I live in a house where first and second floors are occupied by my neighboor. I have the 3-4-5th floors to myself with Homey Pro positioned on the 4th (right in the middle) I also have a mancave on -1 Therefore there are 3 floors in between. I have purchased 2 Aeotec Zi Range Extenders (they are zigbee extenders)placing one on the 3rd floor the other on 1st floor. I still have no coverage in -1 What do you think I should do? Thank you.
The distance is still too big.
Unaware of your relationship with your neighbours: You could consider asking your neighbour kindly if you can plug in (a) range extender(s) into their 1st or/and second floor, and think of a compensation of some kind for the (little) energy those devices draw from their grid.
Say the range extenders use 1Watt continuously , in a year they’ll use:
1 day = 24Wh
100 days = 2.4kWh
1 year = 8.76kWh
Perhaps asking your question in multiple topics is not the best way to go.
I answered your question with some other options here:
Firstly thanks for taking the time to answer one of my my questions. Secondly however; there are two questions here; (wanna make sure this is clear!) You implied that “more routers are needed to establish a solid Zigbee Coverage” So, question 1: is this the only way? which was a reply to an already existing post. Question number 2 on the other hand is: I have a “so and so problem” within my specific setup, how can I overcome this issue. Which I had to create from scratch as I couldn’t find a satisfying answer to my conundrum suite to my research within the community. Now I’ve been a member of many Q/A forums long enough to follow an adequate etiquette therefore, I don’t need a lecture, nor a sarcastic or ill placed comment about how to behave within a Q/A community.
I think I’ll prepay the yearly electricity cost and install one (or maybe two more) extenders by my neighboor to tackle the issue. Thanks for your reply.
Please, Henk is always a friendly and helpful guy. He gave you some good advice.
I don’t get your emotional response.
Which is exactly why I thanked him FIRST for his reply and expressed my discontent for the uncalled for “advice” regarding the community etiquette later. That’s all. As far as I am concerned this topic is now closed. I’ll proceed to try out your recommendation. Thanks.
Thanks @Peter_Kawa.
If my suggestion was already too much for you, I perhaps better not reply to you at all anymore, @Kivanc_Cubukcu.
Good luck with your setup.
Not sure whether you saw @Henk_Renting‘s additional post with suggested alternatives (instead of adding extra router devices).
Yes I have. Thanks bud
