hey, i recently purchased a zigbee antenna and some devices but unfortunately the antenna doesnt even reach the next room so i thought i might set up the antenna somewhere else but how would i connect it to the server again?
#zigbee antenna bad signal
ashen lark
sly shell
What devices do you have? Can you share a picure of that "antenna"?
ashen lark
it is one of those and tried it with those plugs
sly shell
We usually refer to this as a coordinator. This one has to stay plugged into your server but there are ethernet ones like the SLZB-06 you can put anywhere you have networking. How far are those plugs away, how many walls in-between and what type of walls/thickness? Indoor range for zigbee is often said to be in the single digits.
waxen quail
You've tried those in the same room and they work?
ashen lark
yep but one german wall further and nothing
waxen quail
It is also possible to host the coordinator in a different location than the server if you have like an extra RPi or similar, then connect over zigbee2mqtt.
but a networked coordinator may be simpler/cheaper
ashen lark
i just have to run the docker container with the antenna on the pi and select the ip i guess in ha?
waxen quail
with zigbee2mqtt you run a mqtt server (e.g. on the HA server), and then zigbee2mqtt talks to the mqtt server.
sly shell
Please don't call it an antenna. The antenna is only part of it. You'd have to install a service on the pi that provides the USB port via network first. Or rather a serial to network service.
I'd try it with more routers first. Also read this:
ashen lark
Please don't call it an antenna. The antenna is only part of it. You'd have to i...
is that something i have to specifically do? since for the ha docker install im using i just gave it the com port and it worked out of the box
waxen quail
I was saying you install zigbee2mqtt ON the remote pi. in that case you wouldn't need to do anything with networked ports
you don't provide the USB port to the network in that case
but that's an alternative option I guess
ashen lark
It is also possible to host the coordinator in a different location than the ser...
which one do i select in ha? i dont see zigbee2mqtt
waxen quail
Generally you don't do anything in HA with zigbee2mqtt.
you setup MQTT integration
zigbee2mqtt then publishes discovery packets to MQTT
and devices are auto added that way
HA won't know you're even using zigbee in that case, all devices come through MQTT
But I don't really know what you've setup here yet.
ashen lark
But I don't really know what you've setup here yet.
i was about to start doing it, is it gonna work with the docker version of ha?
since docker doesnt have add-ons
waxen quail
then you just need to run a MQTT server yourself in a separate docker container
shouldn't be too hard, should work
anything that's an addon can be replaced by you just running that software yourself in another container
ashen lark
i dont understand, already tried chmod
ashen lark
my bad but im stuck on this, i already tried using "if z2m doesnt start"
ashen lark
update: the normal zigbee stick in ha doesnt even work properly inside the same room