ProxMox - Zigbee Coordinator

Installation
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Hello All,

hope you can help and thanks in advance.

I have the latest installation of home assistant on and old PC as a VM Proxmox device.

I have recently bought a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 dongle as I am adding zigbee devices at the rate of knots at the moment.

It wouldnt work or auto discover. So I have updated the fiirmware as per the adviice on the internet.

Still no joy.

I logged into the proxmox machine and looked at the USB configuration…

It looks like the sonoff zigbee coordinator has the same number as a D4Mini I use as a BLE hub,

Any solutions how I can renumber the Sonoff Dongle or the D4mini running ESPHome.

Or indeed if this is the problem.

hope I have explained enough. Thanks

Rob

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Show your proxmox usb settings for the HA VM

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Just passthrough the ports instead of the devices. It works much better and iam passtrough BT and Zigbee in parallel without any issue. PS: iam using and recommend zigbee2mqtt instead of ZHA. (Depending on the chipset). More stable and way better interface.

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How so? I’m using devices and working fine for me but easily swapped if there is a compelling reason.

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I will try this. Will I need to know which port is what number etc on this basis?

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Proxmox is showing you this in the UI. But you need to Check in the guest.

@rockets

Technically no real change but some devices have multiple IDs (the sonoff stick has a second bootloader, too) so you could upgrade the stick from the guest, too because you passthrough the whole USB port Independent from the device ID attached to it.

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