Do _not_ get the Aqara ones. The things will not stay connected for shit.

I have a couple of the Tuya ones and I'm pleased with them. The humidity accuracy is questionable, but it's fine.

I also have an airgradient (not zigbee, uses wifi) for high accuracy the one place I care about that. Works great in Home Assistant with esphome.

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nijave 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hmm interesting I have 4-5 of them and quite like them. They've all stayed connected over a year except 1 which I just replaced the battery in and I think that fixed it. It was reporting 40% battery but would drop off shortly after connecting.

Aqara might be the ones with a crappy ZigBee implementation that doesn't roam right so if you move them or your topology changes, they'll drop off.

	▲	kadoban a minute ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Very interesting. I wonder if there's some compatability thing or network topology/density/something that screws them up. Half of people seem to swear by them, and half hate them. They did seem great until I kept having to reconnect them every couple days, so I get why the lucky ones are happy.
	▲	jaggederest 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Same, I have scads of them (~8) and have never had connection issues with any of them. I made sure to only pull the battery tab and turn them on for the first time in their target location, maybe that makes a difference, and my zigbee network is quite dense, so there's no lack of mesh for them to connect to. I'm 2 years in, I think, and I have never noticed any issues.

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akifbayram 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Agreed. After the headache of getting them paired and dealing with repeated disconnections, I tried out a few bluetooth sensors and was pleasantly surprised. Specifically Govee H5074 and similar. No pairing troubles. They just work. Battery life is definitely over a year, possibly 2. A pack of three can be had for <$40.

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ddeck 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have to agree. Aqara make some excellent hardware, but their Zigbee firmware is typically awful. Their battery-powered switches also drop off the network at random.

I have several E1 wired switches and had to resort to replacing the firmware on them[0]. They don't drop off the network as their sleepy end devices tend to, but they also can't be bound to other devices.

[0] https://www.ducktoast.com/blog/electronics-projects/aqara-e1...

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cmckn 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Do _not_ get the Aqara ones. The things will not stay connected for shit.

+1, complete waste of time and money. I thought my Zigbee network or HA was the problem, but the sensors are just garbage.

	▲	parineum 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's a known issue with them that they don't ever change their routing. If you connect them in a different place than you use them, you're going to have suboptimal to unusable routes.