Share Zigbee devices with 2 Pis

Hi All
I have 2 raspberry pis running Home assistant one live and the other for testing, up and till now I have been able to test autonomations , scripts as all have my device have been wi-fi , But I have purchased some Zigbee devices that are connected to my live Pi with a USB sonoff gateway , is there anyway to share the Zigbee devices with the test Pi
Thanks

You can only do that by running something like zigbee2mqtt.

Using the built-in ZHA integration doesn’t make that possible

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Zigbee devices can only connect to a single Zigbee Coordinator, so you can not share them at the Zigbee level, (that is one of the main major limitations of the current standard Zigbee specifications).

You could instead maybe share them at the application level (e.i. Home Assistant acting as server and client) via HomeKit and/or via MQTT as Home Assistant can act as a server and client for HomeKit and/or MQTT, (plus in the future Home Assistant will also be able to act as a Matter/CHIP standard client and server). See the different HomeKit integrations and/or via MQTT integrations + Moqsuitto Broker add-on if do not have separate installation of Moqsuitto Broker:

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#search/homekit

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#search/mqtt

thanks for the response

thanks something else to go on the list