I have x2 Osram Lightify Smart+ outdoor lightstrips. I set them up inside and they connected to the hub (C7 FW: 2.3.5.152) fine. Predictably, when in place outside, this connection dropped. Accordingly I added a repeater on the inside wall closest to where the strips were, the Zigbee graph showed that the strips did not try to connect to the repeater, and stubbornly stayed trying to connect unsuccessfully directly to the hub.
I set this up just a couple of metres away from the outside strips and it connected to Hubitat successfully. Yet the Zigbee routing still has not changed to use it, despite forcing a Zigbee rebuild by unplugging Hubitat for circa 30mins.
Also, the new Zigbee Graph showed the Osram Outdoor Plug as a green 'lonely' device and not as a repeater, would that be because it uses a repeater to link to the hub? Or is this device not a repeater for some strange reason?
Does anyone have any ideas? Would factory resetting the strips and then trying to pair them 'in place' as there is a repeater outside help/change anything? I really thought Zigbee was 'self healing' and I wouldn't need to worry about this at all. Yet here I am!
Thanks in advance for any advice on how to fix this.
To update, I removed the outdoor repeater which I paired in place and ultimately didn't show on the Zigbee graph as a repeater. I re-added it near the hub and now it does show as a repeater. So I've now relocated it outside in the hope that it re-routes (currently it's not useable because it is now too far away from the hub), then when it hopefully does link to an indoor repeater, I'll try to re-add the lightstrips, (which I've since removed and factory reset), in the hope that they will ultoimately link to the outdoor plug.
So this seems to have worked for now, however, the Zigbee Graph really isn't making any sense to me - it is showing that the furthest away strip (outside strip top) is seemingly connected directly to the hub, which is basically not possible without a repeater given the distance and walls - nothing has worked this far out directly, ever. So it has to be using a repeater somewhere, but unless I'm reading it wrong it isn't? See below graph (I've highlighted the 3 devices that are outside, including the Osram repeater plug).
The Zigbee Graph isn't an actual mesh map; its representation becomes less relevant to the actual mesh topology when links in the mesh are more than one repeater 'deep'.
It's useful to visualize the information that the 'getChildandRouteInfo' page provides, but for some links, that data only tracks what single hop neighbor repeaters are being used as first-hop 'vias' to other repeaters (likely not shown at all in the graph if they have no direct link to the hub).
