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fievel @lemm.ee

Dongle recomendations

I want to get started with home automation, probably based on a raspberry pi (or as of now with my banana pi which is my home server) and either openHAB or home assistant. My goal is, first, to put some temperature/humidity sensors in varous rooms and leak detector in my basement where I had some issues with the main drain. I wonder if you have some recomendations for a usb dongle for zigbee and/or z-wave compatible with linux, not too expensive but good enough if I want to extend the network later. I read about SONOFF-ZB USB Dongle Plus Zigbee 3.0 available on Chinese websites. What do you think?

3 comments

  • Just recently got the SONOFF-ZB Plus E dongle and it's been working well for me. I was able to flash it to use both ZigBee and Thread.

  • I am running Aotect Zi-Stick (ZGA008), but I would probably go with Sonoff ZBDongle-E, which is based the same EFR32MG21 chip, but has external antenna.

    I recommend to use #Zigbee2MQTT because it's decoupled from home automation software:

    ability to switch software in future without repairing all devices in different software,
    no duplication of efforts to add device support in multiple softwares,
    ability to run (or evaluate) different software in parallel against the same Zigbee network.