# \[HOW TO\] Plan and setup your Zigbee network

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**Category:** Tutorials\
**Tags:** zigbee, tutorial, homey-pro, homey-bridge, howto\
**Created:** [November 15, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-plan-and-setup-your-zigbee-network/94770 "2023-11-15T22:30:37Z")\
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When you happen to have Ikea zigbee lights added to the mesh as well:  
Aqara sensors + Ikea lights _ **+ Homey** _ is not a good combo. Using Ikea smartplugs wasn’t a problem though.  
As soon as the sensors start to use the Ikea lights’ zigbee routers, they stop sending updates, and worse, they stop searching for alternative routers.  
On other platforms, like zigbee2mqtt, this issue is non-existent on my system.

For now, you’d replace the Ikea lights or the Aqara sensors.

> [@Ikea Door Sensor - automatically controls nearest device](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-door-sensor-automatically-controls-nearest-device/129572/7):
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> Just a heads-up: I’ve reached out to both the IKEA and Aqara teams to get more insight into where this issue might be coming from. Aqara devices are known to not always play nicely with Zigbee routers from certain other manufacturers (as listed [here](https://community.hubitat.com/t/xiaomi-aqara-devices-pairing-keeping-them-connected/623)), and the problem with IKEA devices affecting Aqara devices is also a known issue on the Zigbee2MQTT platform (as seen [here](https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/discussions/17244)). Unfortunately, this isn’t something we can easily fix on our end. I’ll update here as soon as I get more information from I…

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