Which one to buy ? ZigStar UZG vs SMLIGHT SLZB-06M

calm_jalepeno · April 29, 2024, 8:09am

Hello everyone,

I am looking to move into home automation using home assistant, I have purchased two tuya zigbee devices (door sensor and presence sensor).

Now I am looking to integrate them with Homeassistant (installed on my RasperryPi 4B).

I searched for Zigbee co-ordinators and found these two, Zigstar uzg and SMLIGHT SLZB-06M. I liked these two because they offered ethernet connectivity as opposed to connecting it via usb to the Pi.

Apart from the price difference between the two (SMLIGHT is cheaper ), which one is better in terms of ease of use ? Has anyone faced any difficulties or problems with these two over a period of time ?

I would really appreciate your help.

francisp · April 29, 2024, 8:13am

What are you going to use: ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT ? If Zigbee2MQTT, definitely the Zigstar, if using ZHA, either will be good. There is also the SMLIGHT SLZB-06.

LiQuid_cOOled · April 29, 2024, 8:18am

I have two SLZB-06s (1 coordinator, 1 router) and love them. They have a straightforward UI and firmware is easy to flash.

francisp · April 29, 2024, 8:21am

That is why I mentioned the SMLIGHT SLZB-06, it uses a TI chipset, the SMLIGHT SLZB-06M uses a silabs chipset.

LiQuid_cOOled · April 29, 2024, 8:25am

Definitely!!! Exactly why I went with the SLZB-06 vs the M. I’ve had more success with the TI chipsets and read a lot of your posts.

I had the Sonoff P and E, but finally settled on ethernet coordinator/routers.

calm_jalepeno · April 29, 2024, 9:48am

I was thinking of using Zigbee2MQTT

calm_jalepeno · April 29, 2024, 9:49am

Is the SMLIGHT SLZB-06 better than the M version ? I thought the M version is more newer ?

francisp · April 29, 2024, 9:52am

I would Prefer the SLZB-06 over the M.

calm_jalepeno · April 29, 2024, 9:54am

Thank you @francisp and @LiQuid_cOOled, Im going with the SLZB-06

HarvinDhillon · May 9, 2024, 10:42am

Did you get one in the end?

I bought a SLZB-06 but it couldnt connect to my network. Contacted support and they gave me another one but still the same issue, it will never connect to the network.

I have a UZG-01 that works fine except it is P7 based and I wanted something with the P2 chipset for more stability and maybe separating my network in the future (1 have over 150 devices)

I am wondering if these SLZB-06 are just defective? Cant possibly be my network?

mercenaruss · May 9, 2024, 11:01am

P7 now is at pretty good stage,update using MultiTool to this last firmware: Z-Stack_3.x.0 coordinator 20240315 feedback · Koenkk/Z-Stack-firmware · Discussion #496 · GitHub

HarvinDhillon · May 9, 2024, 11:04am

I am still having the bug where the UZG-01 requires a full power cycle even with the latest firmware.

I had to do one this morning after the network being stable for the last 5 days, woke up to half my devices offline and nothing working.

mercenaruss · May 9, 2024, 11:16am

Can you provide here a list for Tuya devices in your network?
also try to use MQTT option available in UZG-01 to restart automatically until Koenkk is solving the issues

HarvinDhillon · May 9, 2024, 11:17am

Sure @mercenaruss , let me do that on the Zigstar thread, makes more sense there

hazio · July 9, 2024, 12:42am

What’s your reasoning?

jeffcrum · July 9, 2024, 2:22am

The non M version is an older chip I believe that is better supported. The M version uses a newer chip.

I have two of the non M versions and have zero issues.

pepe59 · July 9, 2024, 7:46am

I use SLZB-06M, no problem.
Works well with EmberZNet

Milan2 · August 28, 2024, 7:30am

Hi Pepe59,

Hope you are good !!

Need some help and advice regarding the setup .I am trying to setup my Z2M network. I am running HA on generic-x86-64 hardware with HA Supervisor and Core OS.

I have recently order smlight slzb-06m coordinator and planning to run with a LAN connection so that i can place in a central location.

The first problem i encountered is that when I plug the LAN cable to the coordinator the yellow power led didn’t glow , so I have power with the C-type USB. I was under impression that only the LAN connection will be sufficient for both network and power . Is my device is a faulty or its how it work.

I have install the add-on Zigbee2MQTT and Mosquitto broker is running locally as I am using that for my Solar integration (That is also one of my ongoing project ). I have updated the port details and tried to start but its failing. Looks like I am missing some config

Error :-

pepe59 · August 28, 2024, 7:50am

If you would like to power via UTP LAN, you must have a switch that supports POE power.
I also use USB C power here
Configuration that works for me but first I updated SLZB-06M to latest fw and then in Z2M setup
You need to add MQTT settings to your Z2M configuration

mqtt:
  base_topic: zigbee2mqtt
  server: mqtt://core-mosquitto
  user: xxxxx
  password: xxxxxxx

serial:
  port: tcp://1xx.1x.1.xxx:6638
  adapter: ember
  rtscts: false
  baudrate: 115200
  disable_led: false

If Z2M does not work after starting the add-on, please restart Z2M

Milan2 · August 28, 2024, 9:50am

Thank you Pepe59,

Finally I am able to start the Z2M. However I managed to access the SLZB-06M browser . where I found that the instruction is to use

adapter: ezsp

I have used that in place of

ember

I am still new to this and not clear about the EZSP and EMBER. My Current core firmware version: v2.3.6 and Your current firmware revision: 20231030. I have to explore what does these means .

I am going to pair my Aqura Door sensor now . Thank you for your help.