Hello,
Today I have a zi stick from aeotec. In order to get Zigbee2MTTQ up and running, I have to buy a Sonoff Dongle. As I understand it, I can’t run it with zi-stick?
I need your advice. Should I sell the Zi stick or is there a use for it even though I have Sonoff?
An aeotec Stick is ZWave Sonoff is Zigbee
They are two completely different systems. And yes they can run simultaneously.
The Aeotec will continue to be driven by ZWave and your other Sonoff stick can be driven by ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT
https://aeotec.com/products/aeotec-z-stick-zigbee/
Says it is Zigbee
According to
it is a EFR32MG21 based stick, so should work with Zigbee2MQTT if you define the adapter as ezsp
Ah that’s that new stick from Aeotec my apologies. (aeotec didn’t do Zigbee until very recently)
So that’s thier new one coming out of thier partnership with SmartThings.
You can technically use both sticks at the same time but it’s one stick per integration. So if Zigbee2MQTT is using this one nothing else can. You could use ZHA instead.
So two sticks two integrations or pick one or the other.
Okej, so i Can use Sonoff to all Zigbee2mttq and my zi-stick to ZHA?
Sure. Just when you do that to be sure the integration is connecting to the ‘right stick’ specify it by id (the big long address for the stick listed under hardware) instead of the virtual USB port (ttyacm/ama0/1) in case they switch on you (it can happen)
Also because you’re setting up a second zigbee network make sure you don’t use the same zigbee channel for both and that your new channel is also not conflicting with 2.4Ghz, wifi in your area (there’s multiple posts here on wifi/zigbee coexistence so ill omit that here)
Finally, remember zigbee is a mesh network. Your new stick will create a new network so it’s range will be entirely independent of your other zigbee network. Plan repeaters etc. Accordingly