shadow
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"almost"?

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There's either walls, or no walls

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Or is your house falling down?

steel kraken
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🙂 no there are 2 stone walls inbetween, inhouse walls so nothing that holds back the signal. and if you move eyesight 20cm you have a clear line of sight to the stick

rocky rose
sour shadow
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Those will do a great job of signal blocking

ashen bluff
sour shadow
rocky rose
steel kraken
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oki then just in case I will try to move the zigbee stick closer

sour shadow
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Buy some router devices

earnest hinge
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or put a smartplug in the floor between the rooms or something

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hallway

rocky rose
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That the WiFi scan

earnest hinge
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is this a bulb or like a spot light/lamp?

ashen bluff
rocky rose
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The zbminil2 just started working again lqi 140

sour shadow
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Channel 26, if you're not in North America, and your devices support it, may not suck totally

rocky rose
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eu

sour shadow
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It pains me to say that Z-Wave may be a better option

rocky rose
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So there is a huge interference by the wifis right

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Changed the Channel to 26 🤷 Will see now

sour shadow
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Yeah, your problem isn't helped by all the idiots using 40 and 80 MHz channels

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The "joys" of city life

rocky rose
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So basically what are you saying that if channel 26 wont work im done?

steel kraken
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wow, I just also bought a smart plug today and I tried it. And indeed it instantly detected the spot. I did not think the zigbee signal could be that weak. Or the spot has a weak receiving end. BC i have 1 sensor 50cm away that is connected fine

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thx for the advice!

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I now get why you where so precise about the walls Tinkerer. would not think that would have been the case! THX

sour shadow
sour shadow
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So are wood, concrete, and brick

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Plus obviously metal and water 😉

earnest hinge
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you wont have that sort of problems in a modern building

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🙂

rocky rose
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It was before for like a day but nothing Now

sour shadow
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Those aren't great router devices

rocky rose
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But the zbminil2 Is like 5m Away from the dongle

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And Its on lqi 0 again

sour shadow
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And... they're not great router devices

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Really, they suck... just not as badly as Osram

rocky rose
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What Is not great router device ?

sour shadow
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The Sonoff

rocky rose
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Dongle E?

sour shadow
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No, the ZBMini

rocky rose
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Or P also

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Its not router device

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Its without N

sour shadow
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Ah... that's "good" then 😄

rocky rose
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I have two switches next to each other

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Under one Is sonoff connected to the dongle and under the othet switch is tuya switch from Aliexpress

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Connected to the tuya gatweay rn

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Both ZigBee

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Can that be the problem also ?

earnest hinge
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sure adds to it id say

earnest hinge
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would using recharbale batteries in a trv throw off its battery charge indicator?it seems they all drop down to 30% or below within a day or two, and some of them would then sit on 5% for days and still work and then suddenly not work anymore, despite the batteries still reading 1.25v on my multimeter when i take them out.

austere patio
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Rechargeables hover at 1.2V most of their lifetime while alkalines drop steadily from 1.5 to 1.0

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So a fully-charged NiMH looks like a half-dead alkaline to a device that assumes it takes alkalines

stable monolith
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Has anyone configured ZG-205Z/B via ZHA? It paired immediately but the only sensors were Illuminance and Motion, no Presence or Occupancy or the like. And even as a motion detector it performed miserably. Apparently sensitivity can be adjusted via the Smart Life app if you have a Tuya hub, which I do not.

keen merlin
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Recommendation for a sensitive vibration sensor ?

keen merlin
sour shadow
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Oh, agreed, it just costs a lot more, and you've got less choice about hardware

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Don't want to think about how much more it'd have cost me to do my Zigbee setup as Z-Wave

earnest hinge
keen merlin
sour shadow
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Eh... I've got zero issues here with my Zigbee stuff, other than when batteries go flat

earnest hinge
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so are 1.5v lithium rechargables the way to go then? or should i just go with alkaline batteries?

keen merlin
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I use both Z-Wave and Zigbee. At my home the Zigbee RF channels run 75+% occupied. I use ch 25 to minimize the interference but I still get Zigbee lights and switches that fail to turn on/off. I use Z-wave for critical things like door locks entry sensors, leak sensors, water shutoff valve, etc.

austere patio
sour shadow
keen merlin
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Then I wouldn't need cameras or Battery backed Zigbee repeaters. I live in the suburbs ... not that congested but see 20+ wi-fi APs

earnest hinge
# austere patio Are your devices dying with the rechargeables?

the main problem is that they sit at like 5% for a long time and then suddenly dont work anymore. and they go down to that very quick in like a few days. so its totaly unpredicateble when to change them out. i guess its not too bad for radiator valves but still kinda annoying. I think the manual explicitly says to not use rechargable batteries, so i guess its totaly my fault for trying to use them with that

austere patio
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The manufacturer probably set the cutoff threshold really high. You can use the lithium ones or try another valve. Some devices work better than others with them

keen merlin
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Motors have high current draw that will cause a low lithium voltage to drop out of spec

marble parcel
spare mural
naive torrent
keen merlin
spare mural
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Heh, I was thinking what someone needs to make is a charger that uses a thermoelectric module to create electricity from the radiator (like those fans you attach to the chimney of a wood burning stove) to charge the valve

earnest hinge
naive torrent
marble parcel
naive torrent
bitter pumice
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The Zigbee cluster "genLevelCtrl" supports the Move command which, together with Rate, will change the brightnes at a give rate.
Zigbee2mqtt exposes this zigbee functionality by publishing a message to zigbee2mqtt/FRIENDLY_NAME/set

I want to integrate this into my automations and I am wondering if Home Assistant has an abstraction of this functionality through a service (the light.* services do not seem to support it), or if I have to use the Zigbee2Mqtt message abstraction directly.

sour shadow
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Transition does what you're after

rocky rose
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And paired tuya switch and plug

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Both working fine now

bitter pumice
# sour shadow _Transition_ does what you're after

Transition seems to be a way to say: I want to get to brightness X, and it should take Y seconds. In my case, I do not know the desired state that I am transitioning towards, so it's hard for me to say how long it should take. Specifically, I am cooking up a simple "hold to increase/decrease brightness" automation. If I just set the desired state to be either 0 or 255, depending on the direction, I would have to do some calculation to find the desired transition time for the rate to always be consistent. Or am I missing something about this?

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the genLevelCtrl move command simply just starts transitioning at a given rate until it hits either 1 or 255

sour shadow
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Then you can use HA's MQTT publish service

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For a hold to change brightness I'd just use transitions and delays

bitter pumice
sour shadow
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Not really, HA only abstracts common features, and that wasn't common enough to make the cut (at the time)

bitter pumice
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Thank you for the clarification. I will read the link you provided and see if there is anything I could have done better, since I am not using scenes for this today, but simply just sending the brightness_move command on hold begin with a positive or a negative value, and stopping it again on release. It's very simple and works extraordinarily well and gives a very smooth dimming experience.

shadow orchid
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Need recommendations for a zigbee switch

grim igloo
shadow orchid
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FIFTY DOLLARS

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GAH DAYUM BOI

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but ooh pretty lights

lapis copper
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Hi there. Currently running ZHA, but looking to swap to Zigbee2MQTT and wanted to see if there is a best practice of how to run Zigbee2MQTT? I am currently running HAOS as a VM within proxmox, then I have my MQTT broker setup (using EMQX) as an LXC on proxmox. Is it best to run a LXC on proxmox for Zigbee2MQTT, or to install it via the add-on repo inside of HA?

carmine hamlet
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Z2M doesn't work well with EMQX

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I saw all kinds of flakiness and went back to Mosquitto, and I'm not alone

lapis copper
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Ah I see.

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Same question with mosquito I guess then?

carmine hamlet
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It's up to you. I like running and managing my own Z2M container, where I can update whatever and whenever I want. Or you can run the addon

lapis copper
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Ah k. Wasn’t sure if there was a best practice. Thanks!

inland flare
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any anyone here that can help fix my heating?

summer thicket
lapis copper
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@summer thicket thats promising to hear. Ill probably give it a go first. Really like the logging / interface of EMQX so far

summer thicket
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@lapis copper setting up Zigbee2MQTT in its own LXC is a good practice,. The advantage of this setup is that if Home Assistant goes down or experiences issues, your Zigbee network can continue to operate independently.

inland flare
lapis copper
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Makes sense ... But isnt that kind of useless? Since HA is controlling the zigbee devices? Or is there another use of devices i am not thinking of? So far im ~50/50 Zwave to Zigbee.... Only some lights and motion sensors

inland flare
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but its the same 😛

summer thicket
carmine hamlet
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Fortunately, it's easy to switch back and forth. But HA can only connect to one broker, so everything needs to connect to one or the other

shadow tartan
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Looked at my logs and saw this "Zigbee channel 25 utilization is 92.96%!"

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I've only been using Zigbee for 2 weeks. Is this as bad as it looks? 😬

mellow geode
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It means there’s quite a bit of interference. Put your coordinator on a USB extension cable if you haven’t done so already.
You can find the interference/utilization numbers for all channels when downloading the ZHA integration diagnostics file and then scrolling to the bottom of it.

shadow tartan
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Okay, thanks

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Looking at it now....yeah I don't understand any of this yet lol.

bitter anvil
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Hello,

Does anyone knows how I get the '$SYS/broker/load/messages/received/1min' topic value available in HomeAssistant?'

remote plaza
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Hi, I have a Tradfri LED. I'm struggling to get it connected, any thoughts? I simply plugged in my bulb and then added device but nothing. Adding as a normal zigbee device. I don't have a Tradfri controller but do have a zigbee USB Dongle

upper coral
remote plaza
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Ah ok, someone sent me here from hardware!

upper coral
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Oh maybe i'm wrong then

trail gorge
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can the phillips hue smart socket be used as a router?

trail gorge
upper coral
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Hi guys. So i started with a fresh HA installation. Now i have Aqara motion sensors that i successfully have added to Zigbee2MQTT. Tho i've missed something because those sensors won't show as entities in HA. Anyone what knows the issue?

upper coral
limpid cloud
remote plaza
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thanks for your help, I think the problem was I had a Tradfri remote control and it was automatically connecting to that throwing out the zigbee connection (perhaps). Regardless all is working nicely now and I don't need to return all my four new bulbs!

trail gorge
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After manually getting the battery value on one of my ikea remotes, I got a "200", then for some reason all the other remotes also gave 200 in their auto updates since they all updated to that too, except one that has 180%

Any ideas?

mellow geode
austere patio
trail gorge
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Ah, but why would ha show it as 200 as well?

austere patio
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Because it thinks it's talking to the old remote. The quirk can't tell the two apart.

trail gorge
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It showed fine before though, all I did was manage zigbee device -> battery percentage -> read

Could that have somehow switched it to the other remote?

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It also switched all my ikea remotes, not just the one

trail gorge
mellow geode
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Can you clarify?

upper coral
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Layer 3 networking

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DHCP server

mellow geode
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In Zigbee terms, a "router" is a mains-powered device that "repeats" the messages from other devices.

upper coral
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Oh oeps, uuhm

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😅 im so sorry lol

mellow geode
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All good. (Coordinator is your Zigbee stick, routers are mains-powered "repeaters" and end-devices are battery-powered sensors mostly)

trail gorge
mellow geode
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It'll work as a router/repeater, yes

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all mains-powered Hue devices do

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Most other mains-powered devices do too, except Sengled bulbs (and Aqara FP1 sensors, probably some more exceptions)

solar sluice
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Hi
Does anybody know a way, given a zigbee group entity, to get that group's id in the template?

trail gorge
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I'd love to get a bit of education too, my conbee II for example is rated for 20~ devices

What does that even mean? I have about 40, most of them are inactive most of the time e.g magnetic door sensors

Do I actually need extra routers? I already have 3 zigbee bulbs that act as routers, how can I figure out how many routers I need for what amount of devices?

Someone here mentioned at one point based on my log that my network seemed to have too many sensors

This is a visualization of my network if it helps at all: https://imgur.com/a/TB8EJgy

solar sluice
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I would like to use that afterwards in a 'zha.issue_zigbee_group_command' service call

grim igloo
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i set it up with batteries before i noticed the charger and it paired as a router device

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does it just drain them like crazy acting as a router when not plugged in?

mellow geode
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Okay, I‘m not sure about the Aqara feeder. But I’m pretty sure it can’t change function depending on if it’s battery or mains powered

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The Hue Go (1st Gen, 2nd Gen) (probably also 3rd Gen) do all act as a router, even when on battery though

mellow geode
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If everything works fine, then no, you probably don’t need more routers.

pearl flame
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Hey. I have HA OS setup running in VM under TrueNAS scale. I have passed whole USB adapter to that VM. Adapter is connected to USB powered hub, with zb stick there are UPS and nanoCUL both running like a charm. But my coordinator is driving me nuts. I know that it is recommended to define port in z2m config via "/dev/serial/by-id" but problem is ``` DEVLINKS: >-
/dev/serial/by-id/usb-1a86_USB_Serial-if00-port0
/dev/serial/by-path/pci-0000:00:07.0-usb-0:2.1:1.0-port0
DEVNAME: /dev/ttyUSB0
DEVPATH: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/usb3/3-2/3-2.1/3-2.1:1.0/ttyUSB0/tty/ttyUSB0
ID_BUS: usb

DEVLINKS: >-
/dev/serial/by-id/usb-1a86_USB_Serial-if00-port0
/dev/serial/by-path/pci-0000:00:07.0-usb-0:2.4:1.0-port0
DEVNAME: /dev/ttyUSB1
DEVPATH: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/usb3/3-2/3-2.4/3-2.4:1.0/ttyUSB1/tty/ttyUSB1
ID_BUS: usb

They are same for both devices
remote wyvern
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I'm considerung to by a Aeotec Multipurpose Sensor IM6001-MPP to be connected to my ZHA setup.
But I'm told that ZHA does not support all features of the device (while Zigbee2MQTT does).
I'm a software developer so I thought I might enhance the quirks myself. But I am unable to find "real" documentation on how to do this.
https://github.com/zigpy/zha-device-handlers#building-a-quirk tells me the basics, but that's not enough for me. In my case eg I wonder what the X/Y axis sensors should be mapped to, etc
Are there some docs or tutorials I have missed?

pearl flame
tame helm
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So according to ZHA visualization, my zigbee mesh is a mess

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manually placed them in the visualization according to their approx location in the house, some of the motion sensors and switches are connected to far away bulbs (routers) for apparently no reason. They seem to still however work.

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Aren't the mesh supposed to optimize/heal itself over time, having a switch connect to a router in the opposite end of the house seems pretty stupid when there's a bulb (router) like 2 meters away.

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Like the motion sensor on the far left is like 1 meter from the bulb it's placed next to on the visualization, but it chooses to connect to a bulb in living room that is approx 15-20 meters away thru several walls

tame helm
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I havn't upgraded the firmware on my Sonoff Zigbee stick (P version), since i got it quite a while ago, it's running:
Firmware: Z-Stack 20210708
Would upgrading the firmware potentially improve the way the coordinator works or what exactly decides what connects to what in the mesh?

ashen bluff
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What are you trying to fix?

tame helm
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it works, but i assume the bad mesh is the reason there's a kinda stutter when i do big service calls. Like i have an automation that will turn off all lights if everyone leaves the house, the entire house is supposed to fade down bulbs over 10 seconds. It works, but theyre stuttered seconds apart sometimes.

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Sometimes switches wont work first time i push them, then i can wait a few seconds and push again and it reconnects or something and turns on the light etc.

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Just not optimal for some reason.

ashen bluff
tame helm
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What is that link supposed to go to? Think my discord is bugging, it just scrolls to some random chat message not related to healing or anything else related to this?

molten linden
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It goes straight to a discussion about healing 🤷🏼‍♂️

tame helm
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Not for me, goes to some messages about socket and tcp setup and zigbee2mqtt

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Only thing kinda related to this is a link to a flashing guide of some other stick

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Ohh well just tested on phone, it works there...
But yeah the network is far more then 24 hours old, it's been running for a few months now without changes. And have just gotten tired of it being semi-flaky at times and the visualization showing the mesh being super weirdly paired

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I guess i just gotta try the hard way maybe... And unpair everything and then connect each thing with the connect thru... function to force it to connect the first time thru a specific router

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Just weird that as example one switch for some reason have had decided that the 3 bulbs close to it are not worthy of being a router, but another bulb in freakin Narnia (other end of house) is.

molten linden
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You can try and re-pair through the closest routing device. Doesn’t mean it will stay there. Sometimes the closet device doesn’t have the best rf signal. I have hue br30s in recessed cans, can pair a blind 3 feet away and it never stays with it for example.

hybrid cloud
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Any time I have errors with is the SL multiprotocol addon, it tries to restart zigbee and seems to fail and give up, but a manual restart will fix it. Is there something I can do to fix or alleviate this problem?
https://dpaste.org/a3aVY

lime locust
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I have one zigbee candle bulb that has a mind of its own , turns on randomly and is not tied to any automation , is re-pairing the same as a factory reset ?

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when it turns on by itself, state is not displayed in HA

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defective bulb , or ?

bold cape
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Hi, i have a Tradfri E1810 Ikea remote control, if i buy a CC2531 dongle could i connect them? Could work in HA?

grave ginkgo
steel kraken
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howdy, have got a question. Does anyone here have experinece with adurosmart eria zigbee GU10 spots? I just got them but I am kinda dissapointed by the amount of green and red the light emits when its at a 2700K setting.

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does anyone here know zigbee light except HUE that have a clear RGBWW color schema without other colours leaking?

carmine hamlet
remote plaza
remote plaza
mighty sage
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👋 Hi! I'm new to Home Assistant, and trying to pair my first Zigbee device to my Home Assistant Yellow: the Aqara Mini Switch. I've held the reset button for 3-5 seconds, and the blue led flashes on the device, but I'm not seeing anything when doing "Add Device -> Add Zigbee Device". I've tried multiple times now, but am having zero success.

Can anyone help?

remote plaza
sudden yarrow
grim igloo
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Do the button every second once it starts pairing

mighty sage
main condor
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I need some with my Conbee 2 in Proxmox on a NUC please..
HA keeps losing the connection to my zigbee devices. (Running zigbee2mqtt)

It worked for a while but suddenly i have to restart al the time to get my devices back on..

grave ginkgo
grim igloo
grim igloo
summer thicket
grim igloo
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Oh even better.. good catch