Getting started with Zigbee and Home Assistant Yellow

Configuration Zigbee
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I’ve had Home Assistant Yellow for over 1.5 years and have never tried Zigbee. I received some Zigbee bulbs today.

My understanding is that Home Assistant Yellow has Zigbee built in. Is that just the radio, or do I also need a hub? The radio appears to be on and working, but not sure what I need to do to add a bulb?

I get a bulb running and it flashes, telling me it’s ready to pair, but nothing shows up when I search for Zigbee devices.

I think I’m missing a step or something.

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No, you should already have everything you need.

I’m assuming you’ve got the ZHA integration installed, so follow the instructions here for setup & pairing Zigbee Home Automation - Home Assistant

If you’ve done all the above & your bulbs are still not being detected, maybe they might be unsupported in ZHA. What model are they?

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The link you provided was the instructions I was using. They are Innr, AE 287 C.

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I have Zigbee Home Automation installed. Inside that, it shows 2 hubs: a Generic Zigbee Coordinator (EZSP) and a Silicon Labs EZSP, which is a radio I installed previously when I was unaware Yellow had one built in. It is currently disabled.

Under Device Info for the Generic, it shows:

Connected via Generic Zigbee Coordinator (EZSP)
Zigbee: [ hex #s ]
Zigbee info:
Nwk: 0x0000
Device Type: Coordinator
LQI: 255
RSSI: Unknown
Last seen: 2025-12-18…
Power source: Mains

Under Network, it shows

ZHA status: online
2 devices (1 offline)

Network settings

0E29
PAN ID

[ hex #s ]
Extended PAN ID

25
Channel

[ hex #s ]
Coordinator EEE

ezsp
Radio type

/dev/serial/by-id/usb-ITead_Sonoff_Zigbee_3.0_USB_Dongle_Plus_f61125f6a239ef119ab05bf454516304-if00-port0
Serial point

115200
Baud rate

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Let me guess, your old zigbee coordinator was a Sonoff dongle?

ZHA has no idea you’re trying to switch to the internal radio - it’s still referencing the old dongle:

You can only have one coordinator per zigbee integration, and your ZHA install still thinks you’re using the old one.
Change the config of ZHA to point to the internal Yellow radio (you should be able to find it under Settings > System > Hardware > All hardware).
You might have to delete the entire integration, do a restart, then add it back again to be able to use the internal radio.

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Deleting the integration appears to be the solution. Nothing showed up when I searched All Hardware for zha, zigbee, radio, ezsp… So I deleted the Sonoff device. When I did that, the information under the Zigbee integration changed, showing Yellow as the hub. Now the bulb is showing up. Thank you!

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Was it related to the latest updates in HomeAssistant?