Recommended Z-wave and Zigbee gateways

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Setup: HAOS running on Proxmox as a VM.

I’ve read through some of the devices that are available (e.g. Zigbee Coordinator, Zigbee USB sticks, Z-wave USB sticks, etc.) and trying to find out what’s the most current information on what’s recommended and personal experiences you can share for how to make this as easy as possible. I know that Zigbee can be unstable at times because of WiFi signals, so what I was thinking of is a Z-wave USB stick and maybe one of the Zigbee POE coordinators, but I don’t want to over complicate things. Any pointers to current products out there would be appreciated. P.S. I do have an Ikea Zigbee repeater that I used in a previous and different home automation system and that seemed to really help with Zigbee stability.

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Definitely go with a PoE connected Zigbee coordinator. This allows you to move it away from interference from USB3 ports and metal structures.

You can position it in the middle of your house for best coverage.

Connection is dead simple with zigbee2mqtt. No idea about ZHA as I’ve never used it.

I like tubes coordinators (https://tubeszb.com/) but there are others.

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Thank you, I will check them out. Do you have a guide you can point me to that explains how to set all this up within HA? Running HAOS on a VM in Proxmox.