# Disconnecting webthings

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/disconnecting-webthings/109989>\
**Category:** WebThings\
**Created:** [January 15, 2023, 10:48am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/disconnecting-webthings/109989 "2023-01-15T10:48:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![cgerhard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@cgerhard](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/cgerhard)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2023, 10:48am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/disconnecting-webthings/109989/1 "2023-01-15T10:48:11Z")

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I have a webthing that the gateway will loose connection to after a period of time, sometimes days, sometimes hours. I can still see the webthing in mdns and I I navigate to the webthings end point in the browser it is running and responds.

Is there anyway to see when a webthing disconnects so I can see in the logs what happened?

Thanks

Chris

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**Author:** ![chaletbenadam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@chaletbenadam](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/chaletbenadam)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/disconnecting-webthings/109989/2 "2023-01-15T12:08:41Z")

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Hi Chris - personally, I have had the worst “disconnecting” issues with Xiaomi/Aqara devices and have put this down to three things:  
a) Aqara devices don’t appear to follow ZigBee 3 standards fully (lots of stuff on the net about this). I worked around this (partially) by lots of debugging and upating of .webthings/addons/zigbee-adapter/lib/zb-xiaomi.js  
b) battery issues - many sensors only have battery power, once the battery drains, the devices disconnect and reconnect - until they eventually die  
c) Zigbee and Wi-Fi channel interfernce (and even Zigbee-Zigbee channel interference - I had two WT gateways in the same room). There is a separate articel on the forum about this topic, but since I moved by secondary gateway to channel 25 (avoid 26 with Ziaomi), all is good - on both gateways.

Hope that helps.

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**Author:** ![cgerhard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@cgerhard](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/cgerhard)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/disconnecting-webthings/109989/3 "2023-01-15T12:14:53Z")

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Thank you, but these are not ZigBee, this is a Web Thing connected via the web thing add on.

Chris