Have you tried changing the channels? I had a problems keeping things connected and then I did a scan of local wifi signals (fortunately my AP can do that) to determine channels and signal strengths and then changed my own wifi and zigbee channels to be as far away as possible in my case wifi 12 and zigbee 13.
I also took advice from the community and moved all my bulbs off and swapped to hue based bulbs.
So far it's been pretty solid over the past week. One day I might even test to see if they survive an outage
Yup, I have tried all (and I mean all) over a long period.
I have no ZLL devices on HE, I keep them on Hue. I also removed any bad repeaters I found when scanning with my Xbees.
They would pair fine, but just wouldnt stay fine. They'd drop after a few hours. In the end I gave up, and at least now I have less stress and more time on my hands
But like I say, perviously these devices were fine, I'd had them on HE with no problems for over a year.
Fantastic! If I wasn’t getting the good results from the Aqara HomeKit hub, this would be my preferred choice. Very well written instructions indeed.
Great that there is an option that doesn’t require one to be deep into Apple gear.
For anyone else interested in duplicating @Royski's setup, I did a search on eBay/AliExpress/GearBest/Banggood for the cheapest price on the Xiaomi Mijia Gateway (model: DGNWG02LM) - the same unit described above by Roy.
The cheapest I found was on AliExpress, at the Mi smartHome Store. The base unit (fits Chinese wall-socket) is $21.40. With any other socket adapter (EU/UK/AU/US), it is $22.30.
That particular AliExpress store accepts PayPal, with a surcharge of $0.90. So my total checkout price was $23.20.
Interesting that it decided to simply fall off like that. I wonder if there was a new AP introduced in your area (neighbour replacing their gear for example) that caused this.
Still, it underlies the potential fragility of these systems. Fortunately I have the same hub as you so if mine goes to crap I have another route to go.
Hi @Royski
First of all, thanks for posting this and passing on the info. Much appreciated.
I have an RPi and have followed the instructions and installed 'docker' OK.
Looking at the github repository I can see all the drivers which are still correct for ST.
I'm assuming you just converted these to use with HE? (replace physicalgraph with hubitat).
I haven't got a MiHome hub yet but may order one if I get problems with these devices again.
Is there any other pertinent info that you think we may need to know?
Also, how are these behaving for you now. Any issues or have they been solid for you.
Thanks again.
The drivers are for HE, so all good.
Mine have been solid, and once back to work next week (from home ) I’ll be moving all others over. Speed of execution has been very good too, so no complaints here
I have the token.
Everything was good from points 1 to 9.
This is what I'm seeing in the Mi Connector app. I'm using an RPi with docker installed.
Never used it before so I'm not sure what else I need to do with 'docker'.
Ah ok, so on that part you need to follow the install part for either Docker or the rPI from here mate.
Once thats installed, you navigate to the http://Mi_connector_IP:30000/ address and thats where you pick up step 10. Maybe I should have been more clear there, but did assume that would be already done
Can you clarify for me what the Server Address Device and External Network address device would be.
i.e. is one the RPi and the other the Mi Home hub.
Thanks again.
