#Aqara Battery Sensors Not Connecting to Zigbee2MQTT

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pliant radish
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Does anyone else struggle to connect Aqara battery sensors to Zigbee2MQTT (Door, Leak, Vibration, etc).

Eventually they will but sometimes it takes so long to get them to work, I Permit all to join, and just keep pressing the reset button over and over again to no luck until randomly it will work.

I go to the Aqara Hub and it works within half a second.

Ill take any recomendation at this point. I personally love the Aqara sensors, once they are connected I rarely have an issue with them but getting them connected is a pain.

I am sitting on like 25+ of these sensors I bought I just haven't spent the time to set them up cause of how annoying it is.

storm drum
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are you pushing the reset button long enough? like 30 seconds..

pliant radish
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The button Press should only be around 5 seconds

pliant radish
storm drum
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ok, is your hub still connected? Sensors trying to pair with hub first instead of z2m?

pliant radish
storm drum
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zigbee coordinator attached directly to pc or with an extension cable?

pliant radish
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Directly to PC

storm drum
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i had better results with extension as adviced, but maybe unrelated.. Wifi channel router/accesspoint interfering with zigbee channel?

pliant radish
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I have 93 Devices connected through Z2M

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But its not impossible

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When it would pop up and start pairing i would get " Error: Interview failed because can not get node descriptor"

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This seemed to be fixed when i saw it start pairing i put it directly next to my server and then it didnt happen again

storm drum
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just trying to rule out user config issues, so HA can troubleshoot without doing the basics first

pliant radish
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I have alot of zigbee traffic, every switch and light in my house is zigbee

storm drum
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with extension usb you will have better signal

pliant radish
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Why do you think that?

storm drum
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because your antenna is now directly placed to a metal box...

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😉

pliant radish
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I meannnn

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This is where my server is

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storm drum
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is you buy a zigbee dongle from HA, you will get cable standard for that reason

pliant radish
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Mini PC housing is plastic...

storm drum
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half a meter is enough

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ok

pliant radish
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I would expect more latency in a USB extension than plugging directly into that PC tbh

storm drum
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dont think so..

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but its def. signal related.

pliant radish
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But every other zigbee connecting is perfect

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Once they are connected they are perfect too

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My mesh seems organized how id expect

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