Home Assistant SkyConnect

… to. I’ve actually found it more reliable than my Hubitat C5 which was already miles ahead of the Samsung Smartthings hub. Best part is, it’s made by the home assistant team so you know they will focus on it first and foremost

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… following all of the "rules". Getting cyclical Zigbee coordinator disconnections. My coordinator is LAN-based, so it's not USB3 interference. I had a SkyConnect, which was largely stable, but a little sluggish. Every couple of weeks the network would go down, and I had to reseat the dongle for everything to come back online. I reached out to the SC devs and asked about device limits, to which they responded the SC had no device limit but you could expect a slowdown after ~50 devices without routers. My network is 56 devices with 37 routers and 19 edge. Regardless, I thought getting a stronger …

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I'm simply waiting for the ability to synchronize a non-Apple Thread network credential to an iOS device. I have a SkyConnect, and I'm eyeing up a GL-iNet S20 as a second Thread Border Router in a different section of my home. I can't commission any Thread devices yet as HAOS doesn't have the ability to synchronize the Thread credentials from the OTBR add-on / Thread integration. Patiently. Waiting.

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… off appear to be primarily Aqara motion and door/window sensors. I've got a total of 37 Aqara devices. I'm running HAOS on a VM in Unraid. I'm using a Skyconnect on Channel 11. My 2.4 Ghz wifi is running on channels 6 and 11. Did I max out my Skyconnect? Any suggestions for steps to fix this? I do have a Sonoff ZBDongle-E that I could swap for the Skyconnect.

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HA Zigbee dongle has been solid for me buuuut I’m still kinda upset they rug pulled the dual Zigbee/Thread support. That was the main reason I bought it. As of right now it still works but I expect eventually I’ll need to update and break it. If I were buying again I might consider an Ethernet based adapter, so you don’t need a free USB port on the HA server. Also gives you flexibility on placement.

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