Trouble with Sonoff Zigbee dongle + HA OS on Mac

[josephgand]

Hello,

I’m just starting with Home Assistant, installed on a Mac via Virtual Box, using the VDI image.
I plugged in the USB Sonoff Zigbee dongle E, but it doesn’t show up in HA.

I followed the whole basics USB troubleshooting from VirtualBox: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=82639

In Home Assistant, using the Terminal with dmesg, it seems it is recognized:

But it doesn’t show up anywhere else in the user interface for a new integration

I would be glad if you can give me some tricks to debug it.

Many thanks
Joseph

Mac OS 10.13.6
Virtual Box Version 6.1.38 r153438 (Qt5.6.3) + extension pack 6.1.38
HA OS VDI 8.5, version 2022.8.7, supervisor 2022.08.5, user interface 20220802.0 - latest

[josephgand]

Shows up in hardware :

[Rich37804]

Use the “dev/serial/by-id” section in your config

[josephgand]

Thanks for your answer. Where should I configure it?
Following tutorials, it should show up automatically as a new integration discovery, but in my case it doesn’t show up.

[Rich37804]

Go to devices and services, then add integration. Add the ZHA integration. You should be prompted for the dongle address.
You can also do zigbee2mqtt but its a bit more involved with the installation.

[josephgand]

Thanks a lot! It solved it. Do you have any clue why it didn’t show up automatically ?

[Rich37804]

You probably werent holding your tongue right.

[SPYUK]

Hi, I’m planning on doing exactly the same on Mac with Virtualbox. Can you point me to the process you followed regarding flashing the dongle?

Thanks

[josephgand]

Hello, I didn’t flash the dongle (Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 V2), I used as it is out of the box. The links above may help you (USB troubleshooting). It works well since then.

[SPYUK]

Thanks, it worked without any issues