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regal pumice
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My only issue is actually my fireplace and the ir blaster

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On/off is the same button thus the same ir code.

I need a way to almost accurately turn it on or off

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I already tried appending the service call to my lights on via motion sensor automation.

It can become out of sync

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What trigger method could I use here

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Ohhhh

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Couldn't I use a smart plug with power monitoring?

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Check if current is being drawn and use that to know if the fireplace is on or off

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The ir blaster being the toggle

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I might not be able to do thus though due to the placement of the plug

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Smart plug won't work without taking the unit down

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Hmm

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What about a vibration sensor?

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Wouldn't it pick up vibrations from the motor in most cases of it's on?

wintry bramble
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What's the rules on promoting sellers? I can't see an explicit guidance, but there's a pretty good lightning deal on Sonoff sensors in my inbox today (UK). Picked up a pack of 2x Door sensors for £12

echo osprey
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Hi I'm trying to integrate an unsupported tuya device to zigbee2mqtt it's a tuya device which i couldn't get running

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

📎 message.txt
lime spear
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can 2-3 zigbee2mqtt's talk to the same broker with same topic or do i need unique? I've got 2 poe poe coordinators im merging to, one in the shed so 2 main networks and an existing network to transfer from (So i can do high availability in a sense).

molten linden
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yes, just change the base topic. z2m has docs on this

elfin tangle
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Which brand and model is that zigbee power strip you found called? I can't find any zigbee power strip on my side

shell frigate
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It adds to HA as one device with individual entities for the 4 outlets and even one entity that switches the USB ports on and off

elfin tangle
uncut yoke
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i have a HUSBZB-1 and want to start using zigbee2mqtt, should i upgrade the zigbee adapter to something else or is it supported? I also had the issue that my IKEA buttons die really quickly and sometimes refuse to signal a button press even with a new button. currently using ZHA

austere patio
uncut yoke
tepid gorge
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I might have made a mistake but I will double check with all of you. I bought a set of zigbee devices for our cabin and configured all of them at home. Now when I’m in place and start putting the devices in place I notice a lag. Is there a way to rebuild the network from within zigbee2mqtt? So that the mesh is optimized?

graceful tiger
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Total noob here. I'm having trouble with aqara door/window sensors. So far all I have paired to my system is 2 sonoff temp sensors. I'm using ZHA and the sonoff USB zwave dongle on a 2 foot extension cable. I acquired a 3 pack of the aqara door sensors and just starting with trying to add them to zha but no really getting any luck. I paired it and it seemed to work but the status wouldn't update beyond the initial pairing. I tried repairing a few times and now it won't seem to find the device at all. I'm worried I'm a bit in over my head here with this diy approach.

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My door sensor is a floor up and maybe 15 feet over from my usb dongle. Is that too far? Is my issue that I don't have additional non battery devices in my mesh? (rn I guess I basically just have a star topology)

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I have it connected again now I think but if I move the magnet close and remove it again I don't see any open or close events on the device page for the sensor. Not sure if there's anything I can post to help troubleshoot?

teal moth
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Hallo there! I have a tuya multi-mode gateway 804051-3, I was wondering, how can I add the ikea lights in order to remote control them?

shell frigate
# elfin tangle Thank you so much. weird. The description doesn't say anything about zigbee. But...

oh you’re right. That’s really weird. Well…I would hold on to the packaging! I can’t wholeheartedly recommend the product because of this confusion. Even with the strips I bought, it said zigbee when I bought them and now it doesn’t, and also the actual strips I bought actually look like the wifi version, AND the box lists that the version/model # I received is actually the wifi version not the zigbee…but it worked. It took a few tries but it showed up when I went to add zigbee devices to my coordinator

austere patio
graceful tiger
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Looks like the battery life has updated if I look at the device screen so something is being transmitted evidently. But the log shows nothing since I paired it up via zha

spring zinc
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I have Phillips hue bulbs with the ZHA integration; how do I edit their color to be an exact color temperature? It seems to require me to edit rgb and xy colors in the yaml or else it just turns off

leaden grotto
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my aqara contact sensor is shown as offline

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should I re-pair it?

reef inlet
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is there a way of using my (now unused) sonoff wireless bridge so that it can relay/boost the ZigBee connectivity in my back room which has really poor ZigBee signal

sour shadow
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I have Phillips hue bulbs with the ZHA

gusty yarrow
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Where can I get repeater firmware for an EM3581 MCU?

gusty yarrow
graceful tiger
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Does anyone happen to know of the led should blink on the aqara door sensors when door open/close event happens? Or is the led just for pairing. Wondering if I maybe just have a defective device

sour shadow
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No, they only blink when pairing or when manually woken

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(that is, if you push the button)

graceful tiger
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Hmm ok

sour shadow
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If they don't work then:

  1. Replace the battery
  2. Make sure you paired them to a nearby router (see the top pinned message)
  3. Check for interference (see the top pinned message)
graceful tiger
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Yup I think it was an interference issue. Looks like it's working now!

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Any recommendations for most stable/best zigbee plug or any device really to act as repeater? I don't really have a need for smart plugs except maybe 1 in my nursery for a salt lamp but could use some more routers in my network for stability I think

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I only have the coordinator at the moment

graceful tiger
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Was thinking of getting a 4 pack of Sonoff s31s or the Third reality energy monitoring plugs

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I assume it makes sense to wait for my smart plugs before starting to add more battery powered devices to my network?

cloud swallow
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well, it does what it's supposed to. house runs entirely off battery during the day.

turns out the inverter has nanopi in it, you can ssh into it, and there's even an alternative OS image that contains an MQTT server and NodeRED server with custom extras to do things with the inverter and its peripherals. if you live in continental europe (not UK and possible not Ireland, both of which have different energy market) they supply a "dynamic ESS" mode which will use solar forecasts and day-ahead energy pricing to decide how much to charge from the grid (and when).

when i get time, i'll do a nodered equivalent sourcing data from my own energy supplier (Octopus), who do publish their own API, and i'll switch to their "agile" tariff (you get charged in proportion to wholesale energy prices, at the time you consume it).

so all that is pretty excellent. looks like solar panels will go on the roof some time in April. that's when things will get interesting.

sour shadow
graceful tiger
carmine hamlet
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The third reality ones are good for the NA market

fresh citrus
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Anyone got IKEA Badring in Z2M yet? I can add it but it shows as unsupported.

craggy lark
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Here is an odd one (for me), maybe easypeasy for you. I am using ZHA, with the ZZH! stick. No issues for a long time. I had one Lidl (Silvercrest) motion sensor which I had added long ago to my network, but it has been unavailable for quite some time. Today I decided to fix it and get it back to the network.
I was able to get it reconnected via repairing, but somehow now I have 2 of the same device appearing - the other reports firmware status correctly and the other reports motion detection correctly. They both report different battery levels. If I remove the one that doesn't report motion, it will reappear after some time (my network is open).

They both have the same Manufacturer (_TZ1800_fcdjzz3s), and I believe that is the unique device identifier. Other LIDL zigbee's I have are also _TZ3000 but with different ending.

Debugging ideas welcome 🙂

regal pumice
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I'm looking for a zigbee thermostat that supports 24vac HVAC, so heating, air conditioning, fan, and humidifier.

I would grab a echo bee but their pricey, anything on Chinese market worth looking at?

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What's your thoughts on this project?

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It's wifi based

native gale
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What zigbee stick is the best one for home assistant? I‘m actually using raspbee 1 with Deconz but I wanna upgrade

cloud swallow
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in the end, it's not worth upgrading if what you have works and another model isn't obviously better.

native gale
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The problem is I have a raspberry pi 5 with active cooler but there is no place to install raspbee and cooler so I’m searching a stick

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Would the Sonoff dongle work with deconz ?

dapper sand
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will this command "reset_fact_default" clear a zigbee device and put it in pairing mode again?

pseudo nova
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I need some help.
I have my ZBDongle-E, with Securenet I have flashed the file Z3RouterUSBDonlge_EZNet6.10.3_V1.0.0.gbl.
I created a new user "mqttconnection" with password in Home Assistant and configured it in ZigbeeM2QTT and stored it in MQTT Broker.
And ZigbeeM2QTT just won't start.

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This is the only thing that is logged, and after a short while it restarted and again the same.

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[17:30:08] INFO: Preparing to start...
[17:30:10] INFO: Socat not enabled
[17:30:15] INFO: Starting Zigbee2MQTT..
Zigbee2MQTT:info 2024-03-30 17:30:29: Logging to console and directory: '/config/zigbee2mqtt/log/2024-03-30.17-30-28' filename: log.txt
Zigbee2MQTT:info 2024-03-30 17:30:29: Starting Zigbee2MQTT version 1.36.0 (commit #unknown)
Zigbee2MQTT:info 2024-03-30 17:30:29: Starting zigbee-herdsman (0.35.1)

carmine hamlet
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sounds like you flashed router firmware, but you're trying to use it as a coordinator

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but I don't know anything about that firmware

pseudo nova
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Oh, okay?
I though i needed it

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the router firmware

carmine hamlet
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Z2M doesn't connect to routers. Routers create the Zigbee mesh by passing commands through the network

pseudo nova
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As, this is the first time I have used smart home. Does that mean I only need one connector?

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I don't think I need a long range. It's just a room that I'm furnishing with lights.

carmine hamlet
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"coordinator"

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and yes

pseudo nova
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Jo wtf, it works!!! It took me hours and I thought maybe it was broken or the software was buggy oof, thanks!!!

dapper sand
regal pumice
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Anyone play with these thermostats?

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Just found this amazing item on AliExpress. Check it out!
C$41.79 50%OFF | Tuya ZigBee Digital Display Smart Temperature Controller Hvac Thermostat 3 Speed Heating Cooling for Air Conditioning Controller
https://a.aliexpress.com/_m0dKsbC

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I'm looking at the 4 pole 24vac zigbee version

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I have AC/Heat/and a Fan.. humidifier is also there but I think it's on it's own thermostat

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If this is almost a plug and Play solution on the bugget side compared to echobee I'm willing to try it

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Just need a little guidance if it'll work

astral seal
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It's in the supported devices list for z2m.

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But it's also Tuya and Tuya stuff is hit or miss.

regal pumice
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But true

astral seal
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Shame the supply of cheap Centralite Pearl thermostats seems to have dried up

regal pumice
regal pumice
fierce mango
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Trying to change a "light" to a "switch" type, I followed the steps at https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/#modifying-the-device-type
It says "From device info, you can find the {endpoint_id} by viewing the Zigbee device signature."
But where is that in the GUI? All I see is is the "Zigbee info" box, but no signature which contains the endpoint id.
I just guessed and added -1 and that worked, but I was wondering where the signature went, because I think I saw it before but now it's gone. Or am I just blind...

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Never mind I found it... Click the ⋮ next to Reconfigure, then Manage zigbee device, then switch to the Signature tab

fervent tiger
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I've had already twice error in HA command line: usb_serial_generec_read_bul_callback - urb stopped: -32 Any idea why this happens and how to resolve?
As a result Z2MQTT doesn't work anymore

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When I restart HA, everything works for many hours and then I get the error again

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Should I update my slae.sh CC2652rb USB coordinator?

mint hatch
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Hello, I accidentally disconnected my Zigbee coordinator from the USB extension whilst relocating it, not HA shows no temperature data. Is there a quick fix please?

main ruin
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Have you plugged it back in and gave it a good ol reboot / reconfigure?

mint hatch
main ruin
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Have you tried to manually wake up one of those sensors and see if it works? Alternatively I could imagine you starting a device pairing and then wake up the sensor should most definitely re join it without anything needing to be adjusted

mint hatch
main ruin
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In zha you can enable the pairing mode thing. Waking up the device in my experience usually makes it appear again with all it's previous things. But that may not necessarily be the case if you reset the sensor

mint hatch
main ruin
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I see, I can't say for sure with that setup

fervent tiger
mint hatch
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Well, I've dug down into the HA settings -> Add-ons -> Info -> START -> OPEN WEB UI -> Zigbee2MQTT error: The add-on seems to not be ready, it might still be starting. Do you want to try again?

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Confused why disconnecting the USB coordinator is punishing me like this?

raven jewel
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It's not that it's punishing you, it's that it needs the co-ordinator to work and disconnecting it causes it to not work.

mint hatch
mint hatch
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Fixed, I had to remove the previous USB setting from the VM and passthrough (Add Hardware) the same reconnected USB.

quartz cipher
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Anyone here a happy user of innovelli or zooz switches?

reef inlet
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anyone know how to tweak things on a mmwave presence sensor so that it doesn't act like a motion sensor? I know I've not managed to sort the quirk out fully yet , but it at least works in some regard... but the issue is that if I am in the room and not moving (ok yes it's the loo and I'm sitting on the throne) then the lights go off after a short while because I've not really moved any.

sour shadow
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Are you sure the mmwave sensor is working?

uncut yoke
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ZHA is killing my ikea button very quickly. Changed the battery on friday and was showing 86% and now its showing 14%, anything I can to change the polling rate or extend battery life?

mellow geode
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What HA version are you on? Did you reset and re-pair the button? What coordinator are you using?

carmine hamlet
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Battery-powered devices cannot be polled or communicated with unless they wake up on their own

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

📎 message.txt
uncut yoke
last rain
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Hi All, currently running a SkyConnect in multi protocol mode, which i want to move away from. Still need both Zigbee and Thread. I currently have a 53 device Zigbee network, with direct connected Hue lights & plugs, Schneider Electric wall switches and some other power plugs - which equals a good mesh network over the whole house i think. Is another SkyConnect the way?

sour shadow
hard moat
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Hi All! Sorry for asking what has probably been asked 1m times before. Googled quite a bit, but finding mixed messages. Want to set up my first HA setup with Zigbee. Reliability is key to get buy-in from family. Also want to avoid Chinese brands for adapter. Is z2m + conbee 2 (with 0x26580700 firmware) a reliable option? Or would SkyConnect/Zi-Stick be a better option? If so, is ZHA the only reliable option? Any and all advice highly appreciated. Thanks in advance! 🙂

sour shadow
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For Z2M any CC2652 based stick is good

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For ZHA the SkyConnect, or any other current EZSP stick is good

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Neither ZHA or Z2M are more reliable than the other

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What makes them reliable is your mesh being set up correctly

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(check the pins)

vague lake
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@sour shadow I got around to updated to the latest HA with python 3.12 (mentioned it over in the #installation-archived channel) but still getting ZHA failures after about 30 minutes. Would any of these entries in my config be causing the errors:

source_routing: true
ezsp_config:
CONFIG_SOURCE_ROUTE_TABLE_SIZE: 35
CONFIG_NEIGHBOR_TABLE_SIZE: 16
CONFIG_MAX_END_DEVICE_CHILDREN: 32

Error I'm receiving is:

2024-03-31 16:12:33.782 DEBUG (MainThread) [bellows.ezsp.protocol] Application frame received setSourceRoute: [<EmberStatus.NO_BUFFERS: 24>]

Currently running 2024.3.3 on a HUSBZB-1 and if I go back to 2023.12.4 I have no issues with ZHA.

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I have a full log with debug logging enabled for ZHA but wasn't sure if one of those entries may be screwing me up or just need to be removed as they aren't doing anything

hard moat
tiny timber
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G'day folks. Looking to move/consolidate my networks from Hue + Skyconnect ZHA to z2m using SONOFF ZBDongle-P. Anything I should know before starting? Is the best way to run a clean energy scan to just disconnect the Skyconnect + Hue hub before running on the z2m host?

zealous goblet
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I have a question..... i have setup a zigbee network with 4 devices, and it goes offline (VERY) often, what can i do to troubleshoot it? Hitting Setting > Devices and reloading zigbee fails, one way to bring it back online is rebooting HAS.

SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus V2
2x eWeLink MS01
2x eWeLink TH01

vague lake
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Not enough data to say for certain yet, but it is looking like source_routing may have been causing the free buffers to be exhausted.

sour shadow
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Thanks! Do you count the conbee as

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@Tinkerer I got around to updated to the

tiny timber
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What's the easiest way to do a Zigbee channel scan for zigbee2mqtt? The container doesn't have python/pip nor zigpy-cli.

carmine hamlet
tiny timber
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Sorry, should have been more specific. Not HA host, standalone docker.

carmine hamlet
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I just installed zigpy-cli on my laptop and carried it around

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It's easy

tiny timber
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I don't have a laptop, making it significantly less easy 😛

carmine hamlet
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No computer? You're running HA on something

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Install it there

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The laptop wasn't the important part there

tiny timber
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Debian Proxmox VM. Was hoping to be able to do it via a docker container rather than needing to install stuff on the root OS.

carmine hamlet
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You can install it wherever you were planning to run a container

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In any case, I don't know if there's a container for it. You can easily create a venv and delete it later

tiny timber
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And is it best to run an energy scan with all other coordinators shut down? Trying to migrate ZHA (Skyconnect) + Hue hub to z2m.

carmine hamlet
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You should stop all other Zigbee coordinators

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All you need to do is pip install zigpy-cli

tiny timber
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Well, wee bit more. The Debian VM didn't come have python or venv.

carmine hamlet
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Ok

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You can probably also do it from within the HA container

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Should have everything installed and you would have already passed in the coordinator

tiny timber
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Bouncing between 9 and 20% energy for channel 11. Guessing that's my best bet.

carmine hamlet
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That's usually the worst one

tiny timber
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Everything else is 25-80%

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It does warn that Active Zigbee networks on a channel may still cause congestion. Would the network still exist without the coordinators powered (i.e. routers keeping it up)?

carmine hamlet
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Might

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What channel was it on?

tiny timber
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Looks like 11, so don't imagine so.

carmine hamlet
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And hopefully your WiFi isn't on channel 1

tiny timber
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Nah, moved that to the other end of the spectrum. In a pretty noisy neighbourhood so occasionally have to bounce it around.

worthy holly
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Hello. Thanks in advance for any feedback. I decided today to reinstall from scratch my HA (raspberryOS, docker with a ZBDongle-P). Before doing so, I saved the ZHA configuration (27 Zigbee devices). After reinstalling when configuring ZHA and being asked if I wanted to use a backup and upload the backup file, not a single device showed up; the ZHA is active, but it seems that I need to re-pair all my devices. What did I do wrong?

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The new install+ZHA have been up for over an hour, and no device has reconnected. I thought that restoring the backup would bring up the list of connected devices

regal pumice
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Running into a peculiar issue

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Probably something to do with my peculiar setup

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I primarily use ZHA on a Tubezb coordinator via ethernet

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And I also have a secondary network on Zigbee2mqtt via a sonoff USB coordinator

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I've recently put in a smart relay on my deck for spot lights

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There's another identical smart relay located right at the door to the deck

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I have a pretty strong network

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These are both router end points, Theoretically it should connect via ZHA fine

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However can't seem to get it discovered

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When trying to connect to it via Zigbee2mqtt it's instant... yet that network is weaker

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There's only one end device which is not a router

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Any ideas?

tiny timber
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Anyone got any tips for getting Aqara contact sensors to pair when far from the coordinator (but close to heaps of routers)?

regal pumice
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I've basically got the same question

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Just to update everyone I got it working with ZHA...

I tried disabling z2m, didn't do anything, I then turned off my second coordinator, didn't do anything..

Finally I tried restarting home assistant (also did this every test)

This didn't work, but pyshcially grabbing the coordinator and pointing it's antenna in the direction of the router smart relay.

This worked pretty quickly and I was able to make a introduction..

Nothing much in logs... but I'm confused, my best guess is a combination of interference from wifi and the 2nd zigbee network and pyshcial distance even though there's another router at the back door..

This could very well be an issue with insulation on the outer walls.

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So I'm gonna try setting up a repeater or some sort of router device to extend the mesh..

Further/closer to the wall to that deck..

There is a delay when toggling the switch, so this is probably all due to distance..

sour shadow
reef inlet
tiny timber
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Just down to 2 contact sensors giving me grief now. Unfortunately, they're two of the most critical.

sour shadow
alpine mason
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Hi all, I've got an issue with my ZHA and Conbee II they don't seem to be able to talk to each other after a restart. I have managed to get them working in the past by restarting my VM (on a Synology NAS) and then restarting HomeAssistant, and fiddling around with the USB settings in the Synology Software. But I can't really remember the way I did it previously, I have since been combing the internet for an answer, one of which was to update the firmware on the Conbee and now they will not communicate at all. Would anyone be able to help me out? I'm at my wits end.

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If anyone could help I would be greatly appreciative!

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Will post in the Integration channel as well, if this is the wrong place

fresh citrus
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Same issue here, did you get it running?

wintry bramble
# fresh citrus Same issue here, did you get it running?

There was a follow up chat about a day later you can prob read. The convertor for Z2M was only merged recently so we'll need to deploy the latest Z2M image when it's released. It looks like monthly releases so should hopefully be one a available this week

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Or use an external convertor, but the easy option is wait for a Z2M release

fresh citrus
wintry bramble
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literally about 15 min after you posted your first message

fresh citrus
fresh citrus
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Stuck at "Leaking" though even if it's dry.

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Re-paried it and it seems to work

wintry bramble
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Yeah I had to remove both of mine, and re-interview them, but they're both successfully configured now.

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is the onboard speaker still sounding on yours when the leaking state is showing true? I've not checked mine in HA yet but inspecting the zigbee traffic and using a finger to bridge the sensor, mine both trigger an MQTT message for "water_leak": true immediately followed by an update to return false (cause I've released the finger)

fresh citrus
winter raven
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Are there any USB hubs that work with Synology NAS like DS923+? I'm looking to replace my Linux server with my NAS running HA.

molten linden
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Don’t limit it to usb 😜

main ruin
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Uh the official licensed and certified synology USB expansion hub should work

winter raven
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Oh good point, what are my options?

main ruin
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Or realistically any other hub should work to my knowledge

molten linden
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You in #zigbee-archived so figured context was zigbee coordinator. There are options (check my bio) that connect over local network/ethernet.

last rain
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Any tips on placement of a Aqara Temperature Humidity Sensor for the shower room? Directly above the shower, to the side?

tiny timber
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Is there any way to change the entity naming scheme that z2m pushes to HA for devices? For example, if I name something "Back Door Contact", z2m reports binary_sensor.back_door_contact_contact. Related, any way to get z2m to push/change device class of devices/entities? I.e. "Office Window Contact" reports the friendly name as "Office Window Contact Door".

crimson drum
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which zigbee repeater would you guys recommend, which has great power antenna? (looking for a plug-and-play solution, I don't have the mood to play with firmwares 😄 )

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I have a spare cc2531 but I'm afraid that will be too weak to communicate through two thick brick walls and about 15m

sour shadow
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Well, that's gonna be a stretch regardless

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A couple of CC2652 sticks with antennas may work, if you get all the angles right

mighty river
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Hi all, I am new in home automation. I have a problem with my setup for ecodim light dimmers. ( current setup, raspberry pi5, zigbee conbee 2 stick with usb extension cable, intergration ZHA, I have also treid deconz ) according to the integration all is succesfully instalt but HA cant find the divices ( when the are in paring mode) Can someone help me out ?

snow wave
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i have problems with my ZHA since some updates, i cant figure out whats the problem.. im using skyconnect multi protocol.. there is any know issue? it says setup failed.

where can i find the propper logs?

austere patio
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You should migrate away from multiprotocol back to Zigbee firmware, development for it is frozen and bugs will not be fixed for the foreseeable future

snow wave
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yya it tells me to have multi fiormware and i should return to just zigbee firmware. but i was using multi the whole time

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im scared to loose all my thread devices by doing so

snow wave
austere patio
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Restart it. If that doesn't work, unplug the SkyConnect and plug it back in. Make sure you're running the latest version and don't have firmware updates disabled in the config.

snow wave
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ok trying that

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i repluged it and restartetr the multi addon: t

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now i dont know which device i should choose, i dont know whjere its connected.. Device: /dev/ttyS1, /dev/ttyS3, /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS2

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can i somehow see whats connected where?

sour shadow
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Look for the /dev/serial/by-id/ path instead

snow wave
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there is non

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im using VM to run HA

sour shadow
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Then check the Hardware menu

rapid dawnBOT
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Hardware

Open your Home Assistant instance and show hardware information

wintry bramble
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you're probably outside the scope of this channel with VM config... but I think you have to configure your VM to expose serial connections?

sour shadow
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Well, map the device to the VM

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(or the port)

snow wave
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i diod that allready and it was working like forever. but after 1 or 2 upodates of HA it stopüed

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i manualy flash now the firmware wiuth my pc and see what happens

snow wave
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noithging cvhanged, it is running but calls out:
[16:49:09:771903] Info : Failed to connect, secondary seems unresponsive
[16:49:09:771913] Info : Connecting to Secondary...

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repluged, used another port, flashed firmware manualy

austere patio
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If you're able to flash firmware via web, it sounds like your VM is not allowing the addon to communicate with the SkyConnect or the serial port path is not unique and you're connecting to an empty port

rustic tundra
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Should I ditch my Hue hub once I get my Zigbee coordinator? My understanding is the benefit is a cleaner/stronger mesh network if I ditch the hub. Obviously also keeping everything local

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But plenty of folks keep both it seems

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I've never had an issue with the hue hub...though not being able to easily perform a hub backup would be a negative of it

snow wave
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it works now. needed to uncheck the usb port in my vm and reenable it... thanks

austere patio
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That's just the addon starting up. It says that it can't communicate.

ocean cloak
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Anyone know how to whitelist a single device to be permitted to join the network in Z2M?

sour shadow
rustic tundra
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Somehow I can't even perform the simple task of adding the Tubeszb CC2652 PoE coordinator to HA. Keep getting an "error while starting zigbee-herdsman" error in Zigbee2MQTT. Anyone ran into that? Googling hasn't helped--I found my coordinator IP address from my router, which is correct

molten linden
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what i the actual error from the log?

rustic tundra
# 
[12:50:49] INFO: Socat not enabled
[12:50:50] INFO: Starting Zigbee2MQTT...
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2024-04-02 12:50:51: Logging to console and directory: '/config/zigbee2mqtt/log/2024-04-02.12-50-51' filename: log.txt
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2024-04-02 12:50:51: Starting Zigbee2MQTT version 1.36.1 (commit #unknown)
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2024-04-02 12:50:51: Starting zigbee-herdsman (0.40.3)
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-02 12:50:51: Error while starting zigbee-herdsman
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-02 12:50:51: Failed to start zigbee
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-02 12:50:51: Check https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/installation/20_zigbee2mqtt-fails-to-start.html for possible solutions
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-02 12:50:51: Exiting...
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-02 12:50:51: Error: spawn udevadm ENOENT
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:284:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:477:16)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)```
molten linden
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that's a new one for me. how are you running z2m? seems like it doesn't even get to the coordinator startup

rustic tundra
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Ah, just noticed you were the Tube. Thanks for the quick shipping and very cool product, by the way.

ashen bluff
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Can you share your config(s)?

rustic tundra
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And sorry, I want to make sure I understand the question. But I have the mosquitto broker add-on installed (which seems to be running correctly and without errors). Then I have z2m installed with this config:

molten linden
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I was meaning, Addon-on, docker, bare-metal..

rustic tundra
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Socat: enabled: false master: pty,raw,echo=0,link=/tmp/ttyZ2M,mode=777 slave: tcp-listen:8485,keepalive,nodelay,reuseaddr,keepidle=1,keepintvl=1,keepcnt=5 options: "-d -d" log: false
mqtt: server: mqtt://core-mosquitto:1883 user: mqtt-user password: mqtt-test
serial: serial: port: tcp://192.168.1.137:6638

rustic tundra
molten linden
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check and make sure zha is not running

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these are reports of the same error.

rustic tundra
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Zha isn't running (I would see that in the integration menu, right?)

rustic tundra
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Sidenote: did I need to flash any firmware to start? My understanding was no, but I'll feel pretty dumb if that's why.

molten linden
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for your Serial section in the addon config

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remove serial:

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and just put in port: tcp:\.....

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you can also switch the panle to yaml to see how it's is intepreting what you are entering.

rustic tundra
# molten linden remove serial: 
[13:03:03] INFO: Socat not enabled
[13:03:03] INFO: Starting Zigbee2MQTT...
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2024-04-02 13:03:05: Logging to console and directory: '/config/zigbee2mqtt/log/2024-04-02.13-03-05' filename: log.txt
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2024-04-02 13:03:05: Starting Zigbee2MQTT version 1.36.1 (commit #unknown)
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2024-04-02 13:03:05: Starting zigbee-herdsman (0.40.3)```
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Zigbee2MQTT:info 2024-04-02 13:04:08: Zigbee2MQTT started!

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Damn. Just removing serial seemed to do it. Thank you!

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The GUI has loaded, too

molten linden
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yep, missed that when you pasted the config. looking at the yaml would have revealed that too.

rustic tundra
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I see how I misread the instructions (total user error). Thanks again. Very new--will check YAML next time!

grim igloo
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@winter mist is having some fun z2m error issues. @mellow geode are you around to help point him in the right direction?

mellow geode
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Send the logs/errors here and I'll see what I can do

ocean cloak
# sour shadow <https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/configuration/block-pass-list.html>

Thanks. I'm not exactly sure this is what I'm looking for. I'm looking to whitelist a single device so it's always allowed to join. Basically as if I put Z2M in a permanent "permit join" mode, but only for that device. Additionally it sounds like if I add one device to this list I'll need to add them all otherwise my other devices will get kicked from the network

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Yeah so I guess this sort of is what I want. I'd add my devices to this list, and then put it in always join mode in the settings.

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The only downside is that I'd then need to add them all

mellow geode
ocean cloak
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Good question

mellow geode
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What coordinator are you using?

winter mist
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Hi.

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@mellow geode Maybe once a day we notice that all zigbee devices become either laggy or just unresponsive. This is with Z2M.

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It lasts for a minute or two or five.

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At first I thought it was HA, however the last time it happened I opened up the z2m web interface quickly and tried flipping a few lights on and on, super laggy.

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I did not see any CPU spikes within the z2m container.

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I'll try to grab some logs when it happens next.

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I'm running a mix of Hue bulbs and switches, Aqara sensors, and Ikea switches.

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~65 devices, on a SLZB-05 CC2652P.

mellow geode
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Hmm, some (debug) logs are probably needed. Does it happen at same time usually? Maybe there's some kind of 2.4 GHz interference

winter mist
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It's pretty random.

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At least when we notice it. I'm not going around switching lights on/off every 60 seconds.

gleaming merlin
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Can I use z2mqtt to publish a message to one of the devices? (like a one-off configuration message)

ocean cloak
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I don't know the exact model but it's about 2.5 years old and connected via eth

mellow geode
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Is it EZSP or TI based?

molten linden
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if using z2m I'm going to guess TI

mellow geode
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Then the issue wouldn’t happen though, as Z-Stack firmware has unsecured rejoins enabled (hardcoded in firmware)

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I can only see this happening on Z2M when you’re using an EZSP coordinator, since Z2M doesn’t seem to allow you to enable unsecured rejoins for EZSP

scarlet gust
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I'm probably asking a dumb question that gets answered multiple times a day so I apologize in advance:

Is there anything special I need to do to add a battery device (IKEA TRADFRI button) using zha? I get as far as the interview starting and then it seems to stall and the device never gets added to the device registry. I know in the zwave world you sometimes need to wake devices to coax them along, is that the case here? If that's the case, does anyone know how to wake it? I know four presses is to pair, and I've tried other combinations but nothing seems to wake it but that four button push

scarlet gust
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hmm OK now I've paired but the double click isn't working 🤔

molten linden
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Do you see the expected options in the device’s automation triggers? Or just looking at zha_event in devtools

scarlet gust
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I'm looking at the logbook on the device page

molten linden
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Check the built in device automation triggers if it isn’t there the device likely doesn’t send it. Which ikea tradfri button is it?

tiny timber
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Anyone got any recommended naming scheme for z2m devices? It seems like you can either have a good entity ID or a good friendly name of the entities that get generated, but not both. I.e. "Front Door Contact" = binary_sensor.front_door_contact_contact entity ID and "Front Door Contact Door" friendly name. Do people just stick to something like "Front Door" for device name and rename the friendly name in HA?

scarlet gust
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I see conflicting information. In some places I see that it has an off (double click), in others its not mentioned

molten linden
scarlet gust
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zhaquirks.ikea.shortcutbtn.IkeaTradfriShortcutBtn

gleaming merlin
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if i want to change network channels I know i need to repair my zigbee clients - does that set them up as brand new HA devices as well or is there a somewhat easy way to re-associate them?

molten linden
scarlet gust
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yeah not sure why it's not registering then

molten linden
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Try to reconfigure it - click the button while you trigger the reconfigure.

austere patio
gleaming merlin
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Z2M - I believe I read it requires repairing

ashen bluff
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I wonder why ZHA can do that but Z2M can't.

tiny timber
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The ZHA one is dependent on the devices supporting that method too. I have a bunch of battery sensors that will not re-join on channel change, but just enabling join + triggering the sensor setup joins them with the same IDs again.

sour shadow
sterile sleet
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I have 2 sonoff zbmini-l2
Can i wire them up so that only one of them ever gets turned on?
I plan to control a cover motor with these, if not I‘ll get some dedicated cover switches

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My fear is that zigbee will probably turn one of them off too late or not at all with automations which will destroy the motor

carmine hamlet
trail aspen
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I have a zigbee dimmer from IKEA(Quirk: zhaquirks.ikea.fourbtnremote.IkeaTradfriRemoteV1). It is paired with Home Assistant ZHA, which is configured to control my zigbee desk lamp that is also paired with ZHA. For some reason if my desk lamp is unplugged, it trigger my LUMI zigbee light switch. If I plug it back in, it trigger both my LUMI light switch and the desk lamp. I don't think I have anything configured like this, any idea why?

scarlet gust
austere patio
sterile sleet
austere patio
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You mention that you can destroy the motor by improperly timing something

sterile sleet
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by turning on both switches

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and both of them being zigbee it can potentially get jammed

austere patio
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That's something you should solve in hardware before automating it. I wouldn't rely on anything wireless if you have such a dangerous limitation.

sterile sleet
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yep, thats why I just ordered dedicated ones

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I just thought of wiring them up each other using their s1/s2 pins but there is no solution I could come up where this would work. so better use that

distant flume
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@scarlet gust make sure you have the latest firmware installed on that button (zha has ikea firmware update support, but it needs to be enabled manually - see the docs). I believe they changed some of the button handling when they updated the firmware for Dirigera hub compatibility.

distant flume
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from the release notes, it looks like that should be working as long as you have firmware 2.3.080 (from October 2021) or newer tho.

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I have several of these with firmware 24.4.6 (0x24040006) and all the double-press and long press events work as expected.

scarlet gust
distant flume
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Shouldn't be any issue pairing the button if it's reset with red light blinking. Could maybe try adding it via a nearby device instead of to controller, and also try a fresh battery.

polar raptor
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Will zigbee devices auto reconnect after a given time?

sour shadow
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Will zigbee devices auto reconnect after

pale lion
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hello guys, i just want to control tuya zigbee smart curtain from home assistant. i am using zigbee bridge and curtain. i already installed tasmota on zigbee bridge and made my homeassistant server. they are connecting with each other by mqtt mosquito. problem is i dont know how to

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controll that curtain

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can someone teach me about of button configuration and entity

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@everyone

sour shadow
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@pale lion why the fuck did you try to ping 130 thousand people to demand their attention?

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Is your problem really that important?

pale lion
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sorry guys, i just very tilted

sour shadow
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I've never been on any server where that wasn't a bad idea

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Your problem though depends on whether you're using Zigbee2MQTT, ZHA, or the Tasmota Zigbee stack

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I'm guessing either the Tasmota stack or Zigbee2MQTT?

pale lion
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i am using zb-gw03

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and mqtt mosquitto

sour shadow
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The ZB-GW03 is the hardware, and MQTT is how both Tasmota and Z2M communicate

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You need to be running some software to handle the Zigbee to MQTT part - either Tasmota or Z2M

pale lion
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yep, i already did it . i just cant configurating button card

sour shadow
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That's a topic for the #frontend-archived channel - if you tell them what you actually want to do... configure the card to do what?

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(though the cover card is likely to be better)

pale lion
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ohh i got it , thanks man

steady coyote
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Hello, anyone know if Moes internal covers mechanism works with zigbee2mqtt?

sour shadow
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Check the Z2M devices list

mint hatch
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Hello, my zigbee temperature sensor is connected but is providing a frozen constantly same temperature? I have reset the temperature sensor and the HA zigbee coordinator connects it, but it remains on the unchanged output?

sour shadow
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Put a new battery in it, whatever it is

fervent lynx
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Anyone else have problems with certain zigbee devices just “turning on” randomly without an automation?

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I find my ikea tradfri bulbs are a common culprit

patent umbra
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I use Z2M. Every time i restart my HA some Zigbee Devices won't work: All of my Avatto ME167, my Philips WallSwitches (929003017102). I had to restart Z2M manually, then all tings work. What ist my problem?

frail sail
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I recently picked up the new Aqara T1M ceiling light and it paired into Home Assistant easily through ZHA.

I noticed it does not support the effects for the ring lights though.

I've seen some indications that the effects are available in Zigbee2MQTT, but was just curios if it is technically possible for ZHA to expose this feature?

austere patio
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Of course, Zigbee is Zigbee. Someone has to make a quirk for it, since it's nonstandard functionality.

frail sail
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Would something like this typically be contributed to Home Assistant core or is it expected to be a local customization / community driven?

austere patio
slate jay
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I have the Aqara ceiling lights (x3) lumi.light.acn003 and they have started to switch on randomly a couple of times per day. I don't know how to troubleshoot the logs to find the reason why, I can only see they are turned on. Any ideas how to troubleshoot that? I'm on ZHA and have tried to update their firmware without success...

austere patio
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These devices seem to crash when they receive the firmware update broadcast, causing them to reboot and default to their "on" state

slate jay
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Ok, so can I try to disable the firmware upgrade task somehow to see if that works?

austere patio
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Add this to your config:

zigpy:
  ota:
    broadcast_enabled: false

You'll stop receiving OTA notifications for any device that doesn't itself check in. They'll also crash again if you click the "check for updates" button in HA.

lilac plover
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Hey all, I have an aqara motion sensor, attempting matter integration separately, but I noticed while it's paired via ZHA (im using sky connect) the battery levels shown are very different than what the unit was reporting 5 mins ago when paired directly to the aqara m2 hub. Specifically HA is showing 62% and M2 had 95%

austere patio
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Aqara motion sensors don't report their battery percentage, they just report a raw voltage (which will not meaningfully change during the lifetime of your sensor). The M2 probably computes it a little differently than ZHA.

lilac plover
austere patio
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Unfortunately, it'll just stop working in ~2 years. The battery voltage doesn't drop all that much from the time you buy it to the time it goes flat :/

mellow geode
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You should see the sensor and battery entity become unavailable after some time though

tacit hill
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What are some good zigbee in wall outlets you all recommend. Hopefully affordable. Also possibly with power monitoring

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But I know they're not cheap so affordable is relatively I suppose.i just dont see many on say Amazon of brands ive heard of.

carmine hamlet
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There aren't many in-wall outlets for any protocol, and I regret buying the one I got because it broke and is a pain to replace. I strongly suggest looking at plug-in modules, which are easy to find, cheap, and many offer power monitoring

mint hatch
# sour shadow Put a new battery in it, whatever it is

I changed the AAA rechargeable batteries (old ones have power) and new batteries had no power to sensor (but were full). Removed new batteries and reinserted several times and was able to reset the sensor.
I don’t understand what happens in HA, but the temperature is still frozen on the same data with no change.

ashen bluff
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A lot of devices still don't like rechargeables. I faintly remember an ikea device that did very strange things when used with them.

tacit hill
wooden plume
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hey collective....anyone seen this?

I recently purchased 4 Innr Smart Plugs as I'm slowly expanding out my Zigbee network (ZHA). For some reason, when they are connected to my HA network, all the rest of my Zigbee deviced (and the plugs) all decide to drop off within 24 hours. A restart of HA fixes it.

I've checked the logs and can't really see anything I'm concerned about. I confirmed it's the plugs, as I just removed them and it's been up and fine for days now.

Anyone seen this before?

thick plover
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what have I done? 😄

just upgraded mosquitto container and getting this

thick plover
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fwiw i tried rolling back to earlier versions and getting the same error

sour shadow
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What OS? What version of Docker?

thick plover
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Raspberry Pi

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Raspbian I guess

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Version: 26.0.0

sour shadow
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docker run or a compose file?

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Have you tried a reboot in case the Pi has got confused?

thick plover
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compose

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yeah just rebooted the pi after updating the OS

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trying another reboot just in case

sour shadow
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This doesn't feel like a Mosquitto problem but a host/Docker problem

thick plover
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likely the case

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yeah still have same result after another reboot

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tried rebuilding mosquitto from scratch too and no good

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i think i will spin it up on another machine

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i should move away from the pi tbh

thick plover
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I think I have narrowed it down, i finally got things to show that z2m config is NOT detecting my coordinator

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Zigbee2MQTT:info  2024-04-06 01:23:55: Logging to console and directory: '/app/data/log/2024-04-06.01-23-55' filename: log.txt
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2024-04-06 01:23:55: Starting Zigbee2MQTT version 1.36.1 (commit #ffc2ff1)
Zigbee2MQTT:info  2024-04-06 01:23:55: Starting zigbee-herdsman (0.40.3)
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-06 01:23:57: Error while starting zigbee-herdsman
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-06 01:23:57: Failed to start zigbee
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-06 01:23:57: Check https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/installation/20_zigbee2mqtt-fails-to-start.html for possible solutions
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-06 01:23:57: Exiting...
Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-06 01:23:57: Error: Error: No such file or directory, cannot open /dev/ttyACM0
Using '/app/data' as data directory
sour shadow
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Make sure you're passing the right thing in, and if you pass it from the host as ttyACM0 then you should be using the /dev/serial/by-id/ path instead

distant flume
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Kind of annoyed that the ThirdReality temp/humidity sensors that I picked up don't work well on NiMH AAAs tho; screen is dimmer from the reduced voltage, and battery level reporting is off.

austere patio
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They should still last for a while, no? Or do they shut off?

distant flume
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I haven't had any problems with them turning off; they've been pretty reliable reporting temperatures over zigbee for a few months now. I don't know what point they actually shut off at yet.

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looks like they do report voltage, so i guess i'll keep an eye on that. says 2.5V right now, so 1.25V/cell, which is consistent with being early in the voltage 'plateau' on the nimh discharge curve on a low current device.

ashen bluff
distant flume
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interesting. the reason IKEA switched to AAAs in the first place was because they are trying to phase out single-use batteries - get rid of the CR2032s. The only AAAs they sell are rechargable NiMH, and that's what they tell you to use in the instructions.

spare mural
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Not a bad thing. Aside from the disposability, CR2032s are weirdly expensive

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At least where I live

ashen bluff
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They're usually cheap on aliexpress.

spare mural
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Honestly every person I know who's tried that got a box full where half didn't work at all and the remainder lasted half as long as name-brand.
Seems like false economy to me

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As well as exasperating the disposability issue, rather than resolving it

stable dew
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Any idea how to downgrade zigbee2mqtt from 1.36.1 to 1.35.2?
I just upgraded and the service starts. I can see in the logs my zigbee devices communicating but it doesn't connect to my home assistant anymore and web interface doesn't work. The host is not even listening on port 8080 anymore.

ashen bluff
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The official way it to restore a backup of the addon.

stable dew
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nvm fixed it, turns out it wasn't z2m, but home assistant that crashed in a very weird way where it was partially working but not in full... Rebooting the HASS VM fixed the issue (but rebooting HA via web interface didn't...)

ashen bluff
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Reboot vs restart. Restarting HA only restarts the HA container. Restarting the addon might've done the same.

sterile sleet
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as my zigbee mesh got a little bigger (mostly routers were added) recently it gets a little laggy the longer z2mqtt runs I feel. after 3-4 days lights start to take a second or more to act and so on.. has anyone else experienced this?
after a docker restart zigbee2mqtt everything reacts instantly again

plush gazelle
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does exists any device that measures a current? or something alikem

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?

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the pcb that controls the gate from the car (not classical usa garaje door) has some internal sensors (low voltages), i want to use those signals (sensors) instead of making an outside solution

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is it possible?

random turtle
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I have 2 sonoff SNZB-02D and they keep disconneting (Unavaliable) until i press the button just once then i can see it for 30 sek before it happens again, how can i fix this? Using a Moes Zigbee wired gateway

tall rivet
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Can I use hue bulbs as routers in zigbee2mqtt as well as using the bulbs via the hue app?

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Or do I have to disconnect from hue app

molten linden
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They have to be removed from hue gateway and joined to z2m. You will lose hue app

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As hue is no longer controlling them z2m is

tall rivet
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Hmm that’s what I was afraid of. So the hue gateway is useless now?

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Or can use used as another extender for my zigbee network?

molten linden
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paperweight

tall rivet
warm parcel
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Man, my SkyConnect just randomly isn't working in my ZHA. I've uninstalled/reinstalled the dongle multiple times, I'm 99% certain it's something with the VirtualBox itself but I don't know what to do to get this back to working 😦Sorry was sincerely just venting, especially because after 8 times it suddenly started working again. NO CLUE LOLOL

austere patio
warm parcel
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Win10

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It's good now, but yeah, if it reboots, it's going tobe a pain in the arse to get up and running again. I uninstalled everything, deleted drivers, all that jazz, then suddenly one time it works and I wish I knew why

spring olive
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is this normal? if i turn a light off and back on quickly (or basically do any zigbee action right after a zigbee action), it doesn't respond, slows down, or responds with an error "NETWORK BUSY"

if it is, i'm not sure how i'll deal with automations that may flash or turn on multiple zigbee devices at a time

main ruin
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yes this is somewhat normal

spring olive
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oh? is there a limit to zigbee bandwidth/traffic?

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if so, is there a way to queue messages or have them retried?

main ruin
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not really from what i know. theoretical solutions to this may be device specific

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ie it usually involves scenes/effects/animations/more trickeries

spring olive
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o

ashen bluff
austere patio
spring olive
austere patio
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Yeah, "network busy" is because the network actually is busy. Every group command is a broadcast that bounces around every device. You can only have a few of those happening at a time.

spring olive
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ohh

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is there a way i can optimize that?

limpid scroll
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Does Zigbee have a system of syncing time between devices?

Asking because I just set up the Aqara C1 pet feeder with Zigbee2MQTT. It lets you push a schedule time to feed to the device.
But there's no option to tell it the current time. And I cannot find anyone asking or explaining how it knows the current time. If it got the time wrong, I'd assume I could find people complaining about that

carmine hamlet
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Yes, it syncs the time automatically

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I've had issues getting it to save and act on that schedule, so I just have mine in manual mode and I created a simple automation to feed on a schedule

light basin
#

Anyone know of a dimmer that I can use with AC powered leds? The leds are 240 VAC, 6 W, built in power supplies that can do rear edge dimming. I will have two strings with 3 in parallel and one string with 6 in parallel. Hopefully flicker free. I'm in Sweden.

plush gazelle
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does it exists a way to check the power in a low voltage cable?

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or a sensor similar to it?

sterile sleet
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@plush gazelle this sounds more like a #diy-archived topic, where is the relation to zigbee?

limpid scroll
# carmine hamlet I've had issues getting it to save and act on that schedule, so I just have mine...

What I learned is that you can only change 1 of the scheduled times at a time. I had to change 1, hit save, then go to "State" and confirm it took affect. Then I'd reload the page and check state again to be sure. Sometimes it took 2-3 times for an edit to take effect. I did this in the Zigbee2MQTT site, not home assistant.
It may be related to the fact that Aqara devices technically don't comply to the Zigbee standard. They comply enough to work with most stuff, but it can cause connectivity issues, especially if they try to go through a non Aqara relay.

Also, I learned the times you set the schedule to are in UTC. So you need to convert your local time to that

carmine hamlet
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I was able to use local time for the schedule in Z2M

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There were just some basic issues with the scheduling UI. I would set up a schedule, reload the page, and all the times disappear. Then I leave the page and return and they're back

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it's was just unreliable for me, while making an automation leaves nothign to chance

limpid scroll
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Also I'm curious, did you find out what tha toggle at the top of the controls do in home assistant?
I can't put a picture in this channel, but under controls, there's a toggle, just with the name of the device. Then there's the child lock, and the dropdown that makes it dispense food.
I'm a bit afraid to mess with it, since if it dispenses extra food, my cat will freak out and may start expecting extra food in the future

carmine hamlet
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the one that says "LED indicator"?

limpid scroll
carmine hamlet
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I think that's what it's supposed to be. Mine isn't even working right now

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it's on, and if I try to flip it off it switches back to on

limpid scroll
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When I toggled the LED indicator in Zigbee2MQTT, home assistant logged that as the toggle I'm talking about

charred sky
last rain
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Hi All, currently have the SkyConnect with multiprotocol. Getting a ZigStar UZG-01 as I would like to use POE to run the co-oprdinator at a better location than my homelab. My question: Is there any gotchas when migrating from a USB to an IP-based zigbee co-oprdinator? (Using ZHA)

earnest mulch
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Hello
I have a question about Philips Hue dimmer (gen. 1).
I use a Sonoff ZigBee Gateway ZigBee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus-E and Zigbee2MQTT. I have paired both the Philips Hue Dimmer and Hue bulbs into HA. The bulbs react instentaly, when turn them on and off.
There is a problem with the dimmer. They don't work all the time. But I don't know how to trouble shoot them. They did work, when I used the Hue Bridge, but I don't use that anympre.

small ferry
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Hi, I have question regarding my Ikea Valhorn motion sensor. I've added it to Home Assistant without a hub and it shows up, but the sensors are kind of strange.

I'm getting 3 sensors. Illuminance, Occupancy and Opening. Illumiance works as expected. Occupancy constantly detects a presence, even though nothing moves in the room the sensor is in for hours. And I have no clue what Opening even means.

Can somebody please tell me how to use this sensor to trigger my lights? Thanks!

sour shadow
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Are you using normal or rechargeable batteries in it?

small ferry
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normal AAA batteries

sour shadow
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There's your problem

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They tell you to use rechargeables in it

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If you Google valhorn false positive you'll get a thousand hits telling you to use rechargeables

small ferry
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ohhh, okay

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I'll buy rechargables then

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thank you so much!

mighty river
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I am new in home automation. I have a problem with my setup for ecodim light dimmers. ( current setup, raspberry pi5, zigbee conbee 2 stick with usb extension cable, integration ZHA, I have also tried deconz ) according to the integration all is succesfully install but HA can’t find the devices ( when the are in paring mode) Can someone help me out where to start finding the solution?

sour shadow
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Are they in range (6 to 8 meters max typically) of the coordinator, with no more than one wall in the way?

mighty river
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Yep the are in range

split sage
mellow geode
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You can’t then, as the dimmer needs neutral. You also shouldn’t mess with mains voltage if you don’t know what you’re doing.

split sage
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I’m just looking for a alternative way to get neutral (which doesn’t the case unfortunately), the rest I’m more than comfortable with. It works fine without no neutral anyways, just would’ve be nice as a router

native canopy
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Hi everyone. Just jopined here in hopes of solving an issue I have. So, have HA installed on a Raspi CM, with NMVE SSD as primary boot device. Want to get the ConBee II p and runnig, but for the life of me I can;t find the damn " config.txt" file that turns on the USBs. Spent more than 5 hours looking through posts online. Config.txt is not in /boot ( in fact I don;t eve have boot directory) or in any other mentioned location. Find command also turns up no hits

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has anyone encountered this issue or is there a post somewhere covering a scenario like mine ?

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I'm almost at my whit;'s end with this thing and it bugs be that I;ve los so much time on what should be a simple task

sour shadow
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Sounds like you have HAOS, there's nothing to do

native canopy
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what does that mean ?

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care to expand on that?

sour shadow
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What makes you think the ports are disabled?

native canopy
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tried to get deConz up and running. it doesn;t even start

sour shadow
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Well, start there

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Also, don't use deCONZ

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Use ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT

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deCONZ is the stack from the 90's, it's way behind the times in terms of hardware support

native canopy
rapid dawnBOT
#
Hardware

Open your Home Assistant instance and show hardware information

sour shadow
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Check there to see if the stick was detected

native canopy
sour shadow
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The whole internet is full of idiots too

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Blindly trusting "the masses" never ends well

native canopy
rapid dawnBOT
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@native canopy When using Discord's Reply feature it defaults to pinging the person you reply to, which can get frustrating for the target. Use Shift + click on the Reply option, or click @ ON to @ OFF to stop this - on the right side of the compose bar.

You have to change this every time (thank the Discord devs for that).

sour shadow
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There should be something obviously named deCONZ or similar

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Maybe conbee

native canopy
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huh, can;t post screen caps....

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LOL

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.

mighty river
sour shadow
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All the ones in the top pinned message

native canopy
sour shadow
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@native canopy

native canopy
sour shadow
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Because ZHA is an integration, not an add-on

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And Z2M is but isn't stock

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And... turn off the damn ping

native canopy
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ok, will look into how you;re supposed to install these

rapid dawnBOT
native canopy
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thanks for the info

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"Serial Device Path" for Zigbee Home automation....

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there's nothing there

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so, does this mean I;m back to finding that config.txt file and having to enable the ports on the raspi CM ?

sour shadow
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Have you checked the stick works - in another computer?

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Have you checked the ports work - with a USB keyboard or other known good device?

native canopy
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actually, no, haven't done either

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alright, ConBee works. ALso, on the HA hardware, the USBs are off. keyboard doesn;t work, they don;t even have power

slate nest
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I am new in home automation. I have a problem that zigbee integration fails on daily basis and all the zigbee devices become unavailable. Reload does not help. Only reboot solve the problem . ( current setup: Yellow, integration ZHA). Can someone help me out where to start finding the solution?

sour shadow
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Check what's in the log

rapid dawnBOT
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If you're having problems with your updates to your configuration:

slate nest
sour shadow
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There's going to be something when it breaks, unless you turned the logging so far up that you've got no logs

slate nest
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NCP entered failed state. Requesting APP controller restart

rapid dawnBOT
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Please use a code share site to share code or logs, for example:

Please don't use Pastebin, since it can randomly add spaces to the main view. Please also don't share text as images since it makes it harder for people to help you. Remember that others may have colour blindness, impaired vision, etc.

sour shadow
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Use a code share site, share the whole error

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Snippets of errors don't help anybody help you

slate nest
slate nest
sour shadow
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Well, I know nothing much about ZHA

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But now other people can help you

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You just have to be patient

slate nest
rapid dawnBOT
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@slate nest When using Discord's Reply feature it defaults to pinging the person you reply to, which can get frustrating for the target. Use Shift + click on the Reply option, or click @ ON to @ OFF to stop this - on the right side of the compose bar.

You have to change this every time (thank the Discord devs for that).

sour shadow
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You're in the right channel to get help, but again... I can't help you as I don't use ZHA

slate nest
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I hear you. Thank you for your initial assistance.

native canopy
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except literally nothing there works

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s -lah /dev/tty gives me a singe hit /dev/tty and also lshw command is not supported

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soo I;m really out of ideas on how to handle this

ashen bluff
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Addons don't have access to config.txt or /boot.
Try apk add usbutils && lsusb -vvt.

glass thicket
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Anyone have any recommendations for a good ethernet/network based zigbee coordinator?

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Ive found this one on amazon but $70 US seems quite high

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SMLIGHT SLZB-06 - Zigbee 3.0 to Ethernet,USB,and WiFi Gateway Coordinator with PoE, Works with Zigbee2MQTT, Home Assistant, ZHA
https://a.co/d/6Y2vp3I

tropic depot
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2nd: you are using multiprotocol which has known issues.

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socket://core-silabs-multiprotocol:9999

slate nest
tropic depot
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Your issue potentially stems from the multiprotocol addon either crashing or not being available

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But w/o complete logs I am guessing

tranquil rivet
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I have an odd issue where one (out of 2) of my zigbee lights doesn't fully turn off. It just dims. I tried removing it from HA and re-adding but no change. This is Cree Connected (Regular). I was told it's made by Tuya?

tiny timber
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Having an issue in z2m getting an IKEA E1524/E1810 to join. It joins, starts interview, then leaves the network.

Info 2024-04-09 10:15:24MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/bridge/event', payload '{"data":{"friendly_name":"0x60a423fffebd6a78","ieee_address":"0x60a423fffebd6a78"},"type":"device_joined"}'
Info 2024-04-09 10:15:24Starting interview of '0x60a423fffebd6a78'
Info 2024-04-09 10:15:24MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/bridge/event', payload '{"data":{"friendly_name":"0x60a423fffebd6a78","ieee_address":"0x60a423fffebd6a78","status":"started"},"type":"device_interview"}'
Info 2024-04-09 10:15:26MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/bridge/event', payload '{"data":{"friendly_name":"0x60a423fffebd6a78","ieee_address":"0x60a423fffebd6a78"},"type":"device_announce"}'
Warning 2024-04-09 10:15:33Device '0x60a423fffebd6a78' left the network```
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I have one other that joined fine, so this is weird. Have tried joining via all, and just joining via coordinator. Device is < 1m from coordinator when pairing. Have tried restarting z2m container (though not the host yet).

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And just like that, on the 5th interview attempt, it joined. Weird.

tall rivet
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i already have a thread router on the network (nest home hub 2). will it cause a conflict or will it seamelss extend my existing network?

sour shadow
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i just got a sonoff zigbee E dongle - is

native canopy
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however the question now would be, what now ? what do I need to follow up on ? in Hardware I still cna;t detect any USB devices, so ports still look like they're disabled

ashen bluff
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Show me what the command says.

native canopy
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got this:

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apk add usbutils && lsusb -vvt
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.19/main/aarch64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.19/community/aarch64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
(1/9) Installing hwdata-usb (0.377.2-r0)
(2/9) Installing udev-init-scripts (35-r1)
(3/9) Installing kmod-libs (31-r2)
(4/9) Installing eudev (3.2.14-r0)
(5/9) Installing pkgconf (2.1.0-r0)
(6/9) Installing eudev-dev (3.2.14-r0)
(7/9) Installing libusb (1.0.26-r3)
(8/9) Installing libusb-dev (1.0.26-r3)
(9/9) Installing usbutils (017-r0)
Executing busybox-1.36.1-r15.trigger
Executing eudev-3.2.14-r0.trigger
OK: 320 MiB in 246 packages

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also, when I try running lsusb, I get : "unable to initialize libusb "

ashen bluff
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Hmm. lsusb should work.

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Not sure why USB ports would be disabled or how to check otherwise.

native canopy
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ok, so took out the NVME, plopped it in a PC and manually configured the config.txt file

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indeed, enable_uart was commented out, so that probably was why things didn;t work

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this is what I have now in the USB section of config.txt :

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enable_uart=1
dtparam=i2c_arm=on
dtoverlay=miniuart-bt
dtoverlay=rpi-rf-mod

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but for some weird reason, still no USB dongle detected

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hmm, just noticed I have 2 dtoverlay turned on. Oops

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ok, got the thing Solved.

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also, for anyone running a raspi CM4, this config in the config.txt file seems to do the trick:

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enable_uart=1
dtparam=i2c_arm=on
dtoverlay=dwc2
dr_mode=host

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ans appreciate all the help here, thanks 😄

ember onyx
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Does anyone know why ZHA reports 100% when the battery voltage is at 2.6V?

Getting this issue with all my ZigBee contact sensors.

Got these ones: https://a.aliexpress.com/_olkZKbw

native canopy
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another question about my conbee 2 setup. Can;t seem to get it to connect in ZHA, so was thinking it's maybe becasue I hasve usb 3.0 ? if so, how would one

  1. find out which speed the USB port is running at ?
  2. how to change from usb 3.0 to a usb 2.,0 port on a raspi CM4 HASOS ?
austere patio
native canopy
charred sky
native canopy
ember onyx
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(can’t upload images here)

mellow geode
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Unless the device is quirked, it’s up to the device to reports its battery percentage.

gusty yarrow
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my new zigbee coordinator is throwing bogus values for LQI (255) and that makes the visualization funny with green lines everywhere. However RSSI seems to be reported correctly, is there a way to use that for visualization instead of LQI?

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

📎 message.txt
mellow geode
gusty yarrow
slate nest
trail rampart
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Hi, I have just created backup of Sonoff ZBDongle-P with "python -m zigpy_znp.tools.nvram_read COMXX -o nvram_backup.json", I would like to get info about version of this firmware. I am looking in generated *.json, but I do no see it there. Is there a way to print it out?

trail rampart
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What firmware version do you use now (most used / stable /etc) ? Do you enable hardware flow control on ZBDongle-P - is it stable with it? I am planning to use Z2M on HA...

austere patio
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Let ZHA or Z2M auto-restore your network settings

trail rampart
austere patio
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NVRAM backup won't contain anything that's not on the stick already. None of your device names, settings, or anything else is in there. It's just basic Zigbee network information.

trail rampart
robust sundial
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Hi all. I have two zigbee switches that aren't responding to buttons in lovelace. They used to. In Zigbee2MQTT they show as having a strong signal and are connected in the map. When I check the Zigbee2MQTT logs there's no indication that any action is taking place when I try and toggle those two switches on or off. All other switches of the same brand are showing entries in the log as they are used

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{ "backlight_mode": "normal", "linkquality": 220, "power_on_behavior": "previous", "state": "OFF" }

sour shadow
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Do the controls in Z2M's UI work?

robust sundial
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when I clikc the toggle icon it moves and stays there, I'm actually not at home to see the light itself right now

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the state doesn't seem to have changed in the yaml

sour shadow
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Check in the Z2M UI and with the light when you're home

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if it doesn't work in Z2M either then it's not a HA problem

robust sundial
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yeah will do thanks

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looksk liek Z2M is definitely sending the info, maybe I need to reset those switches

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Zigbee2MQTT:info 2024-04-08 18:19:36: MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Kitchen Fridge Light', payload '{"backlight_mode":"normal","linkquality":224,"power_on_behavior":"previous","state":"OFF"}'

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force remove and rejoin seems to have fixed them

oak pecan
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evening folks. just got my hands on a sonoff zigbee dongle with the intention to move my last remaining devices off of the smartthings hub. is there a compelling reason to use zha over zigbee2mqtt or vice versa?

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if i can trust reddit, looks like z2m is the way

languid sky
oak pecan
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e

languid sky
# oak pecan e

"e" is apparently supported "experimentally" in Z2M -> hence IDK, try both

oak pecan
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i think i'm disabled

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apparently i also bought a skyconnect

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using that with zha seems like a good idea, since it's all first party?

languid sky
sage portal
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Hi. So I'm planning on buying a ecowitt ws90, i already have a zigbee gateway (homey bridge) so I should be able to connect said weather station to it, right? they do sell their own gateway 2000 but I'd rather not buy a 2nd controller if I can avoid it

formal kestrel
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Greetings everyone. I'm not new to Home Assistant and I plan to put HA into Proxmox. I wanted to drop by to see what's the best controller to get?

sour shadow
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Something EFR MGM24 based if you're using ZHA

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For Zigbee2MQTT something EFR MGM24 based if you're happy to live in experimental land (but the new ember driver is getting a lot of love), otherwise CC2652p7 based

formal kestrel
tall rivet
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is there any recommended zigbee firmware that most folks use on your sonoff usb E dongle. just got it recently and wasn't sure if i should be updating it before use on zigbee2mqtt

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or just leave it on stock

sour shadow
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Update it to the latest firmware

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Unlike the P (CC2652) there's no known problems with newer firmware

tall rivet
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which firmware do you recommend? seems there are multiple ones out there

sour shadow
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Whatever the most recent is

carmine hamlet
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Which different ones are you seeing? You don't want the router one, if it exists for E dongles

tall rivet
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is there an official "sonoff" one?

austere patio
# tall rivet is there an official "sonoff" one?

The first one you linked to above is best, as it's minimally changed from the base Silicon Labs coordinator project. Sonoff never released their firmware config and probably won't ever release a new version.

tall rivet
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this is what HA is reporting as the firmware:

Device info
EZSP
by Silicon Labs
Firmware: 6.10.3.0 build 297

austere patio
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That's the one that comes with it

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You can always downgrade if you have issues, it's pretty foolproof

tall rivet
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👍

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thoughts on zha or zigbee2mqtt?

ashen bluff
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I'm thinking you should try both.

tall rivet
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hmmm seems like i Fed something up. dongle not being recognized by HA

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going to try a full restart

tall rivet
austere patio
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How did you flash it?

tall rivet
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using darkxst webflash

austere patio
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When you say the dongle isn't recognized, what do you mean?

tall rivet
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hmmm not sure what happened but now its working with ZHA

dreamy drift
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My understanding is that the Conbee III runs the exact same SiLabs chip as Sonoff E and SkyConnect. Are their firmwares interchangeable?

austere patio
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Theoretically yes but in practice no. Things are hooked up differently to every chip and the radio parameters are going to be slightly different.

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The Conbee III also runs a custom bootloader so you'd have no way to flash firmware (and vice versa)

dreamy drift
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The thing I find interesting is that Z2M supports Conbee III. Whereas other adapters that use the same SiLabs chip are still marked as Experimental.

austere patio
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They're perpetually marked as experimental. The Conbee III (more or less) implements the same serial protocol as the Conbee II so it "looks" and "acts" like one, allowing it to work without many changes with applications that can talk to a Conbee II.

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It may use the same chip as the SkyConnect but the firmware is in no way similar

sour shadow
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To be honest, the EZSP support in Z2M is as stable as the ConBee support, and getting better - it's just not as mature as the zstack support, yet

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That's likely to change now there's a dedicated EZSP dev on Z2M

rich jungle
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I'm looking to grab a few zigbee bulbs to at the very least increase my Zigbee mesh. I've known Hue bulbs to be the "best" but I hear recently they will start requiring login to use. Is it possible to still use these directly with HA (offline/no cloud), or is there an alternative?

sour shadow
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The bulbs are still Zigbee, it's the hub that's going to require login

rich jungle
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So I could just connect the bulbs directly to HA (using HA Yellow) and disregard that entirely?

sour shadow
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Yes

rich jungle
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awesome thank you

sour shadow
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Same for every other Zigbee device on the planet

rich jungle
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ah ok

tender ridge
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You might lose some “exclusive” functionality with some vendors though, the basic on off and color switching will work 👍

onyx junco
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better way to re add a device?

Use ZHA integration and every once in a while a device becomes unavailable. I end up deleting and re adding to fix it. This is after I try removing the battery and adding it back in order to try to "wake" it and also try reconfiguring. When these don't work I end up deleting and adding it back.

Now the issue is sometimes I end up renaming some of the sensors and I need to remember to rename them back after re adding so various dashboards/automations etc work.

So i was curious if there is a better way of doing this that I should look into. So far my googlefu has not resulted in anything.

main ruin
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for zha i usually just start the <add device> thing and then wake the sensor without removing it . it usually reappears and will continue with its previous settings

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stuff dropping off in the first place is probably what needs to be fixed, tho that can have plenty reasons

umbral silo
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hi, i'm having some trouble adding my new skyconnect and am looking for some help. i've got HA running on a synology ds415+ in a docker container. i've tried a few things listed in this thread https://community.home-assistant.io/t/skyconnect-with-home-assistant-docker-in-synology-usb-drivers/504140/17 with no luck. after grabbing the drivers, setting up the task to copy them over each boot, adding devices: - /dev/ttyUSB0 to the compose. i still get a failed to connect message when trying to add the zha integration. what am i missing?

onyx junco
onyx junco
onyx junco
umbral silo
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it seems i had to manually run the script that installs the usb drivers in the thread above.

umbral silo
umbral silo
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plus the tip about the rear usb port 🤔

onyx junco
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Ya that needs to be added as a scheduled task to run on bootup

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Otherwise it sill stop working

#

i have something similar for 6.x

umbral silo
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i need to figure out why i had to run the command manually though

onyx junco
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actually ignore that, i seem to be doing that for wireguard

rich jungle
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Regarding the zigbee mesh, if a Hue bulb is plugged into a socket but the light switch is turned off - this disables the mesh as well, correct?
Meaning you would need to leave the switch powered on and control the on/off via HA or similar?

languid sky
rich jungle
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Err yeah I meant disables it as a repeater/router. Thank you for confirming.

languid sky
distant flume
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well, in a mesh network, any device that can receive messages intended for a different device and pass the message on is a "router" :/ in thread they did a better job of naming the roles a device can have, i think.

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technically there's no "routing" done between a zigbee network and your lan; the protocols are too different for that to make sense. either the coordinator speaks a non-zigbee protocol on the lan side, or it acts like a "proxy" or "tunnel" which can send/receive zigbee packets on behalf of a non-zigbee device.

woeful drum
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Unable to change RGB colors on my Sengled lights, were working fine with Zig2MQTT until recent HA update, now I don't see the color functionality available, everything else works fine. What could have happened?

orchid canyon
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For Zigbee integration into HA does a USB stick work? I was looking at Aeotec Zi-Stick for example

sour shadow
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Yes, see the docs for ZHA

rapid dawnBOT
sour shadow
#

See also the top pinned message (and all the other pinned messaes) for things you should know/do

gleaming merlin
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Trying to use this tool to update the firmware on my Sonoff dongle-P with it plugged into my MacBook https://github.com/git-developer/ti-cc-tool and running into trouble with the serial address of the device. My best guess is that the syntax should be docker run --rm --device /dev/tty.usbserial-10:/dev/ttyUSB0 -e FIRMWARE_URL=https://github.com/Koenkk/Z-Stack-firmware/raw/master/coordinator/Z-Stack_3.x.0/bin/CC1352P2_CC2652P_launchpad_coordinator_20230507.zip ckware/ti-cc-tool -ewv -p /dev/ttyUSB0 --bootloader-sonoff-usb (since that is what shows up in /dev/tty* when I plug in the dongle) but I get error gathering device information while adding custom device "/dev/tty.usbserial-10": no such file or directory.

ashen bluff
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What does ls -l /dev/ look like?

finite pawn
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I have been experiencing a pretty annoying fault with Zigbee lately. I'm using ZHA with a Sonoff Zigbee Dongle Plus. I added a couple new smart plugs and started getting notiifcations about firmware updates in the sidebar of the HA UI. I click through to update the firmware.

Best case: the fw update progress bar fills up a couple percent and the notification pops back up in the sidebar.
Worse case: I get a message that the update attempt fails and I lose connection with my Zigbee coordinator. This is very bad.

gleaming merlin
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@ashen bluff I ended up just using the JelmerT/cc2538-bsl script directly instead of the docker package.. but now I'm concerned I screwed up the dongle after the flash since z2m can't ping it.

> python3 cc2538-bsl.py CC1352P2_CC2652P_launchpad_coordinator_20230507.hex --bootloader-sonoff-usb 
sonoff
Opening port /dev/tty.usbserial-10, baud 500000
Connecting to target...
CC1350 PG2.1 (7x7mm): 352KB Flash, 20KB SRAM, CCFG.BL_CONFIG at 0x00057FD8
Primary IEEE Address: 00:12:4B:00:2E:1E:01:63
>

I guess that's a successful flash message although it only took <1 second? Lookign through the code I don't see any subsequent steps it's supposed to do

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But when I plug it back in and restart the addon I can only get Zigbee2MQTT:error 2024-04-11 09:08:28: Error: Failed to connect to the adapter (Error: SRSP - SYS - ping after 6000ms) in the logs

ashen bluff
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Which dongle is it exactly?

gleaming merlin
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It's the SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB ZBDongle Plus

ashen bluff
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It didn't write anything since you didn't use the flags.

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Also there's a P and a E version of the Plus. SInce it can read it as CC it should be the P but best to check.

gleaming merlin
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it's the P version

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You're right, I was able to reconnect to it after shutting down the VM fully and its still on the old firmware, but at least it isnt fried

ashen bluff
gleaming merlin
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i see. thanks. will try that

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yeah that looks much better 😄

dire owl
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Mt first FW update via the UI just came forthe Ikea Rodret Dimmer. Nice! at 14% after 14 minutes slowly but surely 🙂 thanks

crystal wraith
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I randomly loose my connection to my zha device a dresden conbee usb stick. I have a unraid host -> hassos vm. After restarting home assistant it wont reconnect again. I can see the device in unraid at

/dev/serial/by-id/usb-dresden_elektronik_ingenieurtechnik_GmbH_ConBee_II_DE2132783-if00@

but that does not show up under configuration, only
/dev/ttyS0 - ttyS0
according to unraid it is attached to the vm, and it worked for a home assistant reboot or 2 ... any idea?

sour shadow
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Does Unraid still show it correctly?

mellow geode
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Not sure if related, but UNRAID had an issue with passing through the Conbee at some point. It might still exist, so search the UNRAID forum for this, too.

crystal wraith
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I have the latest unraid version

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it shows in the
/dev/serial/by-id/
"folder"

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and now after a full reboot of everything it just shows ....

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no, still nothing

crystal wraith
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home assistant see something with this name:
/dev/ttyUSB0 - QEMU USB SERIAL, s/n: 1-0000:00:07.7-4 - QEMU
but it just keeps spinning when configuring

austere patio
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The Conbee manages its own USB interface and will effectively unplug and plug itself back in if you stop communicating with it for a few minutes

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If Unraid can't properly handle hotplugging like this, it won't pass through the Conbee to HA when it resets

finite pawn
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Do any of you run two Zigbee dongles? As I understand it this requires running one dongle in ZHA and one in Z2MQTT. I am prepared for this.

I already have a Sonoff Zigbee P dongle. It appears in lsusb as 10c4:ea60. Are there some Zigbee dongles that have different USB ID values?

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I have tried to search and all I can find is people talking about Z-wave and zigbee dongles that have the same USB IDs. I hope to avoid this situation.

austere patio
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Why do you want to run two ZIgbee dongles?

last rain
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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but if the HA host is powered off along with the attached SkyConnect USB. Does the zigbee network continue to function in terms of the mesh?

distant flume
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the only reason i could think of is to split a zigbee network into two if it's sufficiently large or spread out that you get routing or traffic issues :/ (and you'd probably want an ethernet-connected zigbee controller for that)

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iirc if the controller goes offline, the mesh continues to exist, and device/group bindings should continue to work.

last rain
distant flume
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I'm honestly not sure. The reason to use an ethernet controller is mostly so that it can be located physically far away from your home assistant machine.

finite pawn
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I want two dongles because I believe I am experiencing congestion related problems

last rain
orchid canyon
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Anyone know of a zigbee motion sensor that uses AC power? I see there is a zwave one HSM200, does anyone make something like that for zigbee?

crystal wraith
tepid gorge
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What type of device/sensor should I use if I want to turn on a light when it’s getting dark?

sour shadow
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Light (lux) sensor

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Xiaomi do some nice ones

orchid canyon
foggy dome
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has anybody tried zbdongle -E on orange pi 3 lts

sour shadow
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What's the question?

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As long as there's enough power for the USB ports it'll work

carmine hamlet
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It seems like every time an update is released for my Inovelli switches (via Z2M), I update to it and it's quickly pulled from release for reasons that I can't discern. Then I end up with these messages for the forseeable future: Firmware on '0xb43a31fffe2f594b' (VZM31-SN) is newer than latest firmware online.

prisma osprey
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Where are you seeing that error?

carmine hamlet
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It's in the Z2M logs. It's just saying that whatever new version Z2M found and that I (quickly) updated to is no longer available and now Z2M only knows about the older version

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I have a lot of switches and I only managed to update a few of them, so I have a mismash of versions now

foggy dome
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which zigbee bulbs you folks buy, not expensive like hue, can remember its previous state after power outage, preferably rgb + cct and has nice colors, and doesnt break after a week

carmine hamlet
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I have a bunch of fan switches on a newer version that Z2M knows about, and now a couple of Inovelli Blue dimmers

prisma osprey
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In the OTA section what version does it say?

carmine hamlet
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2.17 was in beta for a while and briefly showed up in Z2M as an upgrade

prisma osprey
carmine hamlet
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I updated in that brief window of time

prisma osprey
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fun lol

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Inovelli's a pretty small operation, I bet they accidentally published 2.17 early

foggy dome
carmine hamlet
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all my fan switches are on a newer version and they've been that way for a couple of months

prisma osprey
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ah I don't have any fan switches

carmine hamlet
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it's a result of my upgradeitis

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I foolishly jump on upgrading things that I need to work for my house to work

prisma osprey
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All too familiar lol

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is anything wrong with them or is it just freaking out Z2M?

carmine hamlet
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No, just the log messages. I don't know why the upgrade was pulled, and I don't see any issues with the updated devices

prisma osprey
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if it was me I just wouldn't touch it lol

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that is super weird though

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reddit comments say 2.17 is available via Hubitat?

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that doesn't make sense

carmine hamlet
# 
    {
      "version": "16908815",
      "channel": "beta",
      "firmware": "https://github.com/InovelliUSA/Firmware/raw/main/Blue-Series/Zigbee/VZM31-SN-2-1-Switch/Production/2.15/VZM31-SN_2.15-Production.ota",
      "manufacturer_id": 4655,
      "image_type": 257
    }
  ],
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I guess that was briefly pointing to 2.17

prisma osprey
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I have an Inovelli issue too actually

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I cannot get the button delay to go from 0ms to 200ms on one specific switch. It's very close to the coordinator, high LQI, etc.

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I'll set it to 200ms on Z2M and it will be 0ms when I refresh the page

limber eagle
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Ok so open question. Curious about answers for both zha and z2m...

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I currently have 2 Hue hubs (too many devices for 1) and several aqara hubs.
Plus a skyconnect collecting dust...

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I briefly tried some of the hue products on the skyconnect but I didn't like how the Lutron Aurora dimmers worked. They seemed to often lose connection, even though they were in areas heavily populated by devices which should have served as routers.

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So does anyone have the Auroras and do they work better with one or the other of the setups?

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Also one thing I like about the Hue app is the scenes they offer. I like to add color but I'm not particularly creative at coming up with my own lol. Any other way to get those features?

prisma osprey
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same with Tuya

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are you running the Lutron stuff via the Aqara hub or the Skyconnect?

limber eagle
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Sure but I also have lots of Hue bulbs in the area. Wouldn't just be aqara doing the repeating

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I'm running the lutron with the hue hub at the moment so it's native. I'm saying I didn't like how it worked before with skyconnect

prisma osprey
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ah gotcha

limber eagle
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Also...is there a device limit?

prisma osprey
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i think that depends on the coodinator

#

i could be wrong

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Zigbee itself doesn't have a hard network size limit

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depends on which coodrinator and how many routers you have

sour shadow
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Hundreds of devices

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Currently people on the MGM24 chips are seeing stable setups on 300+ devices

limber eagle
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Ok well I won't be putting that to the test 😆

prisma osprey
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i actually might

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I'm zigbee-ifying a church at the moment

prisma osprey
sour shadow
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Sure

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Or any others on the same chip

prisma osprey
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nice. Thanks!

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so how are y'all running multiple hubs and stuff?

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I'm using z2m on an HA Yellow. If I was to add a PoE coordinator, could I just run another instance of z2m on the same box?

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My reason being that I'm not sure there's a good way to extend the mesh to the second story of this place

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I'm thinking about just running 2 zigbee networks, one for each story

sour shadow
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That's not the recommended way, unless your building is solid concrete/stone

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Just build the mesh

prisma osprey
sour shadow
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So... build the mesh then 😉

prisma osprey
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I will take your advice

sour shadow
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I've got ~100 devices across two floors, and a garage, one mesh

prisma osprey
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What's your preferred router for range extension? Something that is not easily removed ideally, as this is a public space

sour shadow
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Innr power plugs

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But you can flash any CC2652 coordinator with router firmware and run it from USB power

prisma osprey
carmine hamlet
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Any router will be plugged into the wall and thus 'easily removable'

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Unless they're switches

prisma osprey
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Innoveli actually has a zigbee outlet in the pipeline rn that they took down from their website

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but not a plug in deal, it replaces the full outlet

vapid gyro
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hello I hat an Eachen eWeLink ZbBridge Pro Ethernet Zigbee Gateway (ZB-GW03-V1.2) for quite some time and finally got it working as coordinator.
Oh HA I got it working with ZHA and all the connected devices apeared in my HA instance.
Sadly a few sensors could not join the ZHA network, so I decided to switch over to Z2M-Edge.
Deactivated ZHA and got Z2M-Edge up and connected ALL devices and sensors to this coordinator.
I can access devices, sensors and all their info within Z2M but they don't show up in HA the same way I did get them with ZHA.

I tryed to read up on MQTT Discover, but I can't follow the hollow words and circular links within the HA manual.

Any tips on what I need to tweak or where I can find a how to which does nor refere to the M2Z or HA documentations?

Thank you. ❤️

sour shadow
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You've set up MQTT integration in HA?

vapid gyro
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thank you, this lead me to home assistant integration and in the first line a link to MQTT Discovery ...

I did use the HA Integration of Z2M-Edge.

I should paste a line in "configurations.yaml" is this in any way related to the konfiguration fields of Z2M-Edge addon?

sour shadow
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You need:

  1. HA's MQTT integration set up, talking to the same broker as HA Z2M - you can do that entirely in the UI
  2. Z2M configured with homeassistant support
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Have you done both?

vapid gyro
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I'm using EMQX as the broker
I have MQTT integration and Z2M-Edge addon
Both are connected to the broker.

Do I need to tell Z2M how formated it needs to send the messages to MQTT?

Do I need to tell MQTT in HA how this messages are formated?

sour shadow
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No, and no

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install MQTT Explorer and check to see that you can see all the messages from Z2M

vapid gyro
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to 2. do I need to turn on homeassistant support of an addon I do install with HA?

sour shadow
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No, you need to follow the Z2M docs above

vapid gyro
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the docs tell me to paste homeassistant: true in configurations.yaml

sour shadow
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Z2M's config, yes

vapid gyro
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is this configurations.yaml the same place as the setup of the z2m addon in home assistant?

sour shadow
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You can, if it's easier, set it in Z2M's UI

vapid gyro
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I do have a CONFIG/zigbee2mqtt/configuration.yaml
but in there is with:

homeassistant:
legacy_entity_attributes: true
advanced:
network_key:

...
already a homeassistant tag thats why I am confused

sour shadow
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install MQTT Explorer and check to see that you can see all the messages from Z2M

vapid gyro
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MQTT Explorer on mqtt://homeassistant:1883 can connect with same credentials as zigbee2mqtt but I don't see any messages there.

On the other hand, emqx shows messages incoming, but I can't monitor with wildcards 😦

sour shadow
#

So, either you've got permissions locked down on EMQX, or ... nothing is retained

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50/50

vapid gyro
#

the settings in EMQX did work previous to ZHA and Z2M with the bridge posting MQTT to EMQX directly

sour shadow
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Well, ZHA didn't use MQTT

vapid gyro
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well, the bridge did use it to post and I could listen to them via MQTT in HA

#

OK, one step furter:
MQTT Explorer listens to # and $SYS/# for default, but I need to add zigbee2mqtt/# now I do see messages from Z2M.
But that is weired!

sour shadow
#

Now try that in HA's MQTT integration

#

Hidden under the configure button on the integration page

vapid gyro
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settings of Z2M-Edge

mqtt:
server: mqtt://homeassistant:1883
base_topic: z2m
...

why is it not using this base toppic?

rapid dawnBOT
carmine hamlet
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that topic doesn't really matter. When you turn on HA discovery in Z2M, it will point HA to whatever topic you specified

lusty pebble
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Zigbee2MQTT Question
how do you use the authkey set in the config to access the front end? I tried setting it and now I can rech the fronted. I have tried deleting that line from configuration.yaml but the frontend still wont load. I have even tried setting the front end to false restarting and the setting it back to true and restarting and still no dice.

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when I ssh in and try to curl 127.0.0.1:8080, I get an "curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer"

snow roost
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anybody notice a difference on ezsp for the higher baud rate firmware?

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okay I noticed a difference, z2m crashes on startup with a 230400 baud rate so never mind for now

vapid gyro
# sour shadow Now try that in HA's MQTT integration

sorry I missed this step I did set up zigbee2mqtt ad primary topic but nothing happens.
In MQTT settings I can listen to topic zigbee2mqtt/# and I see a lot of messages coming in, but no new devices showing up in HA. 😦

vapid gyro
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In zigbee2mqtt addon it shows a lot of messages on the right side of the window.
I did turn of logging to console and offered logging to file, set log level to warn but still all incoming traffic is showing on the screen. So annoying as it blocks the buttons to interact with the GUI. (can't post screenshot)

ashen bluff
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can't post screenshot
See below.

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.

vapid gyro
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thank you! my apologies!

ashen bluff
vapid gyro
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I see still a lot of issues well after 2 years 🙂
Thank you a lot.
I finally gave up.
Removed EMQX and MQTT.
Installed Mosquitto.
Et voilà!
And now it is working as it should without further setup needed (neither with MQTT nor Zigbee2MQTT)
But now missing on neat features like user credentials and statistics. 😦

median dome
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Hi guys, can someone help me with this error I'm getting in logs? This double slash looks suspicious, but how can i find which device is sending that message?
Received message on illegal discovery topic 'homeassistant/sensor//rate_per_time_unit/config'. The topic contains not allowed characters. For more information see https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/#discovery-topic

carmine hamlet
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Use MQTT Explorer to search for that string

rich jungle
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I'm looking for a repeater/router/range extender similar to this https://tinyurl.com/5rrvj8d5
But can't really seem to find anything that doesn't double as something else as well. This one seems to be out of stock everywhere I can find it but also haven't heard of the brand.
Is there anything like this still - that doesn't double as an outlet?

carmine hamlet
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There's really no point in getting a device that doesn't have some useful function

rich jungle
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its going to be in a location where nothing will be able to access it regardless. I don't have bulbs in my entire house so I can't use those... maybe in my garage opener (actually I should check that)

carmine hamlet
#

What you pointed to is not better, just less

#

So don't plug anything into it

#

You can get any number of cheaper plugs that will do the same job

#

The reason you can't find what you're looking for is that there's no market for it

snow roost
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you can build this, just get a wall wart with USB-A and stick a zigbee adapter with repeater firmware flashed

rich jungle
carmine hamlet
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You'll just have spent more than just getting a plug

rich jungle
#

form > function in this case

snow roost
#

no idea, never did what i suggested

rich jungle
snow roost
#

i see the dongle-e has router firmware but i see zero instructions

snow roost
orchid canyon
molten linden
sharp cliff
austere patio
# sharp cliff Having some trouble figuring Zigbee out, put all of the info in a reddit post as...

I would avoid messing with the Zigbee channel if you've already positioned your dongle optimally. A WiFi scanner will only show you WiFi networks and the signal strength of each network, it won't let you measure noise from other sources (which often times is significant).

ZHA actually performs a noise scan on all Zigbee channels and will pick the best one for you when you set it up. You can see the live scan results if you download diagnostics for the integration.

sharp cliff
austere patio
#

That dialog probably should be worded better. auto is for the current channel change operation, it's not a setting. Zigbee channel changing is a drastic operation and not something that can be done automatically. You manually have to do it each time. auto just lets ZHA pick the best channel after you let it scan.

modern orchid
#

I try to pair my Danalock v3 nordic with Zigbee. It says to be compatible with it but nothing shows up in ZHA. Using Sonoff Zigbee v2

wary harbor
#

trying to update my TubesZB CC2652P2 POE coordinator via the "TubesZB TI CC2652 FW Flasher" addon. I configured it as follows https://dpaste.org/ybKW5 - any idea what i'm missing?

austere patio
#

Did you disable whatever ZigBee integration is communicating with it?

wary harbor
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I have the mqtt integration tho, with the z2m bridge, but it looks like it was disconnected, do I have to disable the mqtt integration?

# 
[D][serial_server:103]: New client connected from 192.168.50.150
[D][binary_sensor:036]: 'Serial Connected': Sending state ON
[D][serial_server:068]: Client 192.168.50.150 disconnected
[D][binary_sensor:036]: 'Serial Connected': Sending state OFF

in the tubeszb debug log

molten linden
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The bootloader likely was not triggered. Try and go to the coordinator’s web front end and trigger the bootloader and the try the addon flasher

wary harbor
molten linden
#

Yeah

wary harbor
molten linden
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Correct

wary harbor
molten linden
#

The option in the addon doesn’t work for all versions, due to me renaming it in ESPHome fw to make it clearer 🤦‍♂️

wary harbor
#

haha, all good! 😄

coarse forge
#

Hi all, I have been battling with Zigbee2MQTT reliability ever since I installed it in HA. Today I realised that it might be related to my Zigbee gateway / hub, which is the Sonoff Zigbee Bridge, flashed with Tasmota. It worked for months but recently has become unreliable.

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I followed some setup guide online, and there's a Tasmota rule which does this: "ON System#Boot do TCPStart 8888 endon", but it doesn't seem to work unless I re-enable the rule, reboot, then Zigbee2MQTT UI in home assistant magically starts working again

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But even then, my devices are not showing in the devices screen, until I press the pairing button on the device, at which point it gives me a popup message saying "xyz device has left the network", which is strange as I didn't see it on the Devices screen before

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I have a Tuya Zigbee mmWave sensor - it works for a while, then randomly stops showing updates to the sensor data in Zigbee2MQTT

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Then when I restart the Sonoff Zigbee hub, it starts working again

#

Soooo. My question is this:

What is the cheapest, most reliable (preferably wired ethernet) Zigbee hub that I can use with Zigbee2MQTT?

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(I already have Philips Hue hub, but guessing I can't use that)

dapper sand
#

right now I'm using a SLZB-06 and having much better luck with it than the Sonoff USB connected Plus-E
the Plus-E zigbee network under ZHA is being flaky as hell but the SLZB-06 ethernet connected side is reliable.

coarse forge
#

Thanks, will try to source that here in UK

dapper sand
coarse forge
dapper sand
#

or Aliexpress

ashen bluff
coarse forge
#

Any idea why my previously-connected zigbee devices just don't show in devices view?

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I can only see the one device I reset by pressing the pairing button

#

I had quite a few other zigbee devices connected before, but they aren't showing in that view.

#

I can reset another one to test, but I'm wondering why they are still somehow there in the background, just not showing

ashen bluff
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You could try opening it in incognito mode to single out a frontend issue.

snow roost
dapper sand
#

i wasn't having issues with distant devices, I was having random command timeouts when trying to turn on/off light groups

limber eagle
last rain
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Migrating ZHA from a SkyConnect to a Zigstar UZG-01.... got the new unit up and running at socket://10.1.1.241:6638. Got a zigbee config backup, HAOS is snapshotted in Proxmox, full backup as of last night. Do i just hit the "Migtate Radio" button and follow my nose?

last rain
sterile shadow
#

Hi everyone, I am fairly new to HA and wanted to start with making my lighting smart. Since I was able to get a hue promo kit with three E27 RGB bulbs and a hue bridge I am curious if there is a difference in the overall stability and user experience of the system between running the system with the hue bridge or without it and directly connecting the bulbs to HA. Has anyone experience with this scenario and may have any recommendations?

vivid parcel
#

Anyone have any of these cheap zigbee PIRs?....
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006453141214.html

What's battery life like on them for lightly trafficked areas (eg hallway) and heavy trafficked areas (eg kitchen)?

I gather they also report light levels. Is that reported periodically or only when PIR is triggered?

orchid tundra
vivid parcel
#

Ok, thanks. All sounds reasonable (didn't need the light sensor bit so no biggie about that).

Might buy a few then.

orchid tundra
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no problem! My only gripe with it in a bedroom setting is that when it detects motion it flashes a blue LED inside it, which can be a bit bright and annoying when you're trying to sleep. Ended up picking up another motion sensor that has a red LED and moving the original one elsewhere where it doesn't flash in my eyes in a pitch black room lol

#

also, just know you need CR2450 batteries for it, not CR2032. That may or may not be something you already have on hand

rapid dawnBOT
#

@ebon ocean I converted your message into a file since it's above 15 lines :+1:

📎 message.txt
ebon ocean
#

I am running homeassistant on my synology nas running DSM 7.2.1-69057 Update 3.
The zigbeestick is showing up on my nas system, the problem i encounter now is that if i start my virtual machine to run home assistant, the zigbeestick is sometimes not showing up in the hardware section of home assistant. I know run this script on my nas: "/sbin/modprobe usbserial
/sbin/modprobe ftdi_sio
/sbin/modprobe cdc-acm
chmod 777 /dev/ttyUSB0
chmod 777 /dev/ttyACM0"

Than unplug the stick and plug it back in. After trying this finally the stick will show up in the hardware section (not all the time).

If i now start mosquitto and zigbee2mqtt the stick will kind of kick out the usb device and it is not showing up in the hardware section anymore. Since now i can't get the usb device working anymore at all.... so i can't also run zigbee2mqtt!

What is wrong?

jagged estuary
#

Hi y'all, I recently bought an Aqara Smart Plug and it worked perfectly, just now it started to turn itself on and off without any physical or Zigbee input, any ideas what that could be? https://postimg.cc/jDvp36zt

mellow geode
#

You’re using some Zigbee remotes when it turns on/off?

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There’s an issue with newer firmware versions of MAEU01 plugs. They have to be downgraded to not always listen to commands sent to group 0.

worldly lynx
#

I’m thinking about going Zigbee for the majority of my Smart Home items, and the first stop on my journey is going to be Light Bulbs. Unfortunately I Rent, so changing switches is unfortunately out of the picture. I have 4 lamps I want to put bulbs in, so what would be the most economical way to do that?

Additionally I want to get a solution for using Zigbee with my Raspberry Pi 3B, and run Home Assistant on that.

prisma osprey
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Both are high quality and act as zigbee routers

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RPi3 is a great base for HA

orchid tundra
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There's some stupid cheap bulbs you can get via AliExpress. Go to their "3 for $0.99" section and search through the lighting section until you find them (remember to make sure they're the Zigbee bulbs). They're nothing particularly special but they do work

worldly lynx
prisma osprey
#

yes, you will need a zigbee dongle

#

There's USB ones that work great

worldly lynx
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Awesome. The IKEA bulbs are about 13.99/bulb which is kinda pricey IMO, but as long as they last I guess!

prisma osprey
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You can certainly go cheaper

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but the quality of the light will be garbage

orchid tundra
prisma osprey
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though some people don't seem to notice. May be worth trying the super cheap bulbs to see if they work

orchid tundra
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Also a USB extension cable. It's not as important on the Pi 3, but if you ever upgrade to a Pi 4, 5, or anything else with a USB 3 port it might be necessary

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Zigbee dongles don't like USB 3 due to electrical noise

prisma osprey
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^^

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My zigbee setup didn't work at all until I moved my zigbee antenna like 2 feet away from my network rack

orchid tundra
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Likewise my dongle is about 3 feet away from the Pi that hosts my HA instance

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Also, an alternative to bulbs that's renter friendly

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These things sit on top of a physical light switch and will physically turn those switches on and off

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I've got one of the previous generation versions of this and it works brilliantly

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They're battery powered so they won't act as repeaters/routers, but they're good devices

worldly lynx
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That’s neat, but the only light I’d control that way is… the Kitchen Light and the Dining Room Light, which are ceiling lights.

worldly lynx
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That would (likely) avoid interference issues

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Eh, ok. Looks like USB Dongles are less of a pain to deal with than a Pi Hat

orchid tundra
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Yeah

worldly lynx
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There’s a few hat options, but somehow none of them are just “plug and play”

orchid tundra
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It's definitely an advantage to USB solutions

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FWIW I stuck my own USB coordinator under the desk where my Pi is

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Required a bit of creative Velcroing, but I haven't had issues with it

ashen bluff
quartz locust
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Hi there. Wondering how to troubleshoot a Zigbee Failed to Start error.

ashen bluff
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Please share the error log.

quartz locust
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Will the Silicon Labs Multiprotocol Log be sufficient?

ashen bluff
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Maybe. That sounds like ZHA which I'm not familiar with.

quartz locust
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How do I upload a log here? I don't see the usual "attach file" link.

rapid dawnBOT
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Please use a code share site to share code or logs, for example:

Please don't use Pastebin, since it can randomly add spaces to the main view. Please also don't share text as images since it makes it harder for people to help you. Remember that others may have colour blindness, impaired vision, etc.

quartz locust
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It is ZHA.

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You know... I feel silly.. I didn't try the first rule of IT.. turn it on and off again..

final kestrel
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Always a zigbee stick with a 2.0 cable