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Zigbee Went Down With My WiFi? (lemmy.tf)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The other day my WiFi network went down and with it, I lost access to my Zigbee network?* Is this normal or is this a sign of a massive issue?

*When I checked the Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant, all devices showed as unavailable.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There was a fault in the neighbourhood and Virgin make it so when their routers lose connection to the web, they kill all connections. It's annoying!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Like, if a neighbor's Internet loses connection, yours goes down?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So if my internet goes down because there's an area fault, I can't, for example, scream movies from my NAS, because the router just refuses all connections. It's infuriating. Especially as the local Internet drops constantly due Virgin selling over capacity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is it worth it to double-NAT, and run a router between your internal network and their internet box? Then your router is doing the internal routing and possibly DNS too. It’s not perfect, but it might be worth it if the internet drops that much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

This is my plan. I'm gonna get a NanoPi to do the routing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How does your home assistant get zigbee ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

SonOff Coordinator

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Directly plugged into a raspberry pi I suppose ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Via an extension cable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is the pi running home assistant or is it an external pi running Z2M independently? Is it connected to your network via WiFi?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The Pi is running HA, Mosquitto and Z2M

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean by extension cable ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

How did you setup your home assistant ? Check if you somehow the container traffic doesn't route through your ISP box for some reason :p