Zigbee Home Automation

I ran Hue via the Phillips hub in HA for years until a few weeks ago when I inadvertently reset the hub and lost the pairing to my 50+ bulbs and accessories. Since I had to re-pair everything anyway, I decided to try foregoing the hub and just used ZHA and a Sonoff dongle and so far it's been a better experience. By far the worst part was having to delete the whole Philips setup in the Echo configuration and rebuild all the Alexa-side stuff to connect through HA, but now that that's done everything seems much more reliable.

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When the Hue bulbs are removed from the bridge they go into pairing mode. I migrated from one zigbee controller to another recently and it was thankfully very easy.

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I used the Hue integration for about a week before I wanted to explore other options. I nuked my Hue system and installed a SLZB-06 Zigbee Coordinator and used the native ZHA integration in Home Assistant. I have about 50 Hue bulbs, 6 Hue Switches and a handful of other Zigbee sensors all working. It’s really satisfying to have it all work with no reliance on Philips servers or systems.

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… 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 bought the sonoff zigbee dongle but then i switched to the smlight ethernet radio also I started out with ZHA but everyone told me to switch to Z2M but I switched back to ZHA because half of my devices weren't compatible with Z2M.

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I strongly suggest to go the SMLIGHT SLZB-06 (preferably M version) way. The fact that it's a network device, so you don't need to do USB device mapping is great. And it's rock-solid. One friendly suggestion - running HA in docker is not exactly the most pleasing experience. You cannot use addons (at least not easily), you cannot use updates, lots of things do not work as they would in VM or bare metal (e.g. logs, disk usage analysis, ...). The experience for me was significantly better when I moved from docker to VM. There was some initial pain (EFI), but once set up, it is a pleasure and …

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So I went ahead and successfully migrated from my ZBT-1 USB dongle (ember) to SNZB-06p7U (zstack) in my family home - and I didn’t have to re-pair a single one of my 20+ devices!! I followed the instructions here, assuming that re-pairing is NOT required in step 3: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/faq/#how-do-i-migrate-from-one-adapter-to-another Now that is some good news. I was expecting some trouble, but no, it worked better than expected. I had to follow this (expected) procedure though, as Zigbee2MQTT would’t start at the first time: …

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… based radios using the EZSP protocol (via the bellows library for zigpy); ITead SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus Model "ZBDongle-E" (EFR32MG21 variant); SMLIGHT SLZB-07 (EFR32MG21-based USB dongle); Texas Instruments based radios (via the zigpy-znp library for zigpy); 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 …

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I'm always so confused by posts on here complaining about having to do complicated stuff like this and still having problems. I have a bunch of Phillips Hue bulbs, Sonoff door and temperature sensors going through a SkyConnect, and they work totally fine with ZHA 100% of the time. They're pretty spread out over my house and I did absolutely nothing to optimize the network. What are you guys doing that causes so many problems? Is it other brands of Zigbee devices? I assume I've gotten lucky somehow with my setup.

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I have tado for my thermostat but I wouldn’t recommend them anymore as they keep trying to charge for various things. TRVs I have sonoff ones connected directly to ZHA, I like these a lot. Having an issue where they don’t seem to close properly but I’m 99% sure that’s with how I have them set up through better thermostat

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Check out the Sonoff ZigBee 3.0 dongle. It's only $10-$15 and it's using the latest ZigBee chip/hardware that's an upgrade with several improvements over most of the other commonly recommended zigbee sticks (such as the conbee2, husbzb, and many others) and it's a killer price. Other CC2652-based coordinators will also work equally well but right now none of them can compete with the Sonoff on price (or availability) This zigbee stick (when used with ZHA or Zigbee2mqtt) will allow you to use *any* ZigBee device regardless of brand and without any additional hardware or hubs (regardless of …

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… interference. Not sure why it was so bad all of a sudden, perhaps a nearby neighbor with a new network really loud on the same channel I was using, etc. Moved dongle onto usb extension cable to put it far from anything that would cause interference, and then moved my internal networks away from the zigbee channel. This helped me a bunch as well... https://www.metageek.com/training/resources/zigbee-wifi-coexistence/

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i got the sonoff delivered today and have added it to HA (haven't actually paired any devices to it yet), i actually didn't need to do much other than plug it in and HA automatically found it and prompted me to add it it. it shows up as a "Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus v2" should i bother with the Thread/Matter update you linked to? haven't checked what firmware is on it yet, or if it can be updated from with HA or not.

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Supported devices: Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2: USB adapter. If you are setting up a new Zigbee network, this is the one to get.; Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1: USB adapter. Discontinued and replaced by the Connect ZBT-2, but fully supported if you already have one.; Home Assistant Yellow: hub with a built-in Zigbee radio. Currently out of stock, but fully supported if you already have one.; Silicon Labs EmberZNet based radios using the EZSP protocol (via the bellows library for zigpy); ITead SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus Model "ZBDongle-E" (EFR32MG21 variant); SMLIGHT SLZB-07 …

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If you've got a Zigbee network, I'm using two ThirdReality energy monitoring plugs to monitor our laundry machines (the dryer is a gas dryer, which uses a standard 120v plug in the US). They're competitively priced with WiFi outlets ($12 per/$40 for 4) and work wonderfully with both ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT.

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I've bought quite a few Tuya-based ZigBee devices from AliExpress - lights, smart plugs and presence sensors, and so far it's all been fine. The physical devices are all pretty simple, and Tuya's ZigBee implementation appears to be solid enough. Everything has worked straight away with ZHA and a ConBee II, they mesh fine, and everything has done what it's supposed to do. The instructions are usually terrible, but it's a ZigBee device - once it's paired there's not much to do. Currently waiting on some ZigBee no-neutral light switches to arrive (also Tuya-based) to control existing dumb …

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I just switched over 80+ hue devices (mostly bulbs) from two hue hubs to one ZBT-1 last night. I was impressed with how quickly I was able to pair the bulbs after I had deleted them from the Hue app. To your point, the Hue app is great but, I never needed the features it provided and like the idea of HA being my hub for as much as possible. Keep your hub plugged in as I had to re-pair 2 of the 80+ because they didn't reset properly. The turn on/off reset witchcraft never worked for me. Now I have two ports back on my switch and one less app to worry about. Homekit Bridge freaked so I'm …

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I have a Zen Zigbee edition. Works better on ZHA, works fine on Zigbee2MQTT.

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If you have a Zigbee dongle you can use the Zen thermostat. https://zenecosystems.com/home/zenthermostat/ You can find them used on eBay for fairly cheap. I think I got mine for $40. It's a good little thermostat with all the basic functions of a smart thermostat but if you connect it up to ZHA throw down the thermostat card on your dashboard and you're good.

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Supported devices: Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2: USB adapter. If you are setting up a new Zigbee network, this is the one to get.; Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1: USB adapter. Discontinued and replaced by the Connect ZBT-2, but fully supported if you already have one.; Home Assistant Yellow: hub with a built-in Zigbee radio. Currently out of stock, but fully supported if you already have one.; Silicon Labs EmberZNet based radios using the EZSP protocol (via the bellows library for zigpy); ITead SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus Model "ZBDongle-E" (EFR32MG21 variant); SMLIGHT SLZB-07 …

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… play nice, but I disagree. I use ZHA with a Conbee 2. I have currently 58 Zigbee devices, over half of the battery powered devices are Aquara devices, and they never drop of the network, or have short battery life. I actually have more problems with Ikea remotes eating battery and having to be re-paired everytime the battery drops below 16% The key is to have a good mix of AC and battery powered devices. So in my network I have Battery powered: 17 Aquara Magnet sensor. 9 Aquara Motion sensor. 3 Aquara Environment sensor. 2 Aquara Vibration sensor. 1 Aquara Cube 5 Heiman Smoke Alarm 5 Ikea …

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I have often trouble with Aqara stuf in ZHA, mainly with sensors. MQTT should work better I'm told but I dont want that. With the Aqara hub E1 they all work fine as HomeKit device.

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I have downgrade and now I have: ZHA with SkyConnect: Aqara Smart plug 01 firmware 22 no power values Aqara Smart plug 02 firmware 32 no power values Aqara Smart plug 03 firmware 41 no power values Aqara Smart plug 04 firmware 32 power values fine ZHA with Deconz: Aqara Smart plug 01 firmware 22 power values fine Aqara Smart plug 02 firmware 32 power values fine Aqara Smart plug 03 firmware 41 power values fine Aqara Smart plug 04 firmware 32 power values fine But I found a difference on the aqara that do not work with SkyConnect and the ones that do work it is related to IEEE address …

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… rebuilt everything from the ground up while moving from HA Yellow to a VM. Had the chance to change back but stuck with ZHA. 75 devices, mostly hue bulbs, Aqara sensors, and inovelli switches. The only device I've had any issue with is the Aqara T1M randomly turning on. And supposedly there is a pending merge to fix the problem it had, but it has been pending for an unreasonable time. So for that and I have an Aqara M3 hub. I'm not active enough on GitHub to know if the slow merge for this one issue is an indicator of a bigger problem.

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I bought a few Aqara temp and humidity sensors after really enjoying their door and window sensors, but to be honest I don’t like the randomness of the temp and humidity sensor. It seems to update when there is a big enough change in temp and humidity, but not always quickly enough. I use temp and humidity sensors to automate my ceiling fans and so far the best solution seems to be making one with and esp8266.

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The blakadder zigbee database also has a note at the bottom of their aqara sensor pages that offers more suggestions https://zigbee.blakadder.com/Aqara_RTCGQ11LM.html Yes, a 2nd zigbee coordinator is required. Sadly you can’t share coordinators. I have one for z2M and one for ZHA and you are correct that having no coordinators is counter intuitive but having your devices drop every few hours and then repairing is a master class in insanity.

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… officially recommended, because ZHA puts Zigbee devices in a very bad light. So, I own the following devices that I'm evaluating: Aeotec aërQ (ZWA039-C), Aqara TVOC (AAQS-S01) and Sonoff ZigBee LCD Temperature & Humidity Sensor (SNZB-02D). I picked Z-Wave JS UI, instead of the official add-on, based on the FAQ answer. It works great, and offers lots of configuration options and insights about devices. I installed Zigbee Home Automation. The experience with ZigBee devices (using ZHA) was horrible. Reports delayed (often too late, or only after a way too big change), no configuration options, …

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The problem When I expose TVOC sensor to HomeKit from Home Assistant i get wrong Air Quality Index. If same sensor is exposed directly to HomeKit Air Quality Index is displayed correctly. I'm not absolutely sure that HA HomeKit is sending AQI to next to TVOC data, but TVOC sensor exposed directly (with Aqara HomeKit integration) have correct AQI. Exposure from Home Assistant: TVOC 76ug/m3 -> Air Quality Inferior Direct connect to HomeKit TVOC 170ug/m3 -> Air Quality Excellent Example of correct TVOC level to IAQ (Indoor Air Quality) 1. Excelent 10mg/m3 ### What version of Home Assistant Core …

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Welcome to the wonderful world of aqara sensors! They don’t play nice with certain zigbee routers, this comes directly from the ZHA documentation (not an exhaustive list of routers and same issue is true for Z2M) https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/ “Note that some Zigbee devices are not fully compatible with all brands of Zigbee router devices. Xiaomi/Aqara devices are for example known not to work with Zigbee router devices from Centralite, General Electrics, Iris, Ledvance/OSRAM, LIGHTIFY/Sylvania, Orvibo, PEQ, Securifi, and SmartThings/Samsung. Better results can usually be …

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I had nothing but issues with Aqara devices when on ZHA, I switched to Z2M and I’ve not had a single device drop in over a year. I’ve no idea why. I’m just shy of 100 devices now.

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… known for issues, not really for connection problems but mostly for sometimes failing to send out commands. I have similar issues but worked around it. Aqara devices do not adhere to Zigbee standard. In short, they fail to reroute once they lose connection to a router/coordinator and will require repairing. If you for example take the power of a Zigbee router (e.g. light) or have a power outage, expect to have to repair at least a few of them.

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This topic comes up 1 or twice a week. Short answer is that aqara does not play nice with certain routers, long answer is here https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/s/bcHABqoAvm

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Supported devices: Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2: USB adapter. If you are setting up a new Zigbee network, this is the one to get.; Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1: USB adapter. Discontinued and replaced by the Connect ZBT-2, but fully supported if you already have one.; Home Assistant Yellow: hub with a built-in Zigbee radio. Currently out of stock, but fully supported if you already have one.; Silicon Labs EmberZNet based radios using the EZSP protocol (via the bellows library for zigpy); ITead SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus Model "ZBDongle-E" (EFR32MG21 variant); SMLIGHT SLZB-07 …

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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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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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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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I use a Elelabs USB stick with zha (same as HUSBZB) and I'm pretty happy with it. It improved a lot in the past few months, and I like the simplicity of the stack. Still some rough edges (I don't think I have battery reporting for example).

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… year. The main reason I moved to ZHA was lack of support for Hampton Bay/King of Fans in deCONZ. I haven't looked back. Main things to consider are: * GE Link bulbs work but have really crappy antennas. I just migrated to Ecosmart bulbs and see a big improvement in my network map. Plus now I can do circadian-based lighting in my bedroom and office! * The IKEA plugs also have weak antennas... I have one 4 feet from two different Hue bulbs and I might lose an on/off 10% of the time. I might replace them with Peanut plugs eventually. * I haven't had problems with Hue bulbs in my mesh. * The …

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@bdraco Yes I can. I use the following Hardware: > > * LED Controller: Gledopto, GL-C-008P [gledopto.eu/rgbcct-led-controller-zigbee-compatible-eng] (https://www.gledopto.eu/rgbcct-led-controller-zigbee-compatible-eng) I found it here https://www.amazon.com/GLEDOPTO-Controller-Control-Compatible-SmartThings/dp/B08KDL8MHX and ordered it Looks like this will work for power https://www.amazon.com/110V-220V-Converter-Lighting-Transformer-Flexible/dp/B073QTNF9F so I picked up that as well > * Some China LED Strip. Testet it with 3+2 and 5 in 1 Ideally I get the exact same one you are using. Do you …

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… off appear to be primarily Aqara motion and door/window sensors. I've got a total of 37 Aqara devices. I'm running HAOS on a VM in Unraid. I'm using a Skyconnect on Channel 11. My 2.4 Ghz wifi is running on channels 6 and 11. Did I max out my Skyconnect? Any suggestions for steps to fix this? I do have a Sonoff ZBDongle-E that I could swap for the Skyconnect.

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… following all of the "rules". Getting cyclical Zigbee coordinator disconnections. My coordinator is LAN-based, so it's not USB3 interference. I had a SkyConnect, which was largely stable, but a little sluggish. Every couple of weeks the network would go down, and I had to reseat the dongle for everything to come back online. I reached out to the SC devs and asked about device limits, to which they responded the SC had no device limit but you could expect a slowdown after ~50 devices without routers. My network is 56 devices with 37 routers and 19 edge. Regardless, I thought getting a stronger …

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… bigger gap in functionality?. I just use ZHA, and I have not had any problems. My devices all work and do everything they were advertised to do. I have two hue wall switches as well. They work. If you are already familiar with Z2M, then maybe stick with that... but I have been dealing with HA for 3 years now since switching from Hubitat and have not seen any reason to switch from ZHA to Z2M.

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I'm experiencing similar frustrations with Zigbee on HA. One thing I can tell you is that the HUSBZB-1 and ZHA won't help. That's what I'm on. I'm going to give the Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 dongle a try when they come off backorder. Then probably move back to SmartThings if I'm still having problems.

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The problem Controlling IKEA FYRTUR cover in Home Assistant using ZHA and setting to any value besides 0% or 100% causes state for device passed through HomeKit bridge to continuously report "Opening..." in home app. As I'm having this same problem, I'm really just opening this issue as another user suggested in the following discussion: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/opening-closing-state-of-ikea-fyrtur-blind-with-zha-does-not-get-updated/513653 ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2024.1.3 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No …

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Yes, the IKEA ones do. I can lick my fingers and touch the prongs and they’ll beep. I’m not convinced they’re the best sensor out there as they’re being really frustrating to get added to Home Assistant (using ZPA) but once they’re in they seem to be working.

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The problem I am trying to use the Advanced Mode option to create stateless switches in HomeKit for an IKEA SOMRIG switch paired with Home Assistant via ZHA. When I select the switch's device in the "Advanced Configuration" step of the bridge settings, the bridge becomes unresponsive in HomeKit and when I view the logs I find this error: [code] I've included the full debug log below. From the perspective of the Home Assistant UI, this is a silent failure: there are no UI clues that there's anything wrong with the bridge. Searching for existing issues, I found #81685 which appears to be the …

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I have the table one and I love it, unfortunately even if I clear the sensor, it always measure +10 than my air quality one( ikeia also). Another thing is at least in ZHA, there is no dedicated automatic, it the same as the dial on the device, the first position is auto, then 20%, 30% etc. On ZHA the auto indicates 10%, so if the sensor forces to 100%,both the led on the device and HA will indicate 10%. Other than that is great.

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Yeah 100%. In terms of Zigbee stability Ikea Tradfri is also good, but: - Dimming is worse (lowest brightness is way brighter than all my Hue bulbs) - Color reproduction is worse, especially blues - And most importantly they reset by powering off and back on a couple of times in a row. Guess what my kids like to do?

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https://preview.redd.it/kaunrpvrcsma1.jpeg?width=1160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=18e69875e64d2d889b5d11a11158335e5f25cb49 PM exposed to Apple HomeKit, together with temperature and humidity

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I noticed the same issue with my ikea button and with some Aqara sensors. When i first installed them, i was going through a battery per device almost every 2 weeks. My eventual solution was to ensure that each sensor was on-boarded to ZHA against the closest Zigbee router (light bulb/plug socket). I went into the nearest router device under the ZHA integration and selected 'Add device via this device' and then re-paired the sensor/button. Since i've done this, my batteries have all stopped draining and they also appear to be a lot more stable when connecting to HA.

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https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/#advanced-ota-configuration Okay, but the updates for IKEA devices are disabled on purpose. Their remotes lose the ability to bind to groups. On the latest fw, you can only bind them to individual devices (\~4 lights onOff + levelCtrl)

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ZigBee switches battery draining really fast using ZHA?. I just bought 3 ZigBee scene switches, and everything works and is discovered, but I have an issue where the battery seems to drain really fast (even tho the switch hardly gets used) it was used maybe 10-20 presses? (A week or two) and the battery is dead. Anyone know what the problem could be? I have tried with multiple batteries (same pack of batteries tho) but same issue. The switch is Lonsonho TS0042. Surely the battery life on a cr2032 isn't that low? I expected at least a month of use? Could it be relating to ZHA? Should I try …

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I run my Philips hue bulbs (20 bulbs) and 90 other devices (Inovelli switches, third reality outlets, window and motion sensors) on zbt2. It is very stable now. The biggest caveat is the philips hue bulb firmware will not update over the air if they are not on the pholips Hue hub. This is a disadvantage worth considering. If I want to update firmware on my bulbs, I would need to drag my phone around and do it over Bluetooth next to each bulb using the philips hue Mobile app. Needless to say, that hasn't happened much. I'm not going to move back to using a hue hub but firmware update OTA is a …

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I had issues miximg hue bulbs and xiaomi / aqara devices on the same zigbee mesh: aqara sensors would drop from time to time when they are routed through hue bulbs. with a lot of sensors it looked like this: everything works fine for a week or two, then half of my automations would stop workong because of dropped sensors (i rely heavily on aqara motion and door sensors) the solution for me was to split the mesh: aqara and trådfri on ZHA hue and sonoff on z2m it has been working for 2 months now and it seems quite stable. there was only 2 sensors that got dropped since the split which i could …

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Honestly, shelly being quite new to ZigBee, they are not the best. While I rally have no complaint when using them over wifi, the ZigBee experience, while stable once set up, was not.a smooth experience to set up for me for who knows what reason.

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I use them with ZHA. Connecting was no problem and they've never fallen offline. However, for some reason I can't toggle them open or closed. I have to set them to 0% or 100% using a slider. For me this hasn't been a big issue as they are all opened and closed via different scenes anyway but I could see how that would be a huge issue for most people. When I first got them I did some troubleshooting and saw some people were trying to create a fix and others were just switching to MQTT.

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The problem My Sonoff S60ZBTPF don't report 0 value on power and current when is swhitched off. It's a known bug and being resolved for the zigbee2mqtt integration. The firmware version is not displayed too ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? 2025.12.0 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant OS ### Integration causing the issue ZHA ### Link to integration documentation on our website _No response_ ### Diagnostics information _No response_ ### Example YAML snippet [code] ### …

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… because ZHA puts Zigbee devices in a very bad light. So, I own the following devices that I'm evaluating: Aeotec aërQ (ZWA039-C), Aqara TVOC (AAQS-S01) and Sonoff ZigBee LCD Temperature & Humidity Sensor (SNZB-02D). I picked Z-Wave JS UI, instead of the official add-on, based on the FAQ answer. It works great, and offers lots of configuration options and insights about devices. I installed Zigbee Home Automation. The experience with ZigBee devices (using ZHA) was horrible. Reports delayed (often too late, or only after a way too big change), no configuration options, no debug info, almost …

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… devices but stroboscopic effect. The coordinator is not reachable thus, it is not possible to control devices. ### Coordinator Generic Aliexpress EFR32MG21 : https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003578599189.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.0.0.46f01802MxU13p - Version : 6.10.3.0 build 297 - Stack version : 8 - Firmware : https://github.com/xsp1989/zigbeeFirmware/blob/master/firmware/Zigbee3.0_Dongle-NoSigned/EZSP/ncp-uart-sw_v6.10.3_115200.gbl Tried a different SDK version (6.7.9 : where the issue first appeared) then with a different coordinator (same chipset) with the same result. (Sonoff-E …

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I have the P variant, and I encountered significant difficulties when using it with ZHA. However, as soon as I switched to Z2M, all my issues related to the Zigbee network losing connection were effectively resolved.

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I have the same issue as well with a Sonoff ZBMINIL2 zigbee device on a switch that has no battery, yet I get this error with each reboot. There is no sensor in my list of items to include/exclude for Homekit that matches this, so I'm at a loss how to resolve this. [code]

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Same issue with the CC2652-P (Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle-P) since the update from 2023.12.4 to 2024.1.2. Downgraded to 2023.12.4 and works again. > I have a CC2652-P (Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle-P) and mine too stopped working following the .1 update, I just flashed my firmware with CC1352P2_CC2652P_launchpad_coordinator_20230507.hex via Python cc2538-bsl.py script and now it all works again. There are a bunch of versions of the firmware, make sure you get the right one for your device. Thanks for the advice! I'll try it on the weekend.

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i bought the sonoff zigbee dongle but then i switched to the smlight ethernet radio also I started out with ZHA but everyone told me to switch to Z2M but I switched back to ZHA because half of my devices weren't compatible with Z2M.

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No issues for me with SONOFF Dongle Plus MG24. The following things I had to fiddle with: \- use a USB extension cable to move the dongle away from my RPi4 and use USB2 port \- AQARA opening sensors don't like the dongle, but if I pair using AQARA Smart Plug, everything works (just go to ZigBee details of smart plug, hamburger menu next to "Reconfigure" button and "Add devices via this device") \- make sure there are enough (mains powered) routers, such as smart plugs or bulbs (that are powered, no need to keep them on via software), verify network via "View map"

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An alternative tilt sensor (Zigbee) you may want to try is the one by ThirdReality. The upside is that they seem to work rock-solid; the downside is that they don't report (at least over ZHA) the *angle* of the tilt; just "opened" (tilted) or "closed" (not tilted). Also, I'd avoid myQ like a used Kleenex in a TB ward. 😝

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… Assistant release (if known): Unkown Operating environment (Hass.io/Docker/Windows/etc.): Docker Integration: Homekit Description of problem: I've got a Zigbee RGB+W bulb which I've setup with HA and exposed to HomeKit using the HA Homekit component. The bulb works perfectly when adjusting parameters from the HA UI where adjusting the colour wheel changes the RGB value and moving the colour temperature slide changes the colour to white and adjusts the tempearture. However, in the Home app there seems to be some really odd behaviour occurring when setting up and using the light's 6 palette …

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The problem Innr RC250 is reported as compatible with Home Assistant, but no button is recognized as triggers (for Automation). https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b876521f-87fa-4e66-81e4-b321807ec3d9 ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? 2025.11.3 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant OS ### Integration causing the issue ZHA ### Link to integration documentation on our website https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/ ### Diagnostics information …

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The problem Couple words about about my system: Home Assistant Yellow hub manages 12 Zigbee devices, 3 of them are Keen Smart Vents, Z-wave lock through Zooz 800 USB controller, integration with Lutron hub for lights, integration with Apple HomeKit with homepod mini speakers for voice controls. After HA core update to 2025.4.1 I noticed HA automation controlling Keen vent closing/opening stopped working; HA app shows vent control is greyed out with a notice "...entity no longer provided by zha integration...". However, vent's temperature, pressure, battery level readings are provided …

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… any channel overlapping too. I have tons of ZigBee devices - and experience no dropouts or needing to repair. It works exactly as it should...unless a sensor battery runs out...but that's part of life.

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This may be your problem. My sengled bulbs would constantly just randomly drop off the network. Tried different coordinators, channels, zha, z2m all with the same result. Switched to hue and the problems went away

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I would definitely go this route. I bought a few Sonoff temp/humidity and door sensors and have tons of issues with them. The Aqara Door sensor I bought has been rock solid for a month with no issues.

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The problem With a ConBee II Zigbee stick and firmware `0x264a0700`, my TP-Link CS100 Door/Window sensors have operated properly for over a year. As of Home Assistant 2022.08.x, that ConBee II firmware generates a ZHA error of `Writing network frame counter is not supported with this firmware`, and none of my Zigbee devices respond to controls or send sensor updates. Thus a firmware update seems necessary. I updated my ConBee II to firmware `0x26780700` (and had to rebuild my Zigbee network), and now all my devices EXCEPT the CS100 devices work properly. The CS100 devices should have IasZone …

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