SONOFF Hydro ONE Zigbee + BLE

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OK I don’t have any Sonoff devices yet and no other Zigbee devices but I want to set up some garden watering automation this summer and saw this pre-order and placed an order for two.

I have many Z-Wave devices and a couple of BLE devices already.

I have a Home Assistant Yellow so Zigbee should be ready to go but this needs to go far from where HA server sits so I also ordered SONOFF Dongle Max Zigbee/Thread PoE Dongle to extend the network.

However, I am reading the product page for this new water valve and the manual shows it can be paried with Zigbee or BLE so now I’m not sure if it makes sense to start a Zigbee network for this or go with BLE?

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Hi there, for sure you need Zigbee for full control. BLE contains a subset.
I have purchased 2 pcs of Sonoff Hydro ONE with flowmeter, they arrived today. This is the result with ZHA. (only on-off switch available)

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I have the old SWV (plastic threads, no BT) using custom quirks exposes below

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I notice “firmware unknown” as was the case for me before adding the following to my config

zha:
  zigpy_config:
    ota:
      extra_providers:
        - type: z2m
  database_path: zigbee.db
  custom_quirks_path: /config/zhaquirks/