ConBee II

… CC2652P/CC2652R/CC2652RB-based USB adapters flashed with Z-Stack coordinator firmware; CC1352P/CC1352R-based USB adapters flashed with Z-Stack coordinator firmware; dresden elektronik deCONZ based Zigbee radios (via the zigpy-deconz library for zigpy); ConBee III (a.k.a. ConBee 3) USB adapter from dresden elektronik; It is not recommended to run a coordinator via Serial-Proxy-Server (also called Serial-to-IP bridge or Ser2Net remote adapter) over:; Wi-Fi,; WAN, or; VPN; Elelabs Zigbee USB Adapter/POPP ZB-Stick; It is suggested to upgrade the EmberZNet NCP application firmware; Elelabs Zigbee …

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Conbee II Deconz.. Nearly perfect ;)

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Disclaimer, I am running my system on a nuc. Some systems don't like playing withnon storage usb devices. 1. Yes a zigbee controller can control hue bulbs. 2. Conbee ii are highly recommended here along with cc2531. Personally I use a husbzb-1 stick for your 3rd question, it does both zigbee and zwave from one stick. I would recommend a stick over a hub because of a few reasons. First is that the stick isn't dependent on the whims of the company producing it. Philips just removed support for the gen 1 hub, this means if you had one you now can't add more devices to it. Second you'll be able …

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I'm using an Intel NUC and Docker with a Conbee II USB stick and deconz. Works perfectly.

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You don't need a hub, just get a supported ZigBee dongle. I currently use a ConBee II and it "just works", but there are several other options that work well, such as the Sonoff ZigBee3.0 USB dongle or even some no-name dongles based on the TI CC2530 or CC2652 chipsets. If you use a USB dongle, make sure you use a short USB extension cable with it (I use a 50cm cable) so that it isn't directly plugged into your HA server and is located away from other USB devices. This makes a _huge_ difference to the radio performance and reliability of the dongle. Contrary to popular opinion on this …

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I'm using the Conbee II stick plugged into my Raspberry Pi which is running Home Assistant. It's pretty old now, and there are some newer options, but it's still working well for me

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I haven't tried ZHA with the cheaper dongles. However I moved all my Zigbee stuff from deconz to ZHA this weekend (using Conbee2 with +/- 50 devices) and after half a day I decided to migrate everything back. I like the idea of using ZHA since it's closer to the HA core, but unfortunately I'm getting much slower responses and delays of sensors and lights. So for now I'll just stick to deconz as the response time is nearly instant compared to ZHA. This is purely anecdotal for my use case so maybe for other people it's fine.

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Conbee is experimental in zigbee2mqtt. Don't ruin your time and get a new adapter, anything with cc2652 will be a much better experience.

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My Conbee 2 never worked in the years I owned it. I ditched zigbee for 5 years because of it. I recently got a Skyconnect (running zigbee only) and it's been flawless so far. .....dump the Conbee.

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Yeah, I'm super happy. My original coordinator I left in place is a Sonoff Dongle-P. The Pi coordinator is a Sonoff Dongle-E. I first used my old Conbee II stick with it as a proof of concept. The Conbee still has some strange issues with Z2M, but did work well enough for testing. If I didn't have the spare Pi lying around, I would have gone with one of the Zigbee PoE Ethernet devices since I have wired network throughout the house. Probably the one you're looking at. Oh, just be sure to set your Z2M to use different MQTT base topics so HA won't get confused. I just used zigbee2mqtt2

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… a full reinstall of my Home Assistant (running on the same NUC since 2019/2020). I thought I might at the same time replace my Zigbee dongle (using a Conbee 2, which is sometimes a bit wonky). What other options do I have? Anything that would also support other protocols? My setup uses a mixture of Zigbee and Wifi, from IKEA, Philips, Shelly, Sonoff, etc. so a proprietary gateway is not an option for me.

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