How to link a Hassio VM to a RPi controlling just my Zwave and Zigbee dongles?

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Hi all,

I currently have my Hassio installation installed on a RPi4 but but after another SD crash (which I was able to recover this time!) I have decided to move my installation to my always on Media Server in an outbuilding away from the house.

I’ve successfully installed Hassio on Oracle VMBox and loaded a current RPi4 Hassio backup and it all works fine, except for my Zigbee and Zwave devices connected via an Aeotec Zwave and Conbee II dongles.

I want to create a second slave instance of Hassio on my old RPi3b in my house and have the Zigbee and Zwave dongles plugged in.

I want the slave to be a ghost device in that I just want it to detect the devices and then I can just see and control my devices as if they were connected to the master.

Will MQTT_Eventstream achieve this? I have read a lot about doing this with Zwave but not both Zwave and Zigbee and also read that you can’t control devices with this method, just see the devices in the master.

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Note: Hass.io is how you installed Home Assistant

If you’re using the deconz integration then that should work without anything special to do.

For Z-Wave, I’d look at running zwave2mqtt (there’s an add-on) with MQTT discovery configured on the primary Home Assistant install.

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If you’re using the deconz integration then that should work without anything special to do.

Do I stream the Deconz sensors etc via MQTT to the Master?

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No, it has it’s own protocol.

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How do I present the DeConz sensors from the RPi Slave on the VM Master

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  1. Install deCONZ on the remote system
  2. Configure deCONZ on the main system
  3. Read the deCONZ docs :wink:
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  1. Install deCONZ on the remote system
  2. Configure deCONZ on the main system
  3. Read the deCONZ docs :wink:

Thank you for this! That made it so easy!

I just have to focus on Zwave now!! Looking into Zwave2mqtt now

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You could also use Zwave2Mqtt/Zwave2Zigbee on RPi + MQTT Broker on your hass.io.
So all devices connect to your RPi and will be adressed by Mqtt from Hass.io
Useful:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/rpi-as-z-wave-zigbee-over-ip-server-for-hass/23006/88?u=autox

Useful:

https://selfhostedhome.com/migrating-to-zwave2mqtt-for-home-assistant/