#I am looking for a WIFI door sensor with a battery. Preferably Tasmota

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stoic bane
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Can anyone recommend a WIFI door sensor. Battery powered.
I have a zigbee sensor but it keeps losing connection.
I think i mitigated it but we are in the mode: If it breaks again we are moving the door sensor to WIFI.
We only have 1 sensor (Dad's house) so it's not a problem. We just want a reliable one to work with HA as it is a 'sign-of-life' sensor.

Thank for your attention.

cobalt dove
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I have a cheap Chinese one with a Smlight SLZB-06 ZigBee hub and works perfect, with around 50 ZigBee devices in the same network

stoic bane
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I turned of wifi 2,4Ghz yesterday. My dad called this morning his RoboVacuum is not working. Me: "Oops that uses 2.4Ghz". I turn on WIFI. 5 mins later BEEP device offline (I have a script that sees when it goes offline).

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Yes i tried another one, i added new battery. Old one works perfect in my house

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I have a Conbee stick in it iirc. It worked for MONTHS and then it starts failing. I had it before and it fails a few times then was good for at least a year. My suspicion is it was caused by the auro channel changes of the Internet router and ZIgbee router.
But enough about that 🙂

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Or Texas Instruments CC2531 either one. Anyway it worked fine for ages. I am looking for a WIFI door sensor though

teal pier
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If you search for 'Wifi door sensor' you will find plenty of them. However WiFI is consuming much more power than a zigbee sensor, therefore doubt it would be better in the end requiring battery replacement every so often. If you go for Wifi would consider a 240V one.
You can fix the wifi-channel on the router to one not interfering with your zigbee network

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zenith hollow
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first of all - you are using a usb extension cable that is at least 0.5m on that usb stick to get it away from the noise in your ha server, right?

if the above is ok, run a wifi scanner (app on cellphone or anything else) to see which channels strong nearby wifi networks run on and check against the zigbee channels in the chart above

using a wifi sensor usually means integrating ha with the sensors cloud service. and suddenly you can do that from your own ha instance in your home. if monitoring this door is all the ha at uour dads house does then you can remove the whole thing