Modern Guide to Thread on a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus V2

Do you have other tbr at your home, from apple, amazon or google?

I just ordered a SMHUB for OTBR testing because i hope to get better results with an external gateway.
I run HA in Proxmox, moving my Zigbee network from the Sonoff stick to a SLZB-06M did help in the past.

he official sonoff flasher supposed to be the solution but the issue with the driver is still there. After two hours I found a reddit post
see here
https://www.reddit.com/r/ZigBee/comments/zc1f98/help_with_sonoff_zbdonglee_driver_problem_this/
which is pointing here

where is lying the correct driver for the case!

Thanks to orignal poster of reddit named ā€œpatgeoā€

same here! @raykholo you are a star!!

@raykholo have you by any chance faced the error "Thread network credentials does not match with any of the active thread networks aroundā€ when attempting to install the network key into an iPhone?

I can’t complete that part, and without that I can’t onboard devices onto the new network. I posted an ask for help here and here.

I would appreciate it if you could give me a hand!

Thank you for the pleasant responses from those my guide has helped.

Unfortunately I do not have any other help to offer for the ā€œrecentā€ follow up questions. I do not use any 3rd party Matter/ Thread devices as of yet. The whole point of doing this last year was to get an ESP32-C6 to connect to Thread, and as a quick proof of concept, I enabled the RGB LED on it and had it show up/ played with it in HA.

Today, I updated HA and all relevant integrations/ apps including: Matter, OTBR, and ESPHome Builder. My ESP32-C6 with RGB LED still works.

My limited research suggests that using iOS devices to connect a 3rd party Thread device to your HA OTBR remains a finicky process

ā€œand the fundamental problem is that Apple’s Thread credential management in iOS is opaque, with no user-facing way to inspect or purge stale entries from the keychain.ā€

@kitus you received a response here, I hope it helps you: Thread Border Router (ZBT-2) and iOS: "Thread network credentials does not match with any of the active thread networks around" - #10 by wmaker

I’d like to draw some attention to the small icon on the ā€œPreferred Networkā€ screen:


If it is missing, these steps for Sync Thread credentials must be repeated quite often. The icon is brought up via the three-dot menu ā€œUsed for Android + iOS credentialsā€.