Hey , Drop in and share a recent headache I finally cracked — maybe it’ll save someone else the pain.
So I’ve got an M2 hub with about a dozen Aqara sensors around the place. All worked fine for weeks. Then, randomly, devices just started…vanishing. First a temp sensor, then a contact sensor. Not offline, not throwing errors — totally disappeared from the app like they were never paired. Spooky stuff.
After a few (okay, MANY) late-night Google spirals and resets, turns out the culprit was my Wi-Fi router’s mesh setting. When the hub switched between mesh points, it silently dropped its Zigbee network somehow. Boom — sensors gone.
Fixed it by manually assigning the Aqara hub to ONLY connect to the main router node. Once I did that, everything came back and stayed solid. No more ghost sensors.
Lesson learned: your Zigbee mesh can get real moody if your Wi-Fi network plays musical chairs.
Anyone else run into this? Curious if other setups (like the M3) handle this better. Drop your stories — I can’t be the only one feeling haunted by disappearing devices!
@GoogleHomeGuru Thank you for sharing your experience with the M2 hub and the disappearing devices issue. It’s great to hear that you managed to solve the problem by adjusting your Wi-Fi router’s mesh settings. Your solution of assigning the Aqara hub to connect only to the main router node is a valuable tip for others facing similar issues.
Regarding your curiosity about the M3 hub, it indeed offers some advanced features that might help in such scenarios. The Aqara Hub M3 can form a hub cluster and act as a leading hub, which enhances the stability and reliability of your smart home setup. It also supports Edge automations, which are more stable and faster than cloud-based ones. This could potentially mitigate issues related to network changes, as the M3 is designed to dynamically choose the optimal node as the leading hub based on real-time assessments of load, network communication capabilities, and wireless signal strength.
Feel free to share more of your experiences or ask further questions. It’s always helpful to hear how others are navigating their smart home setups!