hello, I’m new with zigbee. I would like to extend the coverage from our house to the garden and workshop. can I do that with the SONOFF Zigbee Bridge Ultra that will be connected by lan cable to the IHost? thank you.
Bridge Ultra is not a Zigbee router. If you connect it to your local network, it will - as the name suggests - be a bridge. It will create a separate Zigbee network. This way you will be able to cover another area with Zigbee, but it will not be an extension of your existing network. Besides, the ZBBridge Ultra would be a rather expensive router. Instead, use any device that is powered not by batteries. For example, a Zigbee light bulb.
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ok thank you Jam3:-) I will make some researches.
found on the web.
Zigbee Bridge Ultra Upgraded as a Matter Hub
https://appcms.coolkit.cn/ewelink/hot/24302.html?alwaysopeninapp=true
There is such a question. Will the matter presence sensors work, for example from Acar? They have 2-in-1 sensors, a presence sensor with a motion sensor and with zone detection and distance measurement to an object. Will such sensors work fully in Ewelink as in the native ecosystem or will the functionality be cut? The question concerns the zb bridge - u. It seems to me that it will not be revealed to its full potential, since it will not be possible to use these capabilities in scenes due to the lack of such parameters in the scene. Then the question. What is the use of matter if it is impossible to fully use matter devices???
not supported by ultra now, but NSPro will be ok with it.
Thanks. But in my opinion, ncp is an expensive and useless thing.
If it won’t add much value to your setup, you can wait for ultra to upgrade its capability for Matter Hub.
Well, of course I will wait. Support with full functionality of matter devices will be another reason to replace zb bredg pro with ultra. And when can we expect it? But I am still held back by the fact that I will have to reconfigure all devices and scenes. Perhaps your team is working on a method for transferring scenes from one hub to another? Or should I not count on it???
I think sonoff has been researching on such options.