Generic zigbee lights intermittent problem with iris and hue motion sensors

There are plenty of reviews on Amazon (and reports over here) that Innr plugs work well as repeaters with Hubitat. I just want to point out that the deal @ogiewon linked to is a better deal and will build a zigbee mesh throughout your house.

Also, in addition to being considered excellent zigbee repeaters, those Iris/Centralite outlets provide power consumption statistics.

Finally, the Iris outlets can be independently paired as z-wave repeaters to Hubitat - meaning each outlet increases the robustness of both your zigbee and zwave meshes.

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Aaiyar, I don't doubt you are right on iris / centralite but I switched from wink only because I had to. Had 4 bulbs on it that I was content with for years. Made the "mistake" (lol) of thinking it would be cool to add a few motion detectors. I am now over $300 into this and have 4 bulbs and only one working motion detector. I'm just not sure i want to mess with a whole house system. This seems like way too much work for the benefit. I want something I can set and forget about, maybe the occasional power down, power up. Yeah it's only another 30 some dollars but it feels like throwing good money after bad at this point. I don't think I will be expanding anytime soon with what I've experienced so far. Might reassess if things run smoothly for a year. But thank you. If I was driving in, I would go that route. I would definitely push building the mesh for new users before they buy any battery operated sensors or bulbs.

The thing is, mesh networks are much more resilient when one increases the device density. Thus, adding more devices (carefully chosen) will make the system more reliable.

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I agree, bearing in mind that only line-powered devices repeat (unless they are specifically designed not to).

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If all you really want is a few light bulbs and motion sensors, why not simply invest in a Philips Hue lighting system instead? You can even reuse your GE Link bulbs. The Philips Hue system is pretty bulletproof and may be all you need at this point in your home automation journey (based on your most recent feedback.) The nice thing about the Hue bridge, is that it can easily be integrated with pretty much any other home automation system, should you decide to expand your home automation requirements later on.

Sengled bullbs do not work with a Hue bridge. And you probably will need to mostly use Hue branded motion sensors ( I am not sure if other brands will work.) Hopefully you can still return some of the items you've recently purchased to recover your costs.

Just an idea :thinking:

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Ogiewon, That might have been an option I should have considered. Only looked at HE and Smartthings. Went with HE because of the ability to control without the cloud and didn't want to get screwed again if smartthings decided to go subscription based like wink did. Can Hue run local only or does it need cloud as well?

That is an excellent question. Unfortunately, I am not a Hue expert. Hopefully another community member knows which parts of Hue run locally, if any.

Here is some information I found online.

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While the hue mobile app needs an internet connection to work with the hue bridge, our hue integration does not.

Does this mean that HE will continue to work with Hue v1 bridges?

possibly, though without their app you can't add/remove/configure devices, so not something i would want to fart around with...

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I recently (within the last 30 days or so) added 5 Cree bulbs and a gledepto controller to a V1 bridge I purchased from eBay. I had no problem adding the devices and getting it to work with HE. The hue app (not the current version) will work on your local network but not over the internet. I can control the lights via HE over the internet.

The bridge was $9 shipped and works great.

you are promted to use the old hue app when you try and set it up. It's still available for download, at least on Android.

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Also available on iOS.

I think it's brilliant that the Hubitat Hue integration still works with obsoleted v1 bridge! No need to upgrade if all one needs is a Hubitat integration!

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Update:
After getting the Innr and Ikea outlet repeaters set up and leaving it alone for 48 hours I added in two of the iris motion detectors 24 hours apart. I then waited another 24 hours before adding some simple automation for the motion detectors and Sengled lights. Been up and running now for about a week without any problems. The repeaters do seem to be the key. I never would have thought they could have made that big of a difference with the short distances I am using between my hub and end devices.

Thanks for all you help. I wonder how long it will be before I'm crazy enough to try adding something else.:grin:

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:wink:

Glad to hear things are working better for you!

:+1:t2: if I only would have listened from the beginning :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Only the newer ones with the power amp. I have an older one(2018) and it creates problems with zigbee devices within a ~25 foot radius when activated. If I disable the sensor, all the automations start working reliably again. When the sensor is enabled it's a downward spiral.
It also has tons of errors
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