With these zigbee2mqtt tip and tricks zigbee2mqtt you will get the most out of it
- Get a good antenna to increase your range
- Make sure you have a good stick.
The CC2531 stick only support 20 devices. Use a zig-a-zig-ah! or Slaesh’s CC2652RB stick.
- Use coordinators
The Ikea Ikea tradfri ones are very good coordinators. You can even update those via Zigbee2mqtt.
- Update your devices.
You can update ikea devices trough zigbee2mqtt. But for other devices you need to update them via the orginal hub of that device
- Enable the webinterface
When you enable this you get a good map overview over your devices. You can enable this in the configuration.yaml change this:
frontend:
port: 8080
host: 0.0.0.0 - Update Zigbee2mqtt
The Zigbee2mqtt community is very active. Make sure you update once a month. Update Zigbee2mqtt