Conbee on same pi as Hass.io?

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi, I’m running hass.io on a pi3b,
I have a conbee ZigBee usb dongle on its way.
I’ve been looking through all the deconz pages and can’t find an answer to the simplest part.
Do I plug it into the pi, or does it just need power and connect to wifi?
Or do I need to set it up on another separate pi?
How do I tell ha where to find it?

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You’ll connect it to the Pi.

How you tell HA about it depends on whether you’re using deconz or zha.

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I was looking to use deconz

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A wise choice :slight_smile: It never ceases to amaze me just how awesome Deconz is compared to just about any other free IoT radio integration layer, it is absolutely “set and forget”.

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thanks guys.
i like the graphical way you can set scenes in phoscon,
can these scenes be called from hass.io and also used as triggers for automations etc?

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Check the docs, there are written for a reason :wink:

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There’s only a single paragraph on scenes and it doesn’t say much at all.

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so, i have my conbee installed and phoscon linked to hass. It took about 5 minutes to set up.
I have now moved all my lights over to phoscon rather than using the ikea tradfri hub and software.
The lights, switches and any scenes i have made in phoscon are now all available in hass.
So easy and rock solid. The scene editor and remote editor in phoscon is great.
With the ikea hub i had to manually add each light one at a time, with phoscon you just tell it to look for lights for 10 minutes, then reset all the lights and they appear. Amazing

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I know, right? I unfortunately still own ~40 ZWave devices accumulated in 2 years and would not like the expense of replacing them all with Zigbee stuff, but after starting to use Deconz 7 months ago, I would never recommend anyone touch ZWave ever again :smiley:

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The mesh network is so solid

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Hi All,

I am getting this error & I am unable to open the web Ui, when trying to set up my new Conbee II, do I need to do something with my Rassberry Pi?

18:50:56:425 Current channel 15
18:50:56:429 Device TTL 4914 s flags: 0x7
18:51:56:432 Current channel 15
18:51:56:441 Device TTL 4853 s flags: 0x7
18:52:56:432 Current channel 15
18:52:56:441 Device TTL 4793 s flags: 0x7
18:53:56:432 Current channel 15
18:53:56:441 Device TTL 4733 s flags: 0x7
18:53:57:842 discovery network reply error: Error transferring http://dresden-light.appspot.com/discover - server replied: Service Unavailable
18:54:02:915 send permit join, duration: 0
18:54:15:952 dev /dev/ttyAMA0
18:54:15:953 GW firmware version: 0x264a0700
18:54:15:953 GW firmware version is up to date: 0x264a0700

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Hi to All,
I’m using HA (HassIO v0.88.2) for about 1 year and like it very much.
Now I’m planning to use Zigbee Devices using Conbee II Stick, together with Home Assistant.
I found Installation hints, where the Conbee Stick is directly connected to a USB Port at the RasPi with HassIO.

My HA is installed on a Pi 3B+ which is mounted in a room where it might be difficult to reach all (planned) zigbee devices.
So, I would like to install the Conbee/deConz on a separate Pi, which can be moved to a better location in the house.
Sorry I’m a ZigBee “NewBee”, so the question is:
Can this work and if so: How is it done and are there any known disadvantages?

Thx in advance!