Moving physical dongle (Sonoff ZBDongle-E) from USB port to a Homeseer Z-Net box

Configuration Zigbee
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I’m looking to migrate (physically move) my Zigbee dongle (Sonoff ZBDongle-E) from my NUC to a Homeseer Z-Net box (which will also manage my Z-Wave network). I’m doing this mainly because I would like to be able to locate the Zigbee dongle in a better centralized location in my home, rather than in the basement where it is now. But I also like the idea of separating the HA instance from the Zigbee coordinator to pave the path for easier future virtualization.

I looked around, but didn’t find any articles detailing this exactly – I’m NOT moving my Zigbee network to another dongle (migrate radio) – I just want to move the dongle itself to another location. Right now it’s sitting on this “serial port”:
/dev/serial/by-id/usb-ITEAD_SONOFF_Zigbee_3.0_USB_Dongle_Plus_V2_20220815190320-if00
And it would need to move to a TCP serial port – per instructions here:
Z-NET Integration with Home Assistant (homeseer.com)

I would like to avoid rebuilding the entire network – so is there somewhere where I could change the connection string once the dongle is plugged in to the Z-Net? I couldn’t find a way to do that through the ZHA configuration.

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Assuming it is basically ser2net or similar under the covers, all you really need to do is change the port. Unfortunately, it is over complicated due to config flow.

ZHA →
Migrate Radio →
Confirm Stopping ZHA →
Reconfigure Current Radio →
Enter Manually →
Choose EZSP as radio type →
enter “tcp://…” as serial path →
Choose “Keep radio network settings” →
Finish

This would be sooooooo much easier if we could just edit one line of yaml.

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Awesome! That worked!
Yeah – I was looking to change that one line, but couldn’t figure out how.