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February 19, 2024, 7:02am
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Basically yes, you will have a very bad experince of Zigbee if you only add battery powered devices, but that is by design, which is why you should try to understand how Zigbee is meant to work before begin to buy devices, so recommend that you read these to start over again:
Don’t forget that the first post in a community guide is a wiki - feel free to add to it or correct it.
This guide was written with reference to:
Core 2023.11.3
Supervisor 2023.11.6
Operating System 11.2
Frontend 20231030.2
Summary
This post is aimed at newcomers to Zigbee - and possibly to Home Assistant - who have stumbled into the wild west of Zigbee devices and manufacturers. It does not recommend particular products; instead it advocates a cautious approach to buying. When it comes t…
Who is this guide for?
I have tried to make this guide to be a comprehensive collection of the most basic yet essential tips with a set of actions and best practice steps that should be applicable to all types of Zigbee setups, regardless of what type of Zigbee adapter/gateway/hub/bridge/devices that you are using, however, it has been written with a point-of-view in mind of Zigbee solutions that use a Zigbee Coordinator adapter locally via USB dongle/stick or remotely using a serial server ove…
Don’t forget that the first post in a community guide is a wiki - feel free to add to it or correct it.
This guide was written with reference to:
Core 2023.12.3
Supervisor 2023.11.6
Operating System 11.2
Frontend 20231208.2
Some subjects come up quite a lot...
That map
[That map...]
The ZHA “network visualisation” was originally a dashboard card. It was absorbed into ZHA and the card is now deprecated, but the repository is still on Github .
The lines on the map show every route between …