Help with zigbee hardware recognition

[RonnieLast (Last of the Ronnies)]

@daf

If not - is it possible to install my zigbee dongle on a raspberry pi, but keep my HA on my microserver and have them linked somehow?

Yes, for sure. I just implemented this over the weekend and it’s working well for me:

Connecting to a remote Zigbee coordinator with ZHA using ser2net

This is a quick guide on how to connect ZHA to a Zigbee coordinator on different hardware than the hardware HomeAssistant is running on. Reasons for wanting to do this could include: HomeAssistant running on hardware in a bad location in your house Needing to use ZHA over Z2M Long USB cords causing instability in Zigbee network You will need another computer running Linux. A Raspberry Pi would work fine. I am using some really old Optiplex SFF running Debian. On the linux computer, run apt…