Manual zigbee2mqtt connection

Configuration Zigbee
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Dear Community,

I searched google and this forum and all documentation I found is about you install zigbee2mqtt with homeassistand together.

What I have setup is, that I installed zigbee2mqtt manually on my raspberry pi sucuessfully and have all deviced connected. Also I installed mosquito manually on my raspi4. I cann connect with an mqtt explorer and see all devices and values.

I installed the mqtt device in home-assistant and activated in zigbee2mqtt “homeassitant: true”. But the devices are not found by homeassitant.

I am not working with the extension zigbee2mqtt. I anyway am not able to install any extension.

I use homeassitant from a docker container.

Do I have to manually connect it throught the configuration.yaml or can I tell homeassitant to search for the zigbee devices over mqtt?

Why didnt I use the documented way? I wanted to be independent from homeasistant as I also want to use the devices in my openhab installation. I try to get to know to homeassistant to understand if I can switch and how. Or use both and take the best from both worlds.

Alexander

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You have to check logs for z2m, mqtt and ha and post it here.
Did you set up mqtt integration in ha ?

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I run Zigbee2MQTT and mosquitto on another computer with no problems. The only thing you have to do is configure the mqtt integration correct, and make sure both Zigbee2MQTT and HA can connect to mosquitto.

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Ok thx for your answers. I reviewed the conf-files and I had a wrong url propagatewd ad configuration_url. I corrected that and now the devices are visible in homeassistant. Thx.