Searching for a good Zigbee-Bridge (PoE)

Dear freands,

I am searching for a while after a good, HA compatible MATTER / MQTT Zigbee-Bridge. I found a very well explored website (Supported Adapters | Zigbee2MQTT) but it is difficult: The most devices of my selection are:

a. very expensive (+ customs fees)
b. not available at the moment
c. “handmade”

I’m just looking for a gypsy bridge that I can screw to the wall next to my wifi access point (preferably with antenna because big house) and plug into my network socket (PoE).

Or as an emergency solution just a standalone bridge with power supply that I can then plug via LAN cable to the network. Probably this would still be necessary if I want to expand to basements and other floors (unless the repeater function really works reliably even through German concrete ceilings).

Even devices like “Samsung Aeotec Smart Home Hub” does not seem to be able to plug directly into the LAN.

If you have a tip, please share it with me. It doesn’t have to be a Porsche as a solution, but it can be an Audi :slight_smile:

The primary goal would be to connect door and window sensors in a first step. In a second step, motion sensors. (And then of course to integrate everything in Homeassistant!) If you also have good tips on this regarding models and sources of supply: Very happy with it, buying advice is gladly accepted.

Thank you very much and have a nice evening, Franz

PS: No, not a stick or anything like that! My HA runs on a Raspberry Pi in the tech basement. I need a “separate device” which I would place on the 1st floor.

I run this.

Works very well.

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Dear Juan,
first of all: Thx a lot!

Please don’t get me wrong as a beginner: but this product again looks very “home-made”. I’m just surprised that there isn’t a big market for it and that big, established manufacturers (Unifi, Cisco, …) also have an offer here.

Do you still have a tip, where there is the housing for it? On the page you specified, I find only the reference that it is not included… in the pulldown when ordering I can only choose whether with or without antenna.

Best thanks, Franz

I use this one for my production site. It works flawlessly. Yeah, it costs some money, but you have to choose.

Cheap will never get really good and good will never get really cheap.

The money pushed in to this one got the effort, I wanted. No any panic phone-call from the site users since the day, it is installed.

It does all, you asked - Matter, Zigbee, Homekit and POE.

https://www.ubisys.de/en/products/gateway-g1/