Zigbee Repeater

[montyonthebonty]

Good afternoon

I've recently upgraded to the latest hub and I seem to be having a couple of issues with the rules.

A couple of my blinds don't always work - they are quite far from the hub, but I thought most zigbee devices were supposed to act as repeaters, so I'm not sure why these aren't doing it correctly. Is there a repeater I can get if not? The house is full of mains-powered zigbee devices - smart switches and that kind of thing...

Thanks
Chris

[dstutz]

Does the device respond well if you use the commands from the device page?

[marktheknife]

@montyonthebonty

A couple of my blinds don't always work

To piggyback off of what @dstutz asked, how are they supposed to be working?

Do you have automations configured that automatically adjust the blinds? Do you manually control the blinds from a Hubitat dashboard? Alexa, Siri or another voice assistant?

@montyonthebonty

The house is full of mains-powered zigbee devices - smart switches and that kind of thing...

In general this is true, so you probably don’t have a lack of repeaters as the underlying cause of the issue you’re experiencing. But what devices are they?

[montyonthebonty]

They are mostly the Benexmart zigbee blind engines (although I've seen the same thing sold as Tuya too).

I have them set to run as part of rules, but †hey don't always seem to respond to the app either.

Thanks
Chris

[dstutz]

@montyonthebonty

but †hey don't always seem to respond to the app either.

I think you should get them responding to commands from the hub reliably before worrying about automations. The latter will probably start working OK once communications are reliable. I'm not a master zigbee mesh network guy....but the above seems to make sense.

[marktheknife]

@marktheknife

But what devices are they?

I probably should’ve been clearer but was also asking about the wired zigbee devices you’re using as repeaters.