Hi, I have been using deconz with a conbee 2 stick for a year now and it has been running absolutely great. About 2 weeks ago the problems started. My network is unstable, lights do not respond, or even flicker. Even if I briefly disconnect the power I have problems. The flickering even starts by itself, without any user interaction. Lamps also just turn off.
I have already tried the following:
use a USB2 port
use a USB2 extension
change the Zigbee channel (from 11 to 15)
restart the server
disconnect the conbee stick for a few minutes
keep in mind that the whole thing ran flawless for a year, really 0.0 problems
I have already written in discord but there I was referred to this forum.
Also I was advised of possible interference with my wifi, I have in the house 3 wifi access points which occupy channel 1, 6 and 11. However, this ran for months without problems. I have no neighbors, and no foreign wifi or zigbee.
Slowly I run out of ideas, I use about 40 devices, mostly philips hue and aqara sensors, but I also have signal amplifiers from ikea (from the smart blinds).
I also use the ikea smart gateway because the blinds unfortunately do not work so well with deconz, but that also ran at least 3 months without errors.
I had the same problem, I started a year ago using Hue (bluetooth gen), The HUE bulb start flickering generaly after a power outage, they break the mesh network. I do an upgrade (using Hue bridge) of the all bulb and problem disappear.
Could you post your bulb firmware version to check.
Hi, thanks a lot for your answer.
The problematic lights are mostly hue white e27 lights.
Vendor: Philips
Model: LWA001
Version 1.53.3_r27175
But a Hue Play was also flickering/not responding:
Vendor: Philips
Model: 440400982841
Version: 1.56.7_r29434
shouldnt deconz update the firmware automatically?
edit: i also have lots of bluetooth hue devices.
edit2: i updated all of my 18 (17) hue lights using bluetooth. one wouldnt update, dont matter how hard or often i tried, i disconnected it from power. The playbars doesnt have bluetooth i think, so i couldnt update them
Thanks, i already updated everything and so far its working fine.
Thankfully i got the “new” hue lights which also got bluetooth, so i dont need a bridge to update.
the latest hue white e27 version is 1.90.1
So, its been a few days since i updated the bulbs and that fixed my problems.
If anybody is searching for a solution: update your bulbs using hue bridge, or if you got bluetooth+zigbee hues, just use the hue bluetooth app.
works perfectly.