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How To Build a Stable and Robust Zigbee Network (smarthomescene.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My biggest gripe is that you can't tell a device not to be a router. I have some devices that just aren't very reliable, but advertise themselves as router in the network and I'd much rather be able to ban them from doing that :/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm saving this for reference as Zigbee has stopped working for me and I haven't had time to troubleshoot it (probably just order a longer dongle extension for starters).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We all want a longer dongle extension, brother.

Do you have any Hue bulbs paired into your zigbee network? Mine work really well as additional routers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

We all want a longer dongle extension, brother.

I'm blaming the cold weather.

Do you have any Hue bulbs paired into your zigbee network?

I'm all in in IKEA bulbs.