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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by huseyinkeles on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:13AM (#21825628)
In a real situation this usually doesn't cause issues. Most of the zigbee devices that you're gonna have (such as light bulbs) are also acting like a zigbee router and it creates a mesh network.

You can even visualise the network if you're using zigbee2mqtt with zigbee2mqtt/bridge/networkmap

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by lgleason on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:49PM (#21829273)
That is true provided that you have devices that correctly act as routers. Sometimes it requires extra repeaters to make the network function correctly as well. Then there is the interference issue from WIFI and Bluetooth devices.
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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by akvadrako on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:16AM (#21834584)
Most zigbee light bulbs are terrible routers. Just because it's supposed to work doesn't mean it does.
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