It make some time I’m looking for answers by myself, reading this forum (and others).
I came to homey as a former fibaro user, and i’m really happy to have done so.
Now the point is : I need to cover a basement at my home, but as I live in a flat, i have other appartments between my home (with the controller - homey pro) and the basement. So just a repeater/amplifier will not be enough (3 floors of separation).
I actually have a netatmo welcome with some sensors, but was wondering if I can’t have some other controller connected on my homey via IP for example, and control all via homey directly instead of using multiple apps.
I will verry soon buy another homey pro for an holiday house, but that’s another story.
I suppose that depends on what networks your using.
Philips Hue Zigbee will create a very reliable network and Homey can connect to Hue bridge. I have more than 70 lights and they have created a network that covers inside and outside a 2 story brick house.
As Homey connects to your home network and you can use range extenders and extra cabled AP then you still shouldn’t have a problem there. Some manufacturers don’t make it easy though. I have Tado which are excellent but they all have to connect directly to the Tado bridge and then Homey connects to Tado cloud (at least I think that’s how it works). All my devices connect but only just and there is currently no range extender. I don’t know about netatmo
I also thought about a set of wall plug LAN & wifi extenders.
One in your home and the other in your basement (if you access to mains power there). Then you could connect a f.i. Hue bridge and create a Homey reachable zigbee network downstairs.
Not having used wall plug LAN so I may be wrong on this, but do they not have to connected to the same ring main which is likely not common between floors
Yup, didn’t think of that. I assumed a bit it could work in the same building.
Other idea: Fibaro z-wave wallplugs have been tested and the range was 15m max, with one wall in between the signal.
Maybe that is an option.
Weird how tado still has no range extender or add a hop/mesh function of some kind for the radiatorknobs.
But I found a tip: put the bridge in vertical position, not flat.
And…
Hello everyone!
Thanks for all these answers. I will check the hue option and will still continue to try and test the possibilities!
I let you know when I have some news.
Thanks again!
Anyone who can use the soldering iron can build a Zwave Repeater Monster from an Aeotec Range Extender.
With a booster connected in between, ranges of 50-100 meters are no problem. Sorry, the thread is in German.
If you have wifi there you could try to place a TP-Link deco access point there. It supports ZigBee and i think (though I’m not 100% sure) it can hop ZigBee over wifi to another node (ie, you probably need another deco upstairs i guess)
