Zigbee repeater (europe)?

[brumster (Paul)]

I’ve just realised I never had a response. I’ve sent another email.

[brumster (Paul)]

Some good and bad news.

Here’s the good news:

The not so good news:

Hub Firmware Release Notes - OTA - 16.9 - V2

FYI. I’ve got two Orvibo Zigbee Relays (RL804QZB) in my setup. To date they have been rock solid. Following recent FW updates they both dropped of the network requiring a “30 min reboot”. Once done all appears to have returned to normal. I’m seeing some strange results with one of these relays that I had setup as a momentary switch (to control a garage door). The on/off sent from ST now takes much longer than it used to (regardless of the code that I use) which makes it useless for my use case (I need a relatively short momentary press). This may or may not relate to the most recent f/w update as I use the device very infrequently.

All of that said if you want a relatively inexpensive repeater this certainly looks like an option.

[RInkelk (Rinke)]

Hmm, still looking further for a good zigbee repeater. I need a few for covering my house.
So far i haven’t found any, other than the ST ones from the UK, which are not in stock via Amazon (which can ship to the NL)

I am currently using an Osram EU plug as zigbee repeater, but is VERY unreliable, the plug itself is fantastic, but relaying the sensor messages is horrible. Still in doubt to buy an Osram Hub to update the firmware. But this still might not fix it in the end…
What to do…
Maybe i should forget about the whole zigbee platform and go for zwave (replacing the el-cheapo Orvibo sensors), which is much more common here in EU.

[SLKDK]

Confirmed! The Orvibo RGB relay works extending my Zigbee mesh - I have now no problems with Zigbee devices (farest away from ST hub) loosing their signal.