Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2

If you already have a pi, the home assistant green is in no way better. It’s the same thing. There is not any sketchy diy to it, you just install HAOS and it works exactly how the green does. Also don’t get the zbt-1. Get the zbt-2 with much better performance.

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USB: Nabu Casa ZBT-2 Ethernet: SMLIGHT SLZB-06

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Strongly disagree, i have zbt2 and lots of sensors from ikea and all work perfectly through ha matter server and open thread border router.

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Go with the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2. It's open source, and its purchase supports the team developing Home Assistant. The hardware is well built and firmly supported. Those who are suggesting using SM-Light devices seem to have missed that the company who produces these now has very opaque ownership and only develops the closed-source firmware. The devices have a large number of exposed radios which cannot be reliably turned off so that it functions exclusively as a Zigbee coordinator. The two biggest reasons to buy one of the SM-Light products that were historically cited (supporting …

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Hey great to have you as a part of the community! I would not buy that sonoff zigbee device it's definitely an older and not great option. The new ZBT-2 by Nabu Casa is by far the best zigbee coordinator out there and people saw meaningful improvements in their zigbee meshes once they switched over to it. Third reality makes some pretty good hardware with no real firmware issues although I'd personally suggest zooz z-wave leak sensors paired with a ZWA-2 (also by Nabu Casa). as far as motion sensors you cant go wrong with hue (paired to zigbee2mqtt) although I'd also consider the cheaper …

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The problem Hi, I initially installed the Thread firmware on my ZBT-2 when I first received it. Later, I removed the ZBT-2 from Home Assistant and reconnected it. At that point, I tried to flash the Zigbee firmware, but the flashing process failed. I then moved the ZBT-2 to my desktop PC and reflashed the Zigbee firmware there, which worked without any issues. However, when I reconnect the ZBT-2 to my mini PC, the Home Assistant VM crashes. After restarting the VM and trying to add the ZBT-2 again, selecting the Zigbee firmware that was successfully installed on my desktop PC, I get an error. …

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OTBR Nightmare. So desperate, Please!!. Upgrading to ZBT-2 led to my OTBR add on unaliving itself. Won't go back to normal even after plugging the old ZBT-1 Sky connect back in... Issue remains after multiple reboots and even reverting to previous backup. Looking at the logs here are some of the main errors I receive. \[W\] DuaManager----: Failed to perform next registration: NotFound \[N\] MeshForwarder-: Dropping rx frag frame, error:Drop, len: \[N\] MeshForwarder-: Dropping IPv6 UDP msg, len: \[W\] Mle-----------: Failed to process Child Update Response as child: NotFound Been like this …

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An update on "I'm done with Matter over Thread". Two weeks ago, I outed my frustration with Matter over Thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1qymc6q/im\_done\_with\_matter\_over\_thread/) and got more reactions than I anticipated, both agreeing and disagreeing. Small update for who is interested. My setup was: ZBT-2 Connect, Eve Energy Thread smart plugs and Ikea sensors. Issue: constant disconnects, impossible to troubleshoot. So: re-flashed the ZBT-2 with the Zigbee firmware, replaced the useless Eve Energy plugs with Sonoff Zigbee smart plugs to act as routers and the …

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NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH 🚀 - Any guesses on what HA is launching on Nov 19?. Home Assistant just posted a teaser for a new hardware launch on November 19, and now I’m really wondering what they’re about to announce. The silhouette in the image looks a lot like some kind of new hub or radio device. And with the recent Silabs firmware updates mentioning what seems to be a Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2, it really feels like we might be getting an upgraded version of the HA Connect stick, probably with support for both Zigbee and Matter over Thread. YouTube teaser: …

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