Hassio, Conbee, DeCONZ and Hyper-V advice required

Hello,
I am thinking about purchasing Conbee to control some IKEA lights (and possibly Xiaomi devices in the future). Here is how my current Hassio system is set up:

  • Windows Server 2008R2 host machine with Hyper-V running 24/7 (Conbee USB stick will be mounted here)
  • Hassio running in docker on Debian 9.5 client virtual machine (re-purposed pi-hole machine)

Could someone confirm if my understanding is correct?

  • WS2k8R2 Hyper-V does not support USB passthrough, so the Marthoc DeCONZ addon will not work
  • It should be possible to have Hassio on the VM communicate with a Windows DeCONZ installed on the host machine

Thanks for your help in advance!

I can’t give any good support in regards to your question. Just remember that the integration is a simple web socket so you could run conbee+deCONZ anywhere.

Thank you for your reply.
I guess the main issue is whether DeCONZ can run on Windows Server, as it is not listed on the Dresden site as a supported OS.

It can run in windows is all I know. You can possibly run the docker container on top of it

I have my setup running on Windows 10 with Hyper-V. Did you ever get this working?

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Yes, I had it working for a few months, but Hyper-V on WS2008R2 had limitations around USB passthrough, and WS2008R2 was approaching EOL. I have since moved on to Proxmox.

I have now the same setup but USB passthrough will not work with hyper-v, do not take time about that. I will self switch Hass to a standalone PC, thats the any option when you want to use Conbee with Hass.