make the Zigbee device's go into "panic mode."
once rebooted they tend to find stuff faster ..
Forces your Zigbee devices to look for the hub again. Otherwise you may be waiting a long time for the Zigbee devices to finally reconnect.
In my case all 12 third reality plugs changed channels as soon as it updated.
The firmware doesn't update though when I click update device firmware button on said device.
1233-D3A6-10013048 is where they stay
What do the logs say?
When I click firmware update, then logs, past logs. It says,
Firmware for Garage Ceiling, Third Reality, Inc 1233-D3A6-10013058 is up to date.
Does your Hubitat have internet access? It probably has to pull the firmware update from somewhere on the internet.
Yes there is internet connected, and verified as cloud service is working.
Any third reality plug I click update firmware on just stays a same version ending in 3048.
Tried on multiple plugs, no update happens.
After clicking okay to update warning dialog closes and nothing happens in logs...
On another note, changing to channel 25 is somewhat better, but still lagging compared to Z-wave devices which are instantaneous to react.
And you have a window open w/the Live Logs tab before you hit the Update FW button on the Device page?
You should see something...
Yes log is open before trying, Nothing happens except other devices power stats.
Nothing to log from the device that the Update Firmware button was pushed on
Same results from any Zigbee device I try to update (12 plugs and one motion, all third reality)
Must be a distance from hub issue?
Got one to update that's 15 feet from hub
So obviously my mesh must suck....LoL
Yup - if one updates, then the ones that don't may not be connecting solidly w/the hub. But the mains powered Zigbee devices should help to build a mesh and allow devices that are farther away to communicate w/the hub.
You could try initiating the Zigbee panic mode by turning off your hub, pull power, and wait 15-20m and then plug in hub again. Zigbee devices should build new neighbor tables and find the best routes back to the hub.
Before tyring that you could try using the Rebuild Network and then Reboot Radio buttons on the Zigbee Details page.
Unless all of the plugs are too far away from the hub the more remote plugs should be able to find paths back to the hub through the plugs that are closer. If you don't have any that are closer like the one you updated, you may need more plugs as repeaters near the hub (buy more, or move some of existing closer).
Seems the firmware was the issue, with the updated firmware the mesh works good.
Only one plug needed brought to hub to update, the others updated once their neighbor had been updated.
Tomorrow morning will be the real test, previously Zigbee performace was bad in the morning everyday...
This morning Zigbee is working without a Rebuild Network or Zigbee radio reboot....
Must of been the xxx1048 firmware as now the devices actually mesh in Zigbee graph, before the hub was only direct connecting to each plug.
xxx1058 firmware was the fix