Upgrading from a C5 to a C8 has been nothing short of terrible. Every single ZigBee device in my house has now quit working. Every attempt to make things work have resulted in more things breaking. I'm returning it, I'm putting my C5 back in place, and I'm going to switch to HA. It's not worth the t…

[image] user4444: Goodbye C8 Sorry you've had an unpleasant time. [image] user4444: not worth the time and frustration Funny - to each his own, but that's generally how I feel about HA. :wink:

If I were having such radio problems I'd be looking for some relief too. I'm not looking to give up as IMO Hubitat's automation abilities are better than HA's. What I would do is to use HA for the radio networks and pass them back to Hubitat using: [image] [RELEASE] Home Assistant D…

[image] user4444: I'm putting my C5 back in place C7s are still available and work fine as a C5 upgrade.

I made the foolish mistake of thinking that perhaps deregistering this cursed device and re-registering it may help. It will not go past the registration screen now. I boxed it up, started the return process with Amazon, and will now get back to work trying to get things working with my C5. I honest…

[image] bill.d: What I would do is to use HA If all you need is another network then I would suggest just using zigbee2mqtt + mosquitto + node red + @fblackburn 's excellent set of node red nodes to do this. The added benefit is that you can use node red for automations as well.

Thanks, I'll look into this. I just attempted to pair a switch that the C8 couldn't pair with, and the C5 worked on the first try. It's definitely the C8 that's the problem. But with the money I get back from returning it, I'll probably buy some dongles to get started with something else.

I guess folks have forgotten what the C7 was like when it was first released. There were definitely growing pains back then as well. Granted that was a result of the zwave chip, but it all has ended up working out at this point. New versions of things are almost always going to have some sort of iss…

So true, some of the early C7 days were dark indeed.,:dizzy_face::wink: Next new hub, let's only give it to people who won't have issues. You're welcome, problem solved.

[image] user4444: buy some dongles Just a note - the sonoff dongle e uses the same chipset as the C8 and support on zigbee2mqtt is still experimental AFAIK. Might be better to get the dongle p (slightly older, but works fine) or a Conbee2 (I have both but the conbee works fine for me so can't…

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danabw March 18, 2023, 1:33am 9

Or this...

[DEPRECATED] Zigbee2MQTT Routing Driver v1 Custom Drivers

Deprecated! There's a Version 2! Check out the new version. It's backwards-compatible and includes device control. Backstory Until fairly recently I had no idea what MQTT was, or why I'd want to use it. That changed with my Hildebrand Glow driver for UK smart metering, which relies on it entirely. Once I understood that MQTT is essentially just a very quick and lightweight network messaging system and that support is already built-in to Hubitat, what Zigbee2MQTT might mean bec…

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