Does home assistant support zigbee shepherd?

Third party integrations
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I just noticed that Xiaomi zigbee devices can be flashed with zigbee-shepherd firmware (please see link below). Which in theory allow to use Xiaomi Zigbee sensors and switches without Xiaomi’s gateway. I am wondering whether flashed xiaomi devices can be integrated into home assistant (preferably hassio)

2

I think the best way to use this would be via the MQTT bridge the author has supplied. That should work fine with HA.

3

I’m working on a zigbee2mqtt bridge which integrates especially well with home assistant. This bridge currently supports TRADFRI, Hue and Xiaomi devices. https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt

4

Hi @Koenkk! Nice project you are working on! My question to you would be - does this component work with Hassio?

5

This is not a ‘component’ for home assistant but rather something seperate (which can run on a Raspberry Pi for example). To give an idea how this is working: https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/blob/master/architecture.png

6

So in this scenario I would need 2 separate Raspberry PI - 1x for Hassion and another one for running zigbee2mqtt ? :slight_smile:

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You can run them on the same Pi. Hass.io uses docker, I’m working on a docker image for zigbee2mqtt.