My Zigbee network became really unreliable and devices kept disconnecting from the network, making my smart home very un-smart. This is the story of the trou...
Interesting to see that I have pretty much the same (apparently wonky) setup with my ZigBee coordinator plugged into my Home Assistant mini-PC (via extension cable) in the basement of my house.
Though I have a better supported adapter (from Slaesh) it is definitely not in the middle of the house. It works fine so far with about 100 devices and it seems the backbone is strong enough so the basement location is not a big problem. Still I wonder if the mesh could be improved by getting a network-enabled adapter and placing it somewhere more central.
If you are using a supported NON experimental adaptor / chipset and you have powered devices with strong connections to it, you should be fine. The only optimization I would do is put your USB stick on an extension cable and get it a little ways away from the computer as when they are jacked directly into a pi/computer the USB port can actually cause a little interference.
I just switched to the SLZB-06. I placed it in the middle of all Zigbee devices to a power connector and it is working over Wifi. Coming from an odd TI CC2531 that was crashing every 24 hours, doing software updates, change to the Sky Connect, that was not working with 5 of my 6 Tuya Plugs, reusing the CC2531 for them an booting the HA Pi every 24 hours.
Now everything works fine with the SLZB-06. The setup was fast and flawless, the Zigbee devices forming a better network and the Philips bluetooth bulbs not described as zigbee devices are working over zigbee with it.
Interesting to see that I have pretty much the same (apparently wonky) setup with my ZigBee coordinator plugged into my Home Assistant mini-PC (via extension cable) in the basement of my house.
Though I have a better supported adapter (from Slaesh) it is definitely not in the middle of the house. It works fine so far with about 100 devices and it seems the backbone is strong enough so the basement location is not a big problem. Still I wonder if the mesh could be improved by getting a network-enabled adapter and placing it somewhere more central.
If you are using a supported NON experimental adaptor / chipset and you have powered devices with strong connections to it, you should be fine. The only optimization I would do is put your USB stick on an extension cable and get it a little ways away from the computer as when they are jacked directly into a pi/computer the USB port can actually cause a little interference.
I just switched to the SLZB-06. I placed it in the middle of all Zigbee devices to a power connector and it is working over Wifi. Coming from an odd TI CC2531 that was crashing every 24 hours, doing software updates, change to the Sky Connect, that was not working with 5 of my 6 Tuya Plugs, reusing the CC2531 for them an booting the HA Pi every 24 hours.
Now everything works fine with the SLZB-06. The setup was fast and flawless, the Zigbee devices forming a better network and the Philips bluetooth bulbs not described as zigbee devices are working over zigbee with it.