Where to find the newly paired device after successful pairing with Zigbee2MQTT?

Dear all friend. need help to locate my Zigbee device in HA-UI.
I am using Pi4, running Hass.os, and Iam using HA-UI for everything as I do not know how to use “sudo” command.

I have struggled for a week to learn how to,

  1. Flash CC2531 dongle
  2. Setup Mosquito MQTT addon through HA interface.
  3. Setup a user/password and confiqure MQTT correctly in HA interface.
  4. Setup Zigbee2MQTT addon through HA manual repository.
  5. Configure Zigbee2MQTT to make sure no error message in log file.
  6. Put a zigbee device (zigbee on/off relay,supported device) into pairing mode and get paired by Zigbee2MQTT.
  7. It shows interviewed, accepted and Device ID was created.

I got the above all successfully done and all log file did say so.
(Every step is very steep learning curve for me. )
Now the problem is,
a. I could not find the newly linked device.
b. How do I find and use it? (I just want to create a button to activate the new device).
c. Please let me know what is missing?

I will show all the log file below…
Device


Mosquitto Config
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Mosquitto Log

Zigbee2MQTT Config

Zigbee2MQTT Log

Please note that the initial Device ID was (0x00124b001cd60775), but I manually use samba to access \share\Zigbee2MQTT\ devices.yaml to change it to a friendly name…“zigbee_switch”

Question 1:
All process seems correct, but the problem is I can’t find this switch in HA, please help.
If you need more information, please do request, I will provide ASAP…Thanks

I also follow instruction to create these boolean switches and sensor in HA configuration.yaml to make a card to control the MQTT “join allow/disallow”

Question2:
my “Bridge State” is always shown “unavailable”, Not sure why?

I even setup the HA integration for “MQTT” and “ZIGBEE” I don’t know how to use these 2 and what is it for…

they would be available on the topic zigbee2mqtt/[devicename]
The device name will be its ID or its friendly name if you’re set on up in your zigbee2mqtt config
That’s provided the base_topic set up in zigbee2mqtt is actually zigbee2mqtt. Check your config

Hi, thanks for quick response.
I am not a very advanced user for Homeassistant, in fact I am still very new to HA.
I usually use Picture element, and learn a few code from the default card or badges. I usually just edit the default card.
I normally just add devices that come from the HA drop down list.
But for this case, I couldn’t find this new device anywhere, like under configuration, device or entities.

Could you please help me with more specific on how to get this device appear?
Sorry that I could not figure out with your advice on “topic zigbee2mqtt/[devicename]”
And may I know what is “base_topic set up in zigbee2mqtt”

If you could please help to draft a simple few line code so that I could follow like this?
Thanks in advanced.

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You should not have the zigbee integration set up since you’re using zigbee2mqtt else you may have a clash with 2 applications trying to access the zigbee device…
Sounds like you’ve done the setup correctly (you may want to remove those pics showing your username and password btw)

Thanks @lolouk44 , replaced pics with dummy username/password.
I will try to remove the 2 integration, and check what happen.
As for now, I cannot find the new switch anywhere in HA.

No, after removing the integrations, the switch still does not appear.
After restart HA, the MQTT integration re-appear again, I tried to remove 2times, it seems like not installed by me.
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Search them in developer tools.

Thanks @mcarty, cannot find also in developer tools…

the mqtt integration probavly shows up because you’ve installed the mosquitto mqtt broker add-on :wink:
Can you try a tool like mqtt explorer to make sure you’re getting the info showing up?
all I can think is that you’re not connecting to the correct broken at either side.

Hi @lolouk44, thanks for your prompting and questioning, in the process I solve my own problem.

  1. After I delete the 2 integration,
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  2. The MQTT integration re-appear again…
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    3.Then I tried to delete it one more time. Without restart HA, I tried to add MQTT Integration again, and this time round, a dialog pop up and ask for information. And I input
  3. And then magically, the MQTT Box flashes a few time and the device is broadcast.
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And now thanks to everyone for putting a few head together and solve this unusual problem.