After migrating from a Home Assistant Green to Yellow, I found the blue light slowly flashing on my ZBT-2. I tried moving the ZBT-2 to different locations, I also powered down the Yellow and re-connected the USB cable. There is nothing in the log file that indicates a related issue (See below). The firmware is up to date Firmware: EmberZNet Zigbee 7.4.4.6. All of my Zigbee devices are functioning normally.
I was prompted to do a Matter update this morning which I did, not sure if the flashing started after that or not.
Everything looks like the Zigbee migration worked. Even so in the integration and hardware settings, I ran the “Migrate Zigbee to new adapter”. It was discovered again, and I clicked the “Add button” and now the light has gone out. Not sure why I had to do this again. When I migrated the ZBT-2 yesterday at one point there was something like “Yellow Zigbee blah blah”. I don’t recall what it said but it was related specifically to the Yellow’s Zigbee.
once you have confirmed everything is working on the zbt2, you may want to switch the yellow over to thread mode, even if you don’t have any now, it will be ready for the future.
Thanks, I was not aware of that! I thought the built-in protocol contained in the Yellow was Zigbee. I’ll have to research it, I’m not even sure how to access the ZBT-1. I don’t have a need for Thread at this time, but I’m sure I will at some point.
UPDATE: I didn’t think I would need Thread this quickly! I watched a video about the Aqara FP300 and they said that it only supports presence sensing in Thread mode, NOT in Zigbee. I was planning on getting one of these when they become available again.
well I’m sure the yellow use zigbee by default, but can be reconfigured to use thread (just not both).
find the yellow zigbee/thread device in the settings, click the gear to choose between zb/thread, follow the prompts to have HA switch it to thread mode.
I’m not sure now. I was looking at the integrations and looking for something like Skyconnect or ZBT-1 but found nothing. Then I found this option to add “Yellow”. But it’s in the Zigbee integration so I don’t think it’s a good idea to add it here. I’ll keep digging!
FYI, I believe to configure the internal antenna I went into Settings → System → Hardware and there is this option to switch between Zigbee and Thread. I just want to confirm this is the internal coordinator and not the ZBT-2 before I proceed!
I followed through and configured the internal adapter as Thread, and it now shows up in my integrations. I still had this “Discovered Yellow” Zigbee message in integrations, I restarted HA, and now that’s gone. I think finally I’m good to go!
It’s remarkable that with one device you can access Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, Matter, and of course Wi-Fi.
