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| homeautomation:protocols:zigbee [2025/06/04 08:27] – [Home Assistant] willy | homeautomation:protocols:zigbee [2025/06/04 08:30] (current) – [Home Assistant] willy |
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| Home Assistant provides at least two different implementations for ZigBee. The main one, which i am using, is called [[https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha|ZHA]], or ZigBee Home Automation. This is native in Home Assistant and overall preferred to the ZigBee2MQTT solution. This last one only advantage might be to de-couple your ZigBee stuff from Home Assistant itself, if you prefer. | Home Assistant provides at least two different implementations for ZigBee. The main one, which i am using, is called [[https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha|ZHA]], or ZigBee Home Automation. This is native in Home Assistant and overall preferred to the ZigBee2MQTT solution. This last one only advantage might be to de-couple your ZigBee stuff from Home Assistant itself, if you prefer. |
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| ZHA needs to install it from the add-ons page in your Home Assistent installation, then you can start activating your ZigBee devices and pair them, one at a time. | ZHA needs to install it from the add-ons page in your Home Assistant installation, then you can start activating your ZigBee devices and pair them, one at a time. |
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| | === Coordinator Hardware selection === |
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| | At first i bought a cheap chinese coordinator, which worked fine up to 30 or 40 devices. Then i moved to a nice Sonoff coordinator with an external antenna and a Texas Instrument chipset, which gave me only issues and not a good overall coverage. At last i choose to move to a Home Assistant Green appliance and purchased the associated recomended //Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1// device. |
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| | So far, the ZBT-1 has proven to be the **best** coordinator i have tried. YMMV. |
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| === Naming Convention === | === Naming Convention === |
