Tuya Zigbee Repeater issues

[Ian_Frank]

Hi!

I bought 3 Tuya Repeaters, as recommended in this post

Zigbee Mini Repeaters (Tuya) - Shout Out

I thought I'd give a shout out to these little Zigbee repeaters. I added 4 of these to my network about a year ago and they have been a great addition and made my mesh very stable. [image] Very inconspicuous, so much so they are easy to forget where you put them! They are about $15 on Amazon Amazon Link But if you are willing to wait you can get them on AliExpress (link) for about $5.

They paired without issues as 'Device', and I then switched driver to 'Generic Zigbee Repeater (with Presence).

But I see a lot of errors in the logs, and little to none devices connect to the, according to my charter.

This is the error and device info:

The errors also appear if i select 'Device' or 'Ikea Tradfri Repeater'

Any help would be appreciated.

[Ranchitat]

Have you tried this community driver (with a "Wipe"):

[RELEASE] Zigbee Monitor Driver - Like XRAY Vision for Zigbee Repeaters and simple Switches

Intro I bought 4 dedicated USB mini Zigbee repeaters a few months ago to bolster my network. I’m the author of Tile Builder and it irked me that such a critical component of the network offered almost nothing in terms of insights. What I wanted to know was: To which repeater were my battery devices connected. (Parent -> Child) How strong were the connections between devices on my network. What did the Zigbee routing table look like. Is the repeater online and operational. There are several t…

[rocketwiz]

Did you initialize the device?

[Ian_Frank]

I did not know that driver, i will test it and report back.

[Ian_Frank]

I removed power 3 times to pair it, if that is what you mean?

[rocketwiz]

There's a button at the top of the device page labelled "initialize" which needs to be pressed when it is created with a new driver. This applies to most devices when first created.

[Ian_Frank]

@rocketwiz

There's a button at the top of the device page labelled "initialize" which needs to be pressed when it is created with a new driver. This applies to most devices when first created.

Thanks, i was not aware of that.

[kahn-hubitat]

ive had 2 of 4 of these drop off the mesh and require power down reboot.. cannot recommend them.. especially when in a remote hub.

[TomG]

I have one in each room.

No driver is needed. ‘Device’ is fine.

[rocketwiz]

Markus's driver has presence which is handy to see if it's dropped off (However I don't recall any issues with them over the last few years).

[Rxich]

It appears you have switched drivers and old schedules from the prior driver exist. Change to "Device" driver and delete all states and schedules .
Then load this driver:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kkossev/hubitat-Markus-Li-fork/release/drivers/expanded/zigbee-generic-repeater-expanded.groovy

[Ian_Frank]

After i switched to the Zigbee Monitor Driver, did a wipe then an initialize, it looks like the error in the logs has disappeared. I actually think the initialize would have fixed it, regardless of the driver.

It also looks like the devices acts as repeaters to some other devices according to the list on the device page, even though i can't see those devices linked to the repeaters on the zigbee chart. I'm guessing it's because the chart is in beta.

Anyway, thank you everyone for your input and suggestions