HUSBZB-1 zigbee/zwave setup in home assitant

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Hey Everyone!

I’m new to home assistant and still working threw all the learning curves of the system as well as the hardware its running on. but appreciate the help. Sorry if this is in the wrong section im pretty sure i must have configured something wrong but honestly not sure…

I seem to be having an issue getting the HUSBZB-1 Zwave/zigbee USB stick working correctly in home assistant. I’ve spent multiple days working threw multiple issues trying to get this thing to run correctly within in my setup. I’m running home assistant in docker ruining on a Synology DS1819+.

first problem started with getting the NAS to recognize the device, as it works serial over USB, and that isn’t exactly supported out of the box. so installed the drivers for that to work(Thanks jadahl) and now the NAS can see the USB and lists it under dsmsg. All is happy there.

Next, I was having an issue getting the NAS to recognize it as a USB peripheral and show it under /dev/tty to get the USB port it was under to config HA. a little cli fun and now its listed under the /dev/tty/ as usb0/usb1.

And all that brings me to the current issue that im unable to figure out. Hass.io lists both ports and the serial ports under host system hardware as the expected number. But when i go to add devices to the network the only return i get in the zigbee logs is:

[0x0000:zdo] ZDO request 0x0036: [60, <Bool.false: 0>]

I’m no expert on these networks and how to read the output logs, but i believe that says the hardware didn’t boot. but either way im unable to ad a device to it no matter what i do. I’ve tried multiple different switches, outlets, and alarm, fan controller. I cant get any of them to connect. I’ve tried changing the ports between the two, but doing that make it so HA cant see either.

I’m not one to ask questions, I prefer to learn and figure it out on my own. But im just stuck. I cant find anything on the forums or on google that i recent enough to help me figure this out.

Any help would be amazing. Thank you!

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Does any one has any input on this issue?

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Did you ever get this issue figured out? And if so, do you remember what you did?

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Nope! You can see by the comments how helpful everyone was.

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I also have been fighting this problem for days in a fresh hassio install with same stick on an Rpi. It will only detect 1 Sengled zigbee bulb when adding ZHA component, however when using "Add Device’, it only says the ZDO request line and nothing else. SmartThings picks up everything else fine every time I reset the other devices I’m trying to pair with HA. My Hubitat arrives today so I may see if it’s less fiddly than HA.

EDIT: More fiddling today, if I hard-power cycle (not just reboot) the Raspberry Pi, it will pick up one more new device per power-cycle. Quite tedious as I have 12 to pair in total…

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Wierd behavior for sure… I never had problems with my husbzb1 in ha. My configuration has the devices defined using ‘serial/by-id’ though. To do that, plug in the husbzb1 stick and type into the terminal:

ls -l /dev/serial/by-id/

You’ll see a list of your usb serial devices, including 2 for your zha and ozw controllers. For me these look like:

usb-Silicon_Labs_HubZ_Smart_Home_Controller_612011D2-if01-port0
usb-Silicon_Labs_HubZ_Smart_Home_Controller_612011D2-if00-port0

Copy and paste those addresses into your configuration.yaml. Mine (more or less) looks like this:

zha:
  usb_path: /dev/serial/by-id/usb-Silicon_Labs_HubZ_Smart_Home_Controller_612011D2-if01-port0
zwave:
  usb_path: /dev/serial/by-id/usb-Silicon_Labs_HubZ_Smart_Home_Controller_612011D2-if00-port0

Again, not 100% sure if this will fix your problem, but I have had zero issues and that’s how mine is setup (on a pi3b+, w/ hassos 3.10 + ha 0.105.4).

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FWIW, [0x0000:zdo] ZDO request 0x0036: [60, <Bool.false: 0>] is a good sign. I was running into some issues and wanted to help people who may also come across this thread.

I’m also troubleshooting and was on an older version of HA (102.1 IIRC) and just upgraded to the new version of HA and now have ZHA and HA working. There was something else going on as I didnt change anything except the version of HA and ZHA is now working with my conbee2.

Here is the new debug message on 108.x:

[0x0000:zdo] ZDO request ZDOCmd.Mgmt_Permit_Joining_req: [60, <Bool.false: 0>]

Notice it is nearly the same… now check out this link:

https://www.digi.com/resources/documentation/Digidocs/90002002/Reference/r_send_ZDO_cmds.htm?TocPath=API%20Operation|_____4

0x0036 is when you are trying to have new Zigbee devices added to the network - all good - so in my case it was something else and upgrading to the newest version of HA fixed my issues.

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Tried this on my vbox vm on a mac mini and got the error

Logger: homeassistant.components.zha
Source: helpers/config_validation.py:833
Integration: Zigbee Home Automation (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 10:32:31 AM (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 10:32:31 AM

The ‘usb_path’ option near /config/configuration.yaml:13 is deprecated, please remove it from your configuration

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The community can run hot and cold… on Zwave and Zigbee it seems to be totally cold

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OK after too much effort,(I know this is on old topic buts I am old too). I left configuration.yaml alone… deleted my attempts at z-wave and Zigbee and insteon. Pulled th dongles and HA discovered HUBZ for Smart home and Z-wave-JS. I reinstalled hose using the actual paths found in the all hardware (the 3 dot) menu under hardware. Zigbee is working like a champ, The z-wave remains marginal although I have gotten three sensor installed. Getting the rest of z-wave up is a nightmare