I just received and launched Home Assistant Green.
I followed a tutorial to install Mosquitto and Zigbee2MQTT.
I use SkyConnect and flashed the latest firmware Zigbee (EZSP) 7.4.2.0 build 0.
First problem : in Home Assistant, when I try to see SkyConnect, it just says « unsupported_firmware ». I tried flashing it again : it goes fine apparently but the error stays the same.
Now, I had a working Zigbee2MQTT but with errors when starting. I deleted it and installed again.
Now, it won’t start at all with this error :
[2024-07-15 17:21:45] error: z2m: Error while starting zigbee-herdsman
[2024-07-15 17:21:45] error: z2m: Failed to start zigbee
[2024-07-15 17:21:45] error: z2m: Check https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/installation/20_zigbee2mqtt-fails-to-start.html for possible solutions
[2024-07-15 17:21:45] error: z2m: Exiting...
[2024-07-15 17:21:45] error: z2m: Error: Failed to start EZSP layer with status=HOST_FATAL_ERROR.
at EmberAdapter.initEzsp (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/adapter/ember/adapter/emberAdapter.ts:889:19)
at EmberAdapter.start (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/adapter/ember/adapter/emberAdapter.ts:2722:24)
at Controller.start (/app/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/controller/controller.ts:129:29)
at Zigbee.start (/app/lib/zigbee.ts:63:27)
at Controller.start (/app/lib/controller.ts:139:27)
at start (/app/index.js:154:5)
This is making me, like, super sad and frustrated. It’s supposed to be a “clean” install : those are just literally the first things I installed on this HA Green, and it’s already not working as intended.
HI newbie here and also having same problem with smlight slzb-07 with latest recommended fw (same as OP). Hope this is allowed to post here instead of creating a duplicate thread as the issues are related apart from mine is in minipc within proxmox.
anyway, the problem for me is I can’t find the path for usb.
hi all,
I am in the same boat as Newbie and also very new to HASS.
HS green
Sky Connect
I was using ZHA and was ok but couldnt find some devices so tried with Zigbee2mqtt and can not make it work.
Started with ezsp and changed to ember it progress furher hitting a problem
Thanks Francsip. No I am not. I am very new so not sure of much. I disable ZHA (or at least I think I did) before starting the Zigbee2MQTT.
After the ZBMQQ failed to start I had to enable ZHA to make it work.
But I will retry disabelling the ZHA again just in case
Incredibly interesting… describing my case just for everybody struggling with 502 error and not being able to start zigbee2mqtt:
I am using the mqtt broker thus initially I was not filling the config for mqtt. Wrong. You need to put into the config file:
server: mqtt://core-mosquitto
user: user
password: “password”
where user & password must match this in the mqtt broker.
you need to fill also the port / device:
port: /dev/ttyUSB0
adapter: ezsp
in my case USB port, but hey - can you see the device name? It is the EZSP - the one that was supposed to be replaced with “ember”… I have been sitting today for over 4 hours trying to start this bloody add-on and just last ry this evening and off it goes…
So keep trying ALL the options even if documentation says is not valid anymore…
Hi there everyone.
I am also an absolute beginner with HA. I have in the last week set up HA on a Green so based on a fresh install. I have added a few WiFi and Zigbee devices. Now I am trying to add a Vesternet 4 button Zigbee switch which seemingly is integrated through MQTT.
So I today installed the MOSQUITTO broker and I now have MQTT…?
Anyway, I am not able to get my switch to show up in MQTT. I have paired it to the Zigbee broker numerous times.
I am wondering if I am barking up the wrong tree, maybe I should not be Zigbee pairing?
Thanks for your response. I already have 14 ZigBee devices via ZHA without any issue. When I tried to add the Vesternet Zigbee 4 button device it did show up in ZHA, but without the interesting bits, button presses. I there googled and found that Vesternet Zigbee devices required MQTT. So i installed MQTT support in the form of Mosquitto.
However, i am totally at sea when it comes to how i pair/ join/ associate or whatever the switch with MQTT.
Can I have ZHA and MQTT running in parallel serving different devices?
As you can see, not at all clear what I need now (-:
Read my previous reply please. You need ZigBee2MQTT integration to do that.
For that to happen, you need to either remove your ZHA integration or else buy a separate ZigBee dongle just for the vesternet device. Note that if you have a single device on that network, it will be in its own mesh & can’t communicate with your other devices unless you move them over
Yep, the blueprint should fix it. Battery devices with a button don’t usually have an entity - they send events instead, and the blueprint handles that for you.
Side not - Just saw your earlier screenshot and noticed you have duplicate entities & logbook entries for the device. I suggest you fix that first before trying any blueprint, or you’ll get 2 events for each button press. Putting in a fresh battery might be a good idea too - 31% on a new device is a bit too low.
