Thanks for all the updates. Ironically, my Aqara sensor hasn't fallen off since my last post here. I guess my threatening it worked
I'm still on lucky channel 13. Have been since the beginning, and my test hub is on channel 20. Interesting note about the preferred channels for Konke. Same boat as you @aaiyar. Way too invested in my current channel 13 to rock that boat. It's been working so far, so I wouldn't want to change it for one sensor.
Pertinent to your question that made me try my "Peanut" Hubitat, according to getChildAndRouteInfo, Konke Temp/Humidity sensors can route through Peanut plugs.
Edit - also, without your having urged to try both Hubitats, I would have only tried the Tradfri Hubitat, gotten frustrated, and tossed them in the garage catch-all junk box. So thank you!
Funnily I tried the Peanut Hubitat first; they pair so quickly and in place. I tried all kind of crap with the Tradfri Hubitat. Right next to the Hubitat. Reboot the Hubitat. Next to a repeater - nothing worked, so I googled .....
That GitHub link I found has three people on it stating they had to change to a supported channel (15, 20, or 25) to get these things to work. I'll bet if my Tradfri Hub was on Channel 15, instead of 23, it would have worked.
The real test of the claims on GitHub will be when @JasonJoel gets his Konkes.
And not like it was a major investment or something. If you end up not using yours, and mine stay connected, I'd be interested in buying a couple off you.
The temperature readings are very accurate. Don't know about RH yet.
Thanks. It is RH that I’m interested in. I have temp sensors all over and don’t use those values from any of them. My need is modest: A sensor that measures RH, communicates with HE, stays connected, and preferably is small.
The RH readings look ok, but I don't know if they are accurate. I will find out by Friday. I've got a psychrometer/thermometer/hygrometer but it's loaned out to a friend.
The battery readings are off. Only two of them are reporting battery levels. One is at 67% battery and the other is at -67% battery.
If it were a driver problem, then you’d expect either the same results on each device, which are identical, or you would expect the radically different results wouldn’t be consistent off between devices, but they are. The driver probably is to blame actually, I don’t disagree, but the compensation value doesn’t work because the value jumps all over the place within the same sensor. Both do that, but at different ends of the scale.
Those sensors have built-in monitoring and beep when low. Good enough for me. I know roughly their battery service length and I test leak sensors once a month or so.
It kinda makes sense to me. Konke's hub handles both Zigbee and WiFi protocols. Maybe they are trying to avoid interference with the most popular 2.4 channels within in their own ecosystem.
Makes sense. That's a logical explanation. If I were doing it, I would restrict their hub to those three channels. So the devices could use the entire range of possible channels (with other hubs).
I also understand why they would recommend those channels. But making devices ONLY work on them is silly.
Anyway, as I'm a glutton for punishment, if/when it doesn't work on 17 or 18, I may try 25 again (and take better notes on which of my devices don't work on 25).