Disabling the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 integration?

Configuration Zigbee
1

this might sound like a really dumb question, but I’m looking for a serious answer.

I’m using the zbt 1 dongle and zha. what actually happens if I disable the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 integration?

I don’t just mean something like “your zigbee won’t work”, what will happen in a technical sense, what error messages can I expect to see and how will this effect the was that ha runs?

my original ha install didn’t have this, I think that it showed up after an update.

I’m trying to better understand how ha manages zigbee devices as part of a troubleshooting process.

I’m also tied to zha as my lux and motion sensors only run properly on it. so I’m only really interested in how it interact with zha.

2

Documentation says “The Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 integration provides hardware information for the hardware configuration page.”

Currently it exposes an update.xxx entity which can be used inside HA.

Disabling the integration won’t stop Zigbee working.

3

I was wondering if there was anything else beyond this, it seems overkill to do an integration just for that.

4

if you want to know more about how HA handles Zigbee on lower level have a look at GitHub - zigpy/zigpy: Library implementing a Zigbee stack which is used in ZHA integration

5

I’m probably not ready for that yet, but it’s on me radar.

6

I think of this way… Integrations such as the one for SkyConnect/ZBT-1, ZBT-2 and other devices like it, is that it makes it easier for the user to get their HA system setup to use and manage in regards to the device: such as auto-magically downloading AddOn/Apps and configuring the AddOn/App to use the device; If one wants to repurpose say the ZBT-1 from ZigBee to Thread (and vice-versa), the integration will help out; do things like firmware upgrades for the device as well.

Otherwise, one can disable the integration, and manually setup and manage things themselves.