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IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee) (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm in literally the middle of nowhere, the next nearest house is 4 miles away and I'm not even connected to the grid. If there's a wifi signal detectable, it'll be mine. So I've shifted frequencies around trying to get it to stabilize, with little luck. I've primarily been using Sonoff, Aqara, Ikea and SMLight, and hubs from each of them.

Honestly, I've been migrating to zwave since I don't seem to have issue with anything I use on that protocol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Aqara (specially older devices) are known for being temperamental and not playing well with other hubs/devices. If you have each manufacturer on its own hub, make sure they are using separate channels. If everything else fails, 2.4GHz is also used for Bluetooth, microwaves and other, maybe your location has noise on that band,

Z-Wave is using lower bands (800-900mhz depending on location) and certifying the devices better for software compatibility. It's a fine solution as if it works for you, any limitations are basically theoretical (like the 200 devices).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'm using zigbee2mqtt, I've noticed that leaving things alone for a while helps with network stability.

I don't use third party hubs, everything is connected to the z2m coordinator.

I've ditched pretty much all Aqara devices as they have problems getting their messages relayed, the best alternative was creating a separate network just for them, I did that for a while but then I decided to just replace them.