HA doesn't show Sonoff USB device

Configuration Zigbee
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I aim to install a USB dongle running as a Proxmox VM in HA.
I went through the first step and I see the USB dongle as a device on one of my VMs, however, I’m not able to establish the Sonoff ZB Dongle hardware ID in HA (Settings>System>Hardware).
None of the enumerated USB device IDs has the Sonoff-like details.

What am I doing wrong?
Is there any way to force HA to re-detect the ZB Dongle or a way to get the Sonoff Dongle hardware ID by grepping files?

Please let me know the next step.

M.

2

You need to specifiy the USB port either in the ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT config, depending on which of the 2 you are planning to use. In the Z2M add-on config it looks like this:

Z2M-2
Z2M-21066×784 42.6 KB

In Proxmox you need to add the USB port to the HA VM:

proxmox-1
proxmox-11605×718 117 KB

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Hi,
This is exactly the way I configured it.
and I’m getting the ERR: MQTT : Connection refused: Not authorized
Can anyone help with this case?

PRXMX_CFG

CFG
CFG909×790 23.6 KB

6

Did you reboot the HA VM in Proxmox after you added the USB device in Proxmox? Restarting HA itself is not sufficient.

7

Hi,
Did anyone manage to solve this?
I have a similar problem, just instead of Proxmox I’m using VirtualBox. The dongle appears in the VM, but not in HA hardware list.

8

How did you pass it though ?

9

I just connected the dongle to a USB port, then added it to the VM in the settings dialog.
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10

Did you restart the VM after that ?

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Yes, first I restarted HA, then the VM, then the host machine. None of them worked.
I also tried exporting the VM to another host, but it was even worse. Not even VirtualBox could see the dongle on this other computer, so I moved everything back to the original one.

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Hi Wagner,

I had the similar issue. zigbee2mqqt was working fine in HA ( via virtualbox) for months, then it stopped at some point. In HA I couldn’t find a ttyUSB device in HA hardware, however, the Sonoff dongle showed in vbox.

When I removed the Sonoff usb device from the VM in vbox, it disappeared, and so I couldn’t re add it…

In the end I ended up upgrading vbox, and the extension pack. you might get away with just re installing vbox extension pack? After my vbox upgrades I was able to see the USB devices again, and add the Sonoff dongle back to my VM. After firing up my VM then being able to see / communicate with it in HA / zigbee2mqtt.