Tuya Loratap Zigbee Repeaters Offline?

I have quite a few of those Tuya LoraTap Zigbee Extenders, but ever since March 30, 2025, these have now been appearing "Offline". I use the Zigbee Monitor Driver with these.


I tried Resetting them by following the instructions on the Hub Device Page:
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They are not receiving messages in the Zigbee Details page:

The Zigbee Map is also no longer showing them.

Has these happened to anyone before? Do I need to use a different driver for these now? Does anyone have a recommendation?

I've had mine drop off occasionally, probably due to RF or electrical (power bumps) noise. :person_shrugging:
Usually all it takes is a power cycle to get them back, but once in a while it requires a reset of the device and then re-pairing with the hub.
USB inline power switches work great for the five on/off power cycle sequence to reset/start pairing on the repeaters.

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Yeah, I basically just had to repair all of them. It wasn't the driver. I'm using the same driver still and it's working great. Kind of a pain in the butt because I have to freak out the Zigbee network by turning off the hub for 20-30 minutes, so it would re-establish more optimized routing patterns again. It's just weird that ALL of them fell off on the same day. I understand one or two randomly falling off.... but all is just weird. Almost as if there was probably hub update that killed them or something.

The Zigbee Monitor Driver just reads the information from the Repeater and lets you see what it is doing. It is not involved in the actual routing of Zigbee messages, that happens at the Zigbee stack level (hardware).

The fact that both the Monitor Driver and the Hub agree that you are not seeing any messages indicates they are not functioning. I would do as someone else suggested and power cycle one or more of these devices to test. It sounds like they might have hung up, probably a firmware bug IMO. If they start working again you can use the Offline status to monitor in future.

I have had a few Tuya Zigbee USB repeaters that have died on me. Eventually I replaced them with the IKEA power monitoring plugs for about $12 each and everything has been fine since then.

For what it is worth I am the author of the Zigbee Monitor driver.

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Ugg, if these are the USB A Tuya repeaters, I've had mixed results and they all take turns falling off. I use the Zigbee repeater driver by KKossev, with health status, which let's you know real time if it's working.
What's the Tuya ID? like "_TZ3000_m0vaazab" and as I type this another just fell off. I'm slowly replacing all these with with the USB C type I just posted about.

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Yeah, they are the USB-A LoraTap Tuya Zigbee Repeaters. I’ve never had issues before to be honest. This is the first time they fell off for me. But, they all fell off on the same day. Like ALL of them lol. I really should monitor the health status and set up notifications like suggested so I can fix them quicker. It’s just weird that they all fell on the same day.

I think you might be right on an update bug because what are the chances they all fall off on the same day? Like every single one? Thanks for the tip on notification rules for the health status. I’ll set those up now. I’ve never had issues before honestly until that day.

Oh I meant to ask. Do you use your driver for your zigbee plugs?

Yes I do. You can use it for simple on\off plugs but it does not support Power Monitoring.

This setting controls the behaviour.

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