SkyConnect and Proxmox 8 (Device Mapping)

Unless you are looking to always also migrate your Zigbee network back and forth between the two SkyConnect devices when you migrate VMs between hosts it won’t work the way you may have imagined it. Functions of your Zigbee network are tied to the individual controller. It’s a bit different from, say, Wi-Fi where it doesn’t really matter what radio you use as long as your network settings are right.

What I did to support live migrations of VMs was to user ser2net to bridge my USB Zigbee stick through an Ethernet network from an old Raspberry Pi I had laying around. For me it had the added benefit that I could place it closer to a central location in my house, as now I only needed Ethernet to be available there and having everything else remain in the rack in the basement.

See: Connecting to a remote Zigbee coordinator with ZHA using ser2net

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