distant hearth
I have several Aqara TRVs throughout my house, including two in my office. From my office, my HA box (a Pi 4 or 5, I forget which) with the Sonoff Zigbee 3 thing can se the two in my office, but none of the TRVs that are downstairs.
My understanding is that I need some devices that can act as "Zigbee hub". Is this correct? I'm hoping there are some light fixtures / bulbs or light switches that can act as hubs.
Thanks!
pseudo saddle
You have one hub or coordinator in the entire mesh. Certain devices can act as repeaters— typically this is any device that receives mains power with the exception of some zigbee bulbs.
So most zigbee light switch, plug in or wired outlets should work as repeaters.
surreal quarry
Usually called routers. Repeaters are router only devices. I find them quite useless for most people.
Note that neutral only devices like some light switches or modules tend do not act as routers.
distant hearth
Perfect, I'll get some Aqara Smart Plugs; I've been very happy with Aqara.
Next questoin is slightly harder: I have a barn that's 70m away. What's the best way to get devices over there? Should I just set up another Pi with HA in the barn, and then is there a way to have one HA instance control another?
pallid patrol
ZWave LR (Long Range) is supposed to be able to cover that distance, might look into that.
distant hearth
I'm game for anything, but I don't want two HA instances to log into 😛
pseudo saddle
ZWave LR (Long Range) is supposed to be able to cover that distance, might look ...
I think all your devices in the barn would need to be Zwave LR though right? Because LR does hub/spoke not mesh?
pallid patrol
That's my understanding, but I don't know 100%.
distant hearth
I guess maybe a second HA instance might be the only good option. :/
Or wifi devices, I do have ethernet running to the barn.
pallid patrol
You could have a Pi running a separate zigbee network with zigbee2mqtt
that would report back to your main HA
surreal quarry
Next questoin is slightly harder: I have a barn that's 70m away. What's the bes...
Do the devices have to be in the same zigbee network? You could have multiple ones. Not sure if ZHA supports that though.
I'd recommend a ethernet coordinator instead of a pi and a coordinator.
distant hearth
I've never heard of an ethernet coordinator
That sounds interesting. Any recommendations?
surreal quarry
My recommendation would be SLZB-06/SLZB-06M. I use the former with Zigbee2MQTT.
fierce crystal
ZWave LR (Long Range) is supposed to be able to cover that distance, might look ...
Do you know what series coordinator you need to Zwave LR?
pseudo saddle
it definitely works with 800 series
https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/collections/controllers/products/zooz-800-series-z-wave-long-range-usb-stick-zst39 I'm using this @fierce crystal
fierce crystal
I have a jump to my other building, and with 3 devices on the outside wall of the house, and 3 on the facing wall of the garage, it usually connects. Might want to add this BC a switch went bad that was tasmota, might do this...
I have a 500 series aeotec
pseudo saddle
I want to say my old coordinator was 400 series. Took me a full day to migrate but it was worth it.
also moved to Zwave JS UI at the same time + updated all of the entity naming throughout
fierce crystal
Well I pinned that in my browser...