Hedda
June 21, 2024, 6:46am
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You are not alonne to misunderstand this. I understand this can be confiaing because it can be changed to be a Zigbee Router instead of a Zigbee Coordinator but in Zigbee Router mode it does not send any traffic from the Zigbee radio chip over over the LAN/IP network, so you can never route Zigbee Router traffic over a LAN or WAN. So in Zigbee Router mode you basically fully disconnect the Zigbee radio chip and that works completly stand-alone from the ESP32 chip that is running the serial-over-IP proxy server software.
Zigbee Router communication will only ever work over Zigbee, you can never bridge that over LAN/IP. Again, check out these community guides before buying anything:
What is this post for?
More people are coming fresh to Home Assistant (and the Forum) after buying either a Yellow or a Green plus SkyConnect . When they want to add a few sensors, Zigbee seems the obvious choice - but it may not be the best option. Building a reliable Zigbee network can involve a considerable amount of time and expense, both of which may be unnecessary just to connect A to B.
This post is intended to clarify what Zigbee is good at… and what it does less well.
Zigbee is not wi…
Don’t forget that the first post in a community guide is a wiki - feel free to add to it or correct it.
This guide was written with reference to:
Core 2023.12.3
Supervisor 2023.11.6
Operating System 11.2
Frontend 20231208.2
Some subjects come up quite a lot...
That map
[That map...]
The ZHA “network visualisation” was originally a dashboard card. It was absorbed into ZHA and the card is now deprecated, but the repository is still on Github .
The lines on the map show every route between …
Don’t forget that the first post in a community guide is a wiki - feel free to add to it or correct it.
This guide was written with reference to:
Core 2023.11.3
Supervisor 2023.11.6
Operating System 11.2
Frontend 20231030.2
Summary
This post is aimed at newcomers to Zigbee - and possibly to Home Assistant - who have stumbled into the wild west of Zigbee devices and manufacturers. It does not recommend particular products; instead it advocates a cautious approach to buying. When it comes t…
Who is this guide for?
I have tried to make this guide to be a comprehensive collection of the most basic yet essential tips with a set of actions and best practice steps that should be applicable to all types of Zigbee setups, regardless of what type of Zigbee adapter/gateway/hub/bridge/devices that you are using.
This guide is meant for both those who are new to Zigbee as well as those who been using Zigbee devices for years but might not been aware of the underlying prerequisites to optimiz…
Don’t forget that the first post in a community guide is a wiki - feel free to add to it or correct it.
This guide was written and tested these versions but should also work similarly with later versions:
Home Assistant 2023.8.4
Supervisor 2023.09.2
Operating System 10.5
Frontend 20230911.0 - latest
Philips Hue Bridge using the Philips Hue integration for Home Assistant, but Philips/Signi…