Xiaomi & Aqara Devices - Pairing & Keeping them connected

That error message is completely unrelated to the device being connected to a repeater and/or data corruption. It's just caused by an unimportant type of message received that my driver wasn't coded to ignore. Given the fact that the driver code executes in a new instance for every single message received, no important data is lost and there's nothing really to worry about.

I will one of these days (when things are "calmed" down at home - ha!) get around to including code that gets rid of that error which evidently causes way more user stress and consternation than any actual loss of functionality. :rofl:

However, if you have Philips Hue bulbs directly connected to your Hubitat's ZigBee network, then yes, you can expect potential issues with Xiaomi / Aqara devices that land up routing via those Hue bulbs.

Keep in mind, though, that according to some reports Hue bulbs seem to cause issues for more than just Xiaomi / Aqara devices, too:

However, Hubitat staff have said that Hue bulbs will act as repeaters just fine for fully Zigbee HA-compliant devices (which doesn't include Xiaomi / Aqara). See this thread, starting at this post:

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