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  • I only disagree with one thing said by this author, and that’s the idea to use client. Your nodes in your pocket or on your backpack make really terrible clients because they are not very high off the ground and therefore cannot retransmit a signal received very far.

    My general suggestion is go by height. If your node is 100 feet above the ground or higher, you might want to consider using router. If it’s between 100 feet above the ground and 20 feet above the ground, you might want to use client or client base. And if it’s less than 20 feet above the ground or in a moving vehicle of any kind, then client mute should be used.


  • Zigbee has an analyzer where you can see how the connections are being made and you can actually remove the sensor from your network and then force it to reconnect to the network using a specific repeater. I’ve noticed by default that everything seems to want to connect to my ZBT1, but if I want to connect something specifically through my smart plug repeater, I have to open the home assistant app and then tap on the plug and then tap add via this device in a three dot menu…



  • I’m sticking with meshtastic because of two different things at the moment. Firstly, meshtastic is the only thing that’s actually available in my area. Nobody else uses meshcore here currently. And second of all, I’m having that problem with my node, getting disconnected from the device after a couple of days, and having to factory reset it in order to get it back. And I don’t know what’s going on with that. Which prevents me from using meshcore even if I wanted to.