[solved]zh:controller: Interview failed for '0x001e5e09025d59e2 with error 'Error: AREQ - ZDO - simpleDescRsp after 10000ms'

[TheFozid]

Cant get my SLR2b to connect to the zigbee network. Keep getting the error
zh:controller: Interview failed for '0x001e5e09025d59e2 with error 'Error: AREQ - ZDO - simpleDescRsp after 10000ms'

Full log is
info 2024-12-11 10:12:40z2m:mqtt: MQTT publish: topic 'pive2mqtt/bridge/log', payload '{"message":"announce","meta":{"friendly_name":"HiveSLR2b"},"type":"device_announced"}' info 2024-12-11 10:12:40z2m:mqtt: MQTT publish: topic 'pive2mqtt/bridge/event', payload '{"data":{"friendly_name":"HiveSLR2b","ieee_address":"0x001e5e09025d59e2"},"type":"device_announce"}' info 2024-12-11 10:12:49zh:controller:device: Device '0x001e5e09025d59e2' is only compliant to revision 'pre-21' of the ZigBee specification (current revision: 23). error 2024-12-11 10:13:38zh:controller: Interview failed for '0x001e5e09025d59e2 with error 'Error: AREQ - ZDO - simpleDescRsp after 10000ms' error 2024-12-11 10:13:38z2m: Failed to interview 'HiveSLR2b', device has not successfully been paired info 2024-12-11 10:13:38z2m:mqtt: MQTT publish: topic 'pive2mqtt/bridge/log', payload '{"message":"interview_failed","meta":{"friendly_name":"HiveSLR2b"},"type":"pairing"}' info 2024-12-11 10:13:38z2m:mqtt: MQTT publish: topic 'pive2mqtt/bridge/event', payload '{"data":{"friendly_name":"HiveSLR2b","ieee_address":"0x001e5e09025d59e2","status":"failed"},"type":"device_interview"}'

[TheFozid]

no idea why, but 17th time is a charm. been trying for 3 days. As soon as I post the issue here, it suddenly connects!