Sonoff Zigbee 3 USB dongle plus and firmware

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I am new to HA, still on a very steep learning curve.

I am running HA natively on a old laptop, bought the Sonoff Zigbee 3 USB dongle plus and its installed and working.

Device info

Generic Zigbee Coordinator (EZSP)
Firmware: 6.10.3.0 build 297

Zigbee info
IEEE: b4:35:22:ff:fe:03:11:1b
Nwk: 0x0000
Device Type: Coordinator
LQI: 255
RSSI: Unknown
Last seen: 2024-09-16T06:26:08
Power source: Mains

I happened to come across a post talking about using a EmberZNet firmware, is this something I should be doing?
If not, is the Firmware I have the latest and most stable to use?

Are my settings all ok?

Thanks in advance for adivce and support :slight_smile:

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any thoughts on this?

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That version is quite old. There is newer firmware available on the Sonoff website. On the other hand, if your Zigbee mesh is working, no need to update.

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Thanks.
Its a new setup, so difficult to tell on performance as I’m still buying, expanding and testing.

Is best practice to use this natively now, not flashing it with something else?

I just realised there are two versions of this, I have the ‘E’ version, if that makes any difference?

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That was clear from the firmware version.
Since you are using ZHA, i don’t think it makes much difference if you upgrade or not. Should you want to use Zigbee2MQTT, it is advisable to upgrade to firmware 7.4.x so you can use the ember

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Thanks.
Is that any version after 7.4?

Are you able to explain what Ember means and the advantages it brings?

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Ember is the new driver for silicon labs based adapters in Zigbee2MQTT. The old ezsp driver is deprecated.

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