# Smartplug kaku apa3-1500r icm ikea verlichting

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/smartplug-kaku-apa3-1500r-icm-ikea-verlichting/27630>\
**Category:** Vragen & hulp\
**Created:** [March 28, 2020, 8:45am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/smartplug-kaku-apa3-1500r-icm-ikea-verlichting/27630 "2020-03-28T08:45:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Caseda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/caseda/32/138695_2.png) [@Caseda](https://community.homey.app/u/Caseda)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/smartplug-kaku-apa3-1500r-icm-ikea-verlichting/27630/24 "2020-04-02T11:45:47Z")

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Zigbee is a low power protocol, designed with batteries and it being a mesh network in mind, WiFi on the contrary isn’t (there is a reason mobile phones only have 1 day of battery life (not just the processor and screen), instead of several months for zigbee devices), so even if you have 100M of signal with WiFi, zigbee gets only 5-10 meter (10 if you are lucky).  
Plus that they often cause more interference, then that they help each other.

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**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/smartplug-kaku-apa3-1500r-icm-ikea-verlichting/27630/25 "2020-04-02T12:04:16Z")

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> [@Caseda](#):
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> (10 if you are lucky)

I guess I’m lucky because I have a few Zigbee devices around my home that are being routed through a router device (IKEA repeater) that’s about 20m away (but I’m also lucky that my iPhone 7 lasts more than 2 days on a charge, and that my Zigbee and WiFi aren’t interfering with each other) 😎

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**Author:** ![Caseda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/caseda/32/138695_2.png) [@Caseda](https://community.homey.app/u/Caseda)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/smartplug-kaku-apa3-1500r-icm-ikea-verlichting/27630/26 "2020-04-02T12:33:33Z")

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But you also aren’t using Homey anymore 😉

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**Author:** ![Dickslinger](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dickslinger/32/17136_2.png) [@Dickslinger](https://community.homey.app/u/Dickslinger)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/smartplug-kaku-apa3-1500r-icm-ikea-verlichting/27630/27 "2020-04-02T14:41:48Z")

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Het ziet er naar uit dat het verplaatsen van de Homey effect heeft gehad , denk dat ik deze positie maar even vasthoudt voor een paar dagen, en daarna jullie een terugkoppeling geef. iig een iedere alvast hartelijk dank

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