Hello HE friends, I was looking the zigbee chart for the first time today, I read that is not perfect but works. I have 2 C4 hubs with zigbee devices, but one have aqara door sensors plus some ikea repeaters, one door sensor is dropping the network and I ignore it but looking the chart I notice th…

[image] danabw: If you have multiple hubs you may have to try joining the troublesome device to your other hub and see if it plays nicer on that one. There isn't wany way to force devices to use repeaters, you could try joining it far from the hub w/repeaters in between it and the hub. I thin…

It's a well-intentioned tool and it would be really great if it worked as hoped, but unfortunately, it doesn't... It's a very long and complicated story as to why that it (numerous threads about it here on the community), but the bottom-line is that it's simply best to ignore these charts as a trou…

In my other hub looks like the chart it's fine, is more like how I can make the repeaters actually repeat?, the door contact I have dropping the network is because of this problem, it has a repeater right there and not using it.

If you have multiple hubs you may have to try joining the troublesome device to your other hub and see if it plays nicer on that one. There isn't wany way to force devices to use repeaters, you could try joining it far from the hub w/repeaters in between it and the hub. The Zigbee chart as has been…

Unless you have newer Aqara devices that are Zigbee certified, they are non-standard devices. They tend to be very fussy about repeating devices. The Ikea repeaters should work, although I have heard some negative reports on their capabilities. Do you have any other line powered Zigbee devices such…

I purchased a c7 like a year ago, still waiting to get some time to install it. I have two c4 with 2 zigbee networks, one is to separate those older aqara devices from the other non aqara devices, both hubs are working fine, just asking if I could fix those aqara to use the repeaters, or if the repe…

[image] vjv: I don't want to talk about the c8 and matter exclusive which I think is somehow unfair to c7 users, but been with HE since the early time I understand they need to make money to survive. At the risk of derailing this topic (but you brought it up :slightly_smiling_face:), from the…

If you're OK trying some new repeaters that seem to play well with Aqara you could try: the tiny Tuya USB repeaters (easy to hide) [image] The SonOff USB Dongle P repeaters [(have to be flashed)] ( How to: Flash SonOff USB Dongle to be a Zigbee Repeater/Router & Set Transmit Power ) [image] …

Thanks, so should I remove the ikeas?

Those could work well...I'm not really familiar w/them but the general "rep" I have on them is good, IIRC. :slight_smile: How's that for vague... :wink: AFAIK there is no way to force a connection in Zigbee, the devices choose based on reported signal strength of available repeaters, and I don't th…

I found the thread where we tested the xbee, and true, the HE chart is really bad... I found with the xbee chart that those repeaters are working, they have some devices connected to them and also they are connected between them. I marked this as solved, I'll try to re pair the problem sensor goin…

Zigbee chart question/aqara devices/repeater problem

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kkossev December 27, 2023, 3:05pm 23

I can confirm Tony's experience for the old generation of Xiaomi/Aqara battery-powered sensors - they work most reliably when paired extremely close to a friendly router/repeater: