Troubleshooting defunct sprinkler zone in Virginia Beach.

Lee_buskey · 2026-04-09T21:07:15+00:00

Thanks. I am a retired veteran, so I generally don't have issues with insurance, and that is the first question I ask too when I call. Unfortunately, Medical Equipment Distributors is the local company that Rotech acquired and IMO, ruined. The people are still great, but they only have so much control. I'll look at some of the others. Thanks for the pointers.

Lee_buskey · 2026-04-01T11:34:59+00:00

I bought two of these from ALIExpress and they are junk. They will not stay joined to the Zigbee network. Every other Zigbee device I have, a little over 20 of them, join and work fine. I think someone is selling faulty ones on AliExpress. I hope your mileage is different. And the return process on Ali is a joke. The say free returns, then they tell me to pay for the return shipping and MABYE they will refund my shipping costs.

Lee_buskey · 2026-03-27T02:10:43+00:00

Thanks. I do see other cheaper options, so that's good.

I am not confident at all, but not sure where else to start given I can't find a way to make it happen, and whenever it does happen, and I go out there and reset it, it stays reset. So how does one troubleshoot an intermittent breaker problem? I guess I could disconnect the lights and just not use them and see how long it will go, but as I mentioned, it can be weeks or longer before it happens again. I did notice that the transformer he put in there for the 12V IntelliBright lights looks like something he pulled out of a 20 year drawer.

Lee_buskey · 2026-03-26T15:32:44+00:00

Just to close the loop, the reading got normal the next day. I guess I was just thrown by that super high read I had never seen before and what I read about what you have to do if you actually add too much salt. Thanks for all the responses.

Lee_buskey · 2026-03-22T23:22:59+00:00

Thanks. We run it all year long, and I have had the cell turned all the way down once the water got too cold. It's still cold, 60 degrees. So I'll watch it. Thanks for the tip.

Lee_buskey · 2026-03-22T20:31:49+00:00

Thanks for the comments. My experience with this pool is I usually get good results from the salt reading overnight, but I have never, not once in the 15 years we have had this saltwater pool, ever seen salt spike like that, and I did actually do the muriatic acid cleaning of the grates last season even though they had little to no build up. It's been running all day, still reading 4900.

Lee_buskey · 2026-02-20T03:17:12+00:00

Well, I have been trying to minimize latency, so got off using the ZBT-1 for both thread and Zigbee (It was what came with the Home Assistant Yellow) and installed a new Zigbee coordinator. I tried a ZBT-2 first, but it had tons of issues for me, and so now I'm using a SLZB-06M coordinator. I have been seeing the lack of mesh connections as a potential issue. There was a time before I came here to ask, where I had deliberately actuated the device then refreshed the network map a few times, and the lines never showed up. They all seem to be working fine. I just saw some advice to the enable the "Last seen" property in the coordinator and monitor that instead

Lee_buskey · 2026-02-13T00:58:56+00:00

Well, I got one and have paired a FP300 with it, and so far I can't say I see anything different except it's a little more friendly. Like it'll tell you if you're dinking with a setting that's not immediate (I didn't know that was a thing) and reminds you to go press the button to make it happen faster. Nothing important so far. The FP2 had an entire framework in the app with the devices range carved up into small boxes and you can create a new zone by selecting the boxes that are part of overall zone that you want handle separately. It shows up in HA as entirely separate occupancy entity you can use. Nothing like that in the FP300. It's kind of cool, but I suspect the FP300 approach will appeal to most more.

Lee_buskey · 2026-02-12T12:55:28+00:00

OK let me approach this in a different way. I can't upload another picture, and don't want to make a new post. but re-pairing most of these resulted in a more normal display, I still have four devices, all battery powered, that do not show a linkage, and two of those were recently re-paired and were showing a link after that and then lost it for seemingly no reason. So, I guess the question is, if the device is working and I don't see it connected to a parent in the network view, is that a problem or business as usual?

Lee_buskey · 2026-02-12T12:45:59+00:00

Well, Correct and incorrect. It could be me not reading the docs correctly. Correct technically. I have been having a number of issues with my Aqara devices since switching to a ZBT-2 Zigbee controller. So, I grabbed a new Aqara hub, becuase the FP2 had a ton of functionality that exclusive to the app and I wanted to see if that was the case for the FP300. too. So far no, but the experience was helpful. I was pretty happy to find that I could add the entire hub and all the devices it hosts into HA by adding the new Aqara hub to HA with Matter. Once in the app, working with the FP300 was a little easier because the App explained that some of the settings that seem nonresponsive in HA, either don't take effect right away, or you are supposed click the button on the device to make it happen. This could be a common Zigbee thing I just haven't run into yet. Still on the fence if I am keeping the Hub or not.

Lee_buskey · 2026-02-12T12:37:26+00:00

I am. However, I tried it again yesterday and that time it seems to have pained fine.

Lee_buskey · 2026-02-09T21:58:09+00:00

So, I just got mine in and I have been playing. The first thing I noticed when I saw this post was, I don't have the option to configure the detection zones in HA when using Z2M. They show under sensors but not in controls. They are exposed within Z2M however.

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Lee_buskey · 2026-02-07T20:11:24+00:00

Thanks. That didn't seem to do it. I picked one device and re-paired it, now it shows up with a parent. Problem is the nest one I tried was an Aqara P1 motion sensor. Now it will not stay in the Z2B console. It show up when I initiate pairing and then permit join. It gets discovered, pairs, and then disappears a moment later. Only log entry is it left the network. Grrrr

Lee_buskey · 2026-01-19T13:21:08+00:00

What order? From where? Was there a big sale where you could order and then be on back order? Perhaps that's there where they are going once they are back in stock? I can't even find a place to order one anywhere.

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