Flash my Zigbee Bridge-P or go for a Zigbee dongle?

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Dear all,

I’m just starting in the domotic so here is my first question to the community :slight_smile:

I installed HA on a raspberry and I also bought a ZB bridge-p before I discover it cannot work with HA (expect if I flash it).

I’m not really geek so I think I should go for a Zigbee dongle rather than flashing my ZB-p. Although it can be fun to try :slight_smile:

Does anyone have arguments to go for one or the other ?

Thank you in advance, I hope one day I will be the one answering questions (I wish xD).

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Hi,
There is a lot of information on this forum, so I’d suggest using search first.

The Sonoff ZB Bridge-P has specific warnings:

The previous Sonoff ZBridge was so bad, I used a hammer - not joking! :boom: :hammer::

They can be reflashed to become a reasonable Zigbee repeater.

If this helps, :heart: this post!

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Hi James,

thank you very much for your answer. I’ll try to make better use of the search engine next time.

I’ve been into your links and I have now no doubt that I should go for a dongle.

I may later try to the reflash my bridge into a repeater. When I will know why I should need it xD ! I’m going step by step.

Thank you again !

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