Initial setup of Sonoff ZBDongle-E with HA on Debian Linux

[builderOfTheWorlds]

Greetings,
I just received a ZBDongle-E from amazon and I’m attempting to set it up with my Homeassistant that I’m running on my debian server

I’ve plugged in the USB device and when I run # lsusb I see it listed as “Silicon Labs CP210x UART Bridge”

When I attempt to connect it to homeassistant, it can’t find the device, instead I get what looks like default values for connector serial ports (image below)

What steps should I take to get this connected and working?

[builderOfTheWorlds]

Figured it out, I was running homeassistant as a docker image, had to add the following to the config yaml file

devices:

• /dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0

Solution source here

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