ConBee III

… 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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I have the cheap, generally hated deconz conbee stick, first few years a conbee 2, now 3. 80 devices, 650 entities. Using ZHA, I never have or had any issue what so ever. For years now. even switching sticks was plug and play. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ guess ymmv

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… Posting this because I could not find a straight answer anywhere and it took me way too long to finally get it to work. Setup: HA OS in a VM on Proxmox, OpenThread Border Router addon running on a ConBee III, Matter Server addon, and a Sonoff dongle for Zigbee on ZHA. Being upfront about this: I did not work this out myself. I ran Claude against the Home Assistant MCP server and it did the actual debugging, reading the addon logs, the Thread network status, the ZHA energy scan and the Matter Server's internal state, then narrowing down which step was failing. Everything below is what it found …

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