SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus Gateway, Universal Zigbee USB Gateway with Antenna for Home Assistant, IoBroker, Wireless Zigbee 3.0 USB Adapter(1 Pack)

As someone new to Home Assistant, I was initially worried about choosing the right device—but this turned out to be perfect. It integrates seamlessly with Home Assistant right out of the box. The external antenna might look bulky at first, but it’s surprisingly unobtrusive and works really well.

Great addition to my Home Assistant setup! Using this with a Home Assistant Green and Zigbee2MQTT and haven't had any issues so far. Took a bit to tinker with and setup, but after an hour or so of poking around github and guides, I was able to get it up and running with my system. Haven't had issues setting anything up, and had some pretty good range when adding my first couple Zigbee devices to the mesh.Can't get a better dongle for the price!

Works with Z2M and HA for an awesome low-power network. I'm using this with a mix of different brand sensors and controls and everything has been working perfectly. I had zero issues configuring everything and getting online. The connection is great to all of my devices spread around the house.

Plugged it into my server, passed it through to home assistant, and it worked immediately. Probably the hardest part of getting this working was setting up the USB passthrough.Something to keep in mind, this is super susceptible to interference. I had to put it on a usb extended and have it hang out on top of my desk to get it to work properly.

I needed a Zigbee hub and this one is highly recommended for Home Assistant. You just plug it in and it is auto detected and installed.. or at least that’s what is supposed to happen.I ordered this in ‘ok’ condition from Amazon Warehouse to save about $7. The device came in a plain box and looked brand new. Plugged it in.. was recognized by Home Assistant, but when I tried to install it that kept failing. The logs showed some config settings weren’t being applied properly.Did some research online and followed the steps to flash the latest version of firmware onto this device. It was a major pain to do this, but I finally got the new firmware installed. Plugged this into my Home Assistant PC and it was detected, then the installation worked no problems. Yay! Was able to pair some Zigbee devices with no issues either. Has been working well for a couple of weeks.So why didn’t it work right away? I think someone may have flashed it as a Zigbee router instead of a repeater. Or maybe someone else tried to flash it, and it only partially worked, leaving the device in a broken state. I figure they tried to get this working, failed, and then gave up and returned it to Amazon. And at Amazon they look at it and see it looks OK so just resell it as working. I doubt Amazon was able to test this before reselling it. If so they would have known it was broken…I’m glad I was able to fix it, but was it worth the $7 in savings? No way! It took me about 3 hours of hacking/troubleshooting to get this working. I was very pleased to get it fixed, but next time if it doesn’t work right away, I will return it and buy a brand-new one, which I’m confident would work right out of the box. The only reason I didn’t return this was because I really wanted to get this set up during the weekend and it would have been another 2 day wait to have Amazon ship me a new one.Lesson learned!

I bought this for home assistant running on a raspberry pi. Seamless install and works flawlessly.

So far working great. Zigbee2MQTT in Home Assistant.Haven't had it to long but so far all is good.

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