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Closed Official Zigbee SDK2
[App] Xiaomi-mi ZigBee - Main discussion topic (v0.4.1)
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i am thinking of getting some zigbee devices but want to be prepared. I have 60+ HUE lights but they are attached to my Philips bridge and not directly to Homey. Does this still function as a router and extend the amount of devices?
Thanks a bunch!
all new items thats added will route after some time. does here
Is this for everyone? Until now I am happy with how stable homey is... that said I only have some RTS devices directly you hooked up so far. The rest is through different bridges/hubs (Hue bridge and harmony hub).. I want to start adding (Xiaomi) body sensors and door sensors to act as an alarm so it has to be reliable.
probably don’t want to add any powered source as a start. Zigbee should have enough reach for a complete house I’d say, right?
So sadly not reliable at al here. But as you can see some have better experiences.
I started with a bunch of door sensors and all but one worked great. The one that did not work well, was the one placed in the attic. The others are all on ground level (where Homey lives) and the first floor. So, I think it is a distance issue.
To increase the mesh, I bought 3 mains powered curtain controllers. These work fine, but unfortunately do not add to the zigbee mesh as routers. As a result, the wireless buttons and switches I recently added, do not work 100%
They're all Xiaomi (bar my innr bulb) so quite tempted to pick up a Xiaomi hub to use instead of homey at the moment...
i will start with 2 Xiaomi door sensors and 2 body sensors to see if this is something that I can use in “production” later on. For now I will keep my current alarm system.
one thing still; if I would add the sensors to a Xiaomi hub to make it more stable, is there a way to incorpoate the hub into homey flows?
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two floors and homey is in the center of the house on floor one.
cheers!
motion turns on light after sunset, count down set to 120 sec to turn of light (flow turns of light), but with motion enabled count down start from new until no more motion
thanks!
I've a curious problem with the xiaomi human body sensors. They stop working, as at seems, at random. I've got four of them, two seems fine, but the other are problematic.
Restarting Homey will sometimes solving it for a while, sometimes not. PTP does the same.
When I do nothing they start working after ours or days by themselves.
After unlink and re-link them, they are working again. Until they stop.
Homey doesn't give a broken link icon. Its like there freezing or so.
Once in a while it happens to de xiaomi wireless switches as well , but for a short period of time, like a few minutes.
The xiaomi door sensors are always working well.
I've 17 zigbee devices 3 of them are routers, but they don't make a mesh.
Someone who now what is causing this and how can I solve this?
Alas, same as the temp/hum sensors. It takes a while to walk through the interview and in the end it is added as an unknown Zigbee device.
I made a ticket with Athom, who points me to the developer of the program...
Just to be sure: is installing the Xiaomi Zigbee app enough to (should) get it working? Or should i do something with the mentioned Homey Config Composer? I'm beginning to doubt myself....:(