Is your hub central in the house? Are you running a c7 or c8? (sorry if I missed that somewhere). If it is inconvenient to move the hub just throw some repeaters nearby (I like the sengled outlets (oval not square).
I’m thinking of moving my 1 Tuya mmwave sensor back to my Tuya hub and bringing it back to HE via Home Assistant. On a slow day, my 1 mmwave sensor produces around 18,000 events (750/hour). I can’t imagine having a bunch of them on the hub. I’m also thinking that this is why the FP2 sensor is WiFi.
FYI: Your not seeing all of the Zigbee traffic produced by this device because the continuous distance reports are hidden by the driver if I’m remembering correctly. @kkossev will correct me if I’m wrong .
Yesterday, I updated my hub. I also moved it to the first floor, So, it was middle (attic to basement) middle (front to back) but now rightish in the house (previously leftish).
I woke up this morning and the outcost of the repeaters looked about the same, mostly 5-7 with a couple of zeros.
This morning I moved it out of that room where it was near the door and down the hall and look at this!
The higher out costs are further away from the hub.
I'm not sure is this location change has or will change the zigbee up time, but I imagine that a healthier mesh is generally a good thing.
Note: in both previous locations, the hub was in the same room as my netgear nighthawk. First location within a few feet. Second location across the room (about 8 feet). Now in a hall with no router. I'm wondering if there was some interference even though it was wifi channel 1.
I have been moving the hub around to find the best placement. Like most people, I don't have Ethernet in every room of my house. I have it in the office (where the router is). I have it in other rooms using a MoCA network (ethernet over coaxial cable) and in the rooms where my Netgear NightHawk satellites are located.
I found an ok place for the hub, but I needed to get the ethernet there. I moved my Netgear NightHawk nearby to supply the ethernet for the hub and...
Last night the hub went down. I don't know the exact distance that it is "safe", but i am fairly certain that proximity to the Netgear router or satellite caused by zigbee to go down. I wonder if others with the same issue have this particular router or if the issue is caused by any WiFi router.
The question for our Hubitat overlords is why? I have my Smartthings an Hue Hubs in the same shelf as my router. Why don't they shut off their zigbee transceiver? It is one thing to have interference and poor communications, but the radio should nit be shutting down.
Huh, you may be on to something with this... I've always had my HE, Hue, and router all in a pretty straight line near each other... HE < ~2' > router < ~2' > Hue
This was never a problem with my C7, but one of the big things that finally helped with my C8's zigbee issues was changing to ch 25 (lower power) and radio power 4.
Perhaps having a router and/or Hue bridge nearby (even with good channel deconfliction) somehow otherwise messes with the C8's zigbee?
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