Mastodawn

I just bought 5 zigbee water leak detectors (Aqara). One I put in one end of the house, where all the waterworks is done. All the way in the other end I have my zigbee coordinator. But that's not a problem, because somewhere near the middle of my house I have two lamps that work as routers.

The problem is, that this particular detector insists on being connected to the zigbee coordinator, that is altogether too far away - which of course means that it drops off the zigbee network. Now, I have five of them, so I just took one from a bathroom close to the coordinator, which had connected to a router in the middle of the house, and swapped them, but... What do you do if you don't have that option? The network is unbalanced and rather than find a better graph it just drops devices.

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gewin Nov 7

@Gjoel I have 2 of the aqara water leak detectors on my z2m network one connects via a aqara power plug (router) the other via a zigbee siren. So it looks like they connect OK via routers. I do notice with zigbee devices there seems to be a preference for the type of router used for connection. Globes on my network rarely get used as routers. Also try to pair them when they are in the final location rather than near the coordinator and make sure the battery is new.

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Mark Gjøl Nov 7

@gewin The ones I swapped were identical detectors, only the one close to the coordinator had hopped on the router. Swapping them made sense, I'm just sad that I had to do it physically. I could not add the far one to the Zigbee network if I just had it at the far end of the house. I suspect perhaps the two routers caps out at four devices each (which seems low).

Regarding the battery - yeah, the far one came with a half charge battery, not sure if that plays a role.

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crazifyngers

@Gjoel
Often those aqara devices pin themselves to the device they joined to. If that is the coordinator it pins to the coordinator. It it is a router it pins to that router. It's frustrating but it's a limitation of aqara devices not ZigBee.
@gewin