Yeah I'm out 9 plugs.. thinking about sending them to my dad along with the fake almond router I bought and hacked to upgrade the plug's firmware. Maybe he can use that as a simple home automation platform / wifi setup. The interface is kinda nice.
If I had to do it over I might have just bought another HE hub for every 32 Zigbee devices. When I bought my second hub, I just added my end devices until I reached 31 devices and then waited a couple days before adding repeaters and the rest of my devices. I didn’t have any issues with devices dropping off the mesh. It was just 2 days though. Of course the battery life probably would have been terrible.
Oh....if only it were. Unfortunately I don't think we're that lucky. Love that positive attitude though!!! 
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Why would you buy a second hub for 32 devices? You should be adding your repeaters first, then your end devices. Not the other way around. The only way that you are going to be able to fix that now is by doing a forced heal of your zigbee mesh. But in general, you should always start pairing repeaters first, then end devices.
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Cheapskate. 
I got 8 of the darn things. Two that'll continue to be used with an Almond router. The other six will join the unused devices in my garage.
Not sure what the problem was, but I used to see, at random times, this in the zigbee table:
status:Active, age:0, routeRecordState:0, concentratorType:None, [Lightify Smart Switch 3, A72F] via [repeat 5 living, 171F]
status:In Discovery, age:0, routeRecordState:2, concentratorType:High Ram, [null, 0000] via [null, 0000]
status:Unused
Couldn't track down "null device" but I started removing devices and it stopped after I removed the peanut plug. (took a couple of weeks) It's now in my "not to use" drawer.
My experience, FWIW:
I've been using mostly SmartThings Outlets for switching, with a couple of Leviton Z-Wave outlets for outdoor-ish stuff. Never a problem, never a slowdown, all LQIs in the 250s (except for the one Zigbee switch inside a metal fan housing, which hovers in the 180s).
Hearing good things about them elsewhere, and liking the form factor, I decided to buy a Peanut to test. It was plugged into an outlet in my Office, about 15 feet away from the Hubitat, with three of the ST outlets within 10 feet.
Within a day, the mesh started to malfunction - a random device LQI would drop into 80s, then repair itself in an hour or so, and then another random device would drop.
After three days of watching this, the Peanut got pulled. When three days went by without a single mesh hitch, the Peanut went into the circular file.
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Yeah, I know I know. I paired my peanuts first with my first hub and you can guess how that turned out.
Edit: I had a lot of trouble getting devices to pair with the hub when I was switching from ST. Especially difficult were the Lightify 4-button switches, which took multiple attempts with each of the 10 switches. One of them I could never get to join and threw it away 🤦🏼 They all joined without issue to the new hub.
Just out of curiosity.
What are the steps to pair the iris plugs?
Is there a two step process for zigbee and zwave ?
That's about what I spent on the four I just removed. I have no hard data to support anything for this next statement, but I have noticed my Yale Zigbee lock on the front door seems to be more responsive now since replacing them.
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I concur with that sentiment. I will have hard data in about a week or two, but for now, my automations seem "snappier" without the Peanuts. They're mostly based on zigbee sensors triggering Lutron lights.
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Yes.
Zigbee:
- Reset the plug (press the button while plugging it into the receptacle. release as soon as you see a blue light. It will slowly pulse blue.
- Start zigbee device discovery - the plugs will be detected almost immediately as a "generic zigbee outlet".
Z-Wave:
- Start z-wave device discovery.
- Hold the button in until the light begins to blink. It will be discovered as a "z-wave device"
Drivers:
You don't need any drivers, but may choose to use both of these:
I would recommend using them - the Smart Plug driver provides a lot more information than the generic driver. And the repeater driver lets you regularly assess repeater health. Both awesome contributions from @srwhite.
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How reliable are these to act as zwave
Repeaters ?
Depends on the firmware version. I have enough powered z-wave+ devices, including 5 Aeotec Range Extender 6, so I am not using them as z-wave+ repeaters.
Just ordered the Iris plugs from eBay. Hopefully these will improve my mesh when I split off the Lightify lights.
Get them from alex_sari? One of my five needed a factory reset. Although it paired initially, it would shut itself off. After a full reset, I paired it again, and it has worked fine since then.
I’ve seen z wave repair, and any time i add a device i try and use that. I looked for a zigbee Repair.....can you tell me where to find that please.
Thanks.
Mac
Good to know.
This is who I purchased from.
You shouldn't have to run a zigbee repair. Zigbee networks are supposed to be robustly self-healing. So there is no "zigbee repair". If you absolutely feel like you have to do this, then turn off the zigbee radio for ~20 minutes and then turn it on again.
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There is none afaik - the network should be self-healing. You can turn off the zigbee radio for ~20 minutes and the devices go into some sort of panic mode and will rebuild when turned back on but I think but that's it as far as HE goes. I don't know if that is a recommended way to handle things or not.
ninja'd by @aaiyar!!! 
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