deCONZ/Conbee II stick on separate Raspberry Pi

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Currently I’m using some Sonoff Zigbee Bridges (with the Tasmota firmware) to connect to my Zigbee devices (bridges are using MQTT to connect to Homeassistant). I would like to use some Zigbee devices outdoors as well, and to cut a long story short: the Sonoff bridge is not a good match because the wifi and zigbee parts in the same case and I’d like to put a cable between them (so I can keep the wifi part indoors, but have the Zigbee antenna/module outdoors). Hope this diagram makes it clear:

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I’m reading good things about the Conbee II USB Gateway. So my question is: is it possible to have a Raspberry Pi + Conbee II gateway, integrated with my Homeassistant (which is running on another Raspberry Pi)? Can I use the deCONZ integration for that, or does that integration requires that the Conbee II gateway is plugged in directly in the Raspberry Pi that’s running Home Assistant?

Thanks!

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The Conbee stick / Phoscon software can be installed on any computer on your network. It does not have to be on your HA instance.

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As Francis already says this works perfectly fine. I wrote a detailed guide how I did exactly that (conbee on a separate Pi) here in my repo.

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Cool, that seems to be very similar to what I’m doing!! Thanks for sharing!!
In your GitHub repo your write “The ZigBee stick communicates through a websocket connection”, is it the deCONZ integration that takes care of that? Or did you need to run something else (additional) on the Raspberry Pi that has the Conbee stick?

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Nothing additional needed, deconz handles this. Just wanted to point out in my docu how it communicates with Home Assistant.

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Soon Conbee stick would be usable with Zigbee2mqtt and you could run that and publish things back to your main Home Assistant using MQTT


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I read somewhere that this is already possible. However I still prefer deconz, mainly for the ability of smoothly dimming lights on a button press and stop dimming on release of a button, which ZHA and zigbee2mqtt can only do with workarounds (sending a service to increasw brightness every x ms).

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Awesome work @Burningstone
I was not able to install the docker on my rasbian with the ConBee II USB-stick.
I upgraded and updated my raspbian before trying but it says:
“This Linux distribution (raspbian stretch) reached end-of-life and is no longer supported by this script.”
Is there some other newer docker I can install or should reinstall my Raspberry Pi with some other raspbian version?

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Which script are you talking about?

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@Burningstone Thank you for getting back to me.
I talk about the segment about:

Setup ZigBee Hub (ConBee II)
The commands for installing Docker and Docker-compose.

But I worked that one out, I needed a newer clean install of Raspberry Pi OS.

But then I got to a new problem:

Create docker-compose.yml file and directory deconz to store the config:
Create docker-compose.yml file:

Where should I create the directory to store docker-compsose.yml in?
Maybe I’m dumb here, but Linux isn’t my best subject so this was confusing for me.

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In the home directory of the user. You can also use subfolders etc…

E.g. I have this structure:

/home/burningstone/docker is the “base” directory and in this directory is the docker-compose.yml file and a subfolder deconz

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