Hi guys,
I would like to manage a zigbee led stripe, to be able to do this I guess I need a zigbee dongle.
Is there anyone running HA on raspberry pi with a Zigbee dongle? If so can you advise a dongle for raspberry pi and HA? One that can be easy installed and managed with good range? Thank you all guys
I would suggest a ethernet based coordinator like the SLZBs.
thats a really good Idea with ethernet based one, so I can even place it in a better position at home. Is a SLZB device als easy to install on HA und easy to mange / add zigbee devices to HA over SLZB?
I would say so. There’s plenty of guides on the topic should you need that.
Btw, found this: Zigbee Home Automation - Home Assistant
Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2
Seems to be interesting as well, when I ream amazon posts, looks like it ease very easy to install and has an awesome range compare to other zigbee dognles .
That will also work good. Since you haven’t specified what Pi you have, remember the hardware requirements: Raspberry Pi - Home Assistant
Personally I would try to skip using a SD-card for storage.
I have pi5
Also take into account that a raspberry pi5 can only supply 1600ma shared across all 4 usb ports. No idea how much current the suggested devices may consume.
They are ethernet based, so none (on the Pi) 
If there is a brand-name zigbee led-stripe for you, it might belong with a brand-name zigbee to wifi “multimode gateway”. That is, your raspberry pi has wifi to your home internet gateway hub thingy, which has wifi to a seperate box which has short range zigbee local connections which had (laboriously) been paired to it using a brand-name app on a smart phone. I have a 2x2 inch square from Tuya, without which their zigbee temperature humidity probe never pairs to the brand-name app “tuya” on my smart phone, which links those zigbee devices to tuya-cloud, which is usually visible to the Home Assistant Add-on Tuya Integration. Doesn’t that seem like a lot of links which might fail between a temperature and Home Assistant on my raspberry pi?
Reliability got worse since July, so I now have to leave an automation to “Reload” the tuya integration if it hasn’t heard from any of its zigbee devices for a while. That goes on average a couple of times a week at present.
Beware; there are a whole lot of slightly cheaper two inch square boxes on ebay which won’t find both wifi and zigbee and the vendors are rubbish; often copying a description of whatever sells; some of them have no idea what their gadget-boxes do. If you find a more direct way to see your zigbee devices at home then please say so.
I prefer to use the gpio of a raspberry pi to switch a wired LED directly or a wired transistor to switch a bigger group of LED, with less networking vulnerabilities through other peoples’ stuff. The ansi C program to do that (once gpio is enabled) is one page and you get two wires 3.3 Volts 10mA rated, so plenty to switch a suitable transistor to run an LED stripe off some external power supply with common ground to the pi. That isn’t zigbee.
You probably didn’t mean to reply to me, but this was confusing. Zigbee does not need any wifi cloud gateway - it needs a coordinator, that’s it.
Please elaborate. If I can get rid of my unreliable zigbee multimode hub with cloud connected hindrances then I should.
This should be a good start Getting started | Zigbee2MQTT
Look through this too Supported Adapters | Zigbee2MQTT