New Open Source Hardware board in stock: ESP32-C5-DevKit-Lipo Dual band 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, Zigbee, Thread, Matter in breadboard friendly DIL format
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New Open Source Hardware board in stock: ESP32-C5-DevKit-Lipo Dual band 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, Zigbee, Thread, Matter in breadboard friendly DIL format
https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/new-open-source-hardware-board-in-stock-esp32-c5-devkit-lipo-dual-band-2-4ghz-and-5ghz-wifi-6-bluetooth-5-le-zigbee-thread-matter/ #esp32 #esp32c5 #iot #wifi6 #zigbee #matter

WiFi and #Thread/ #Zigbee networks use overlapping ~2.4Ghz frequencies, and interfere with each other.

I've learned it the hard way. My old gadgets kept losing WiFi connection, so I bought the biggest baddest WiFi router. It made everything way worse!

The router kept picking an "unused" WiFi channel 1, which was the same freq as Thread channel 11 that my HomeKit hub picked for its network. Stronger WiFi kept collapsing my Thread network, and knocked even more devices offline.

WiFi and #Thread/ #Zigbee networks use overlapping ~2.4Ghz frequencies, and interfere with each other.

I've learned it the hard way. My old gadgets kept losing WiFi connection, so I bought the biggest baddest WiFi router. It made everything way worse!

The router kept picking an "unused" WiFi channel 1, which was the same freq as Thread channel 11 that my HomeKit hub picked for its network. Stronger WiFi kept collapsing my Thread network, and knocked even more devices offline.

Migrated my ZigBee2MQTT to BSD, of course running inside a Jail (and with IPv6!) 🙂

All running perfectly fine and as stable as you'd expect from FreeBSD

Plus the rc.d script is so minimalistic and simple, that I don't get it, why anyone would prefer intransparent systemd to that!

Another part of my home-infrastructure migrated over!

#freebsd #jais #zigbee #mqtt #smarthome #unix #homelab

Migrated my ZigBee2MQTT to BSD, of course running inside a Jail (and with IPv6!) 🙂

All running perfectly fine and as stable as you'd expect from FreeBSD

Plus the rc.d script is so minimalistic and simple, that I don't get it, why anyone would prefer intransparent systemd to that!

Another part of my home-infrastructure migrated over!

#freebsd #jais #zigbee #mqtt #smarthome #unix #homelab

For shutters/lights I am using #shelly relays (concealed installation in the walls). I am running #esphome on them but with the stock firmware they can also be used fully locally over WLAN.

For windows/doors I am using cheap #zigbee sensors that you can stick to the frame. A good Zigbee USB stick is around 30 EUR. I have also added several #zigbee relays in strategic places to make the network more robust. Also all fully local using #zigbee2mqtt integration

Reddit posts with others having the same problem here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tradfri/comments/1kzw3nh/tradfriphilips_hue_hardware_incompatibility/

And here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tradfri/s/3mOJATMxtM

Seems to have been going on for a couple of years, now. I bought my initial batch of Tradfri GU10s to go with my existing Hue kit about 6 years ago, and they’ve only just started failing (as have the second hand Hue lamps I bought before that).

#ikea #tradfri #zigbee#Hue#Alexa#homeAssistant

I read a forum post that suggested the overnight automatic firmware update from the Hue hub may be the problem, but disabling this hasn’t improved matters at all.

I’m desperate for a solution, as this has effectively broken my smart lighting setup. I can’t afford to replace all the Tradfri bulbs with Hue, but am considering ditching the Hue hub and the last few Hue bulbs I have (unless they can be connected to a Tradfri hub?)

#ikea #tradfri #zigbee#Hue#Alexa#homeAssistant