Sonoff ZBMINIL2 and Martin Jerry Stuck in initializing

I am having troubling pairing a Sonoff ZBMINIL2 to my Elevation Hub,

I am beginning to think my hub is essentially a $180 brick, as it cannot pair these devices when my Echo Show 4th Gen has no problem connecting to them.

I have 7 of these devices. When I try to connect them to the Hubitat, they will not connect, and get caught in initializing.

I had all 7 connected before, and then two stopped responding. So I reset those two, and could not get them to repair. I decided to wipe the habitat and start from scratch, and now none of them can pair with the Hubitat.

I then tried to see if my Amazon Echo Show 4th Gen could find one of them and connect to them. It did so seamlessly. (I know that it has a fuzzier handshake, etc., I just wanted make sure the Sonoff devices were not dead).

So I disconnected the device from the Alexa, and tried pairing again with the Hubitat, again, it finds the device and sticks on initializing. I have tried with sending in the clear and without repeaters, nothing changes. I have lowered the power to 8 and have tried channels, 11, 15 and 20. Nothing seems to work.

I am a wits end. Can someone tell me how to get past the initializing phase. This is happening with all 7 Sonoff ZBMiniL2's and one Martin Jerry Zigbee switch. The only thing I can successfully pari to my Hubitat are my contact sensors.

Use the Double Luck voodoo to pair the Martin Jerry (Tuya under the hood) and Sonoff switches.

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