Smartthings Power Outlet, do they act as repeaters?

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@hostman

If my understanding is correct (I’m relatively techy but new to this automation world …), is that powered devices, i.e. power outlets, will act as signal repeaters, but not battery devices i.e. motion sensors?

That would be a correct statement.

And here is a little something for when you do introduce these into your ST environment:

@JDRoberts

Back to this thread: anytime you physically move a device to a new position or add a new device to the network you need to rebuild the neighbor tables for each device or they won’t know who their true neighbors are (and won’t use the new repeater even if it’s right next to them).

For zigbee devices, you force a network heal by taking The hub off power (including taking out batteries if it has them) for at least 15 minutes. When it comes back onto power, all the other devices will begin rebuilding their neighbor tables. This can take a few hours, so you may not see the results until the next day.