I already have home assistant on a different server with that setup (mqtt and home assistant community app) and i’m actually trying to get rid of it since homey nowadays has all the integrations that i was using from home assistant before and i’m trying to make my setup a bit simpler. It’s not the z-wave causing the issues since same delays are happening with zigbee door / window sensors as well so i’m prettysure the delay happens when homey bridge is telling shs that something has happened. Now it has been a bit better in a way that i haven’t noticed those couple of seconds spikes, but the ping is still pretty much constant +100ms no matter where i place the bridge. I can live with that as long as the delay doesn’t get worse than that.
Perhaps you misunderstood my comment. Z-Wave operates at below 1000 MHz and will not interfere with Zigbee or Wifi, but 2.4 GHz Wifi and Zigbee operate on the same frequency worldwide and can interferre with each other if the selected channels are too close to each other. Unifi and many other WiFi systems are known to cause issues with Zigbee. I don’t have Unifi myself, but I have read many accounts of issues on other forums and I would be surprised if there’s not something on this forum about it as well.
There are many guides to minimizing the issue. I’ve written one such guide in the past. Here’s one from Open Home Foundation. Hope this is helpful.
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How many zigbee and z-wave devices are you trying to use?
In my experience, the Homey Bridge is not powerful enough for any substantial number of devices. When migrating from Homey Pro 2023 to SHS, I experienced a total collapse of my zigbee network after adding approximately 40 devices to the bridge. The majority were routers and these were added first. I switched to zigbee2mqtt and this has been running stable since.
Depending on how many z-wave devices you have, it may or may not be an option, but have you considered an approach in which you move your zigbee network to zigbee2mqtt and keep your z-wave devices on the Homey Bridge?
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It’s the same zigbee chip as 2016-2019 Homey models (if I’m informed right).
Athom advises 30 - 40 devices max. for these, so I think you ran into the limit in your setup.
Performance depends on many other things. One user reported to use 70 zigbee devices with Homey 2019.
