Anyone used an Arduino and Xbee Pro board to extended Zigbee Mesh Range?

[veeceeoh (Keith G)]

Zigbee - from flakey to stable

I have been suffering from losing devices on an off, general instability… having only about 3 days of uptime before something stopped working. It annoyed me not knowing why… so i started to keep track of variables that were triggering it. The only thing i could pinpoint was if lots of people were in the house (with mobile phones), then bad stuff would happen. So, lets get more scientific. I bought an £11 xbee (actually £11 for 2)) a £3 usb converter and booted up XCTU, sketched together some settings from lots of other posts on xbee and connected it as a thing. I can now see my zigbee mesh… i can start to play. first thing i saw is lots of mobile devices = lots of intereference. What i saw was a marginal mesh at best, very weak signal between the hub, and the outlet, and pathetic signa…