ZigBee Advanced Settings

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I have a strange issue happening with ZigBee and a VeraPlus. I have 4 centralite Model 3100 ZigBee lamp modules and set them up and they were working great. They are all located in the same room one room away from the Vera. Occasionally one of the units will lose contact with Vera. I swapped and the same location in that room still loses communication with Vera. I noticed that if I reboot my router that device is reachable again for a perod of time

The router is a Orbi router using channel 6 for 2.4 GHz and I am thinking somehow there is Wifi intefernece. Is there somewhere I can find doucmentatin for the Advanced ZigBee page that relates to the frequenices that ZigBee will use? I am still trying to map out Wifi Frequecies to Zigbee and this is all I found so far on ZigBee:

 This standard specifies operation in the unlicensed 2.4 to 2.4835 [28]GHz (worldwide))

And for Wifi these are the 2.4 GHz channels using 2.412 to 2.462

It looks like if I can force Zigbee on the Vera at the higher side of the 2.4 GHz band there would be no conflict with Wifi.

Thanks…

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For reference

Also the centralite lamp modules are fairly powerful repeaters fro Zigbee (I use a few of them as such) so you may just want to add more of them in the room since zigbee is also a mesh network. For me, only two of these units allow me to blanket the whole house. I am on channel 24 with the rest of the wifi bands fairly clogged.

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Thanks rafale77, I will probably set the channel for ZigBee in the range of channel 11 of Wifi. One more thing is that the only value you need to provide on the advanced ZigBee page or do you have to fill out the other fields?

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On mine, I only filled the channel number, leaving the others blank.

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Thanks…I will give it a shot this weekend.