Migrating from rPi to Synology VM. How can I use my rPi zigbee HAT?

Hardware
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Hi all. I’ve been running HAOS on an old rPi 3 b for a while but I am migrating it to a VM on my Synology NAS. Unfortunately, the zigbee HAT I’ve been using on the rPi obviously can’t work on the new instance since it’s not USB. Any suggestions on what I can do to maybe turn the rPi into something that acts as the zigbee hub still but through ethernet to the HA VM on the NAS?

Hope that’s clear! Thanks!

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You could run zigbee2mqtt on it.
https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/advanced/remote-adapter/connect_to_a_remote_adapter.html

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re zigbee2mqtt: Run that (add-on for HA I assume) on the HA VM and then point at the rPi? Sorry, new to this part of the HA world.

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Yes this how it should work.
You could also install z2m on the rPi connect them both to the mqtt broker.

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Awesome! I’ll give it a try. Thank ya.