ZigBee Dongle at Pi, Home Assistant on a NAS

Configuration Zigbee
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Dear all,

as I want to use some Sonoff lamp switches I just ordered a Sonoff ZigBee Dongle.

I am using Home Assistant on a Synology NAS as VM and a mqtt broker as docker image. Both already work quite well, I use the broker for my car and the Wallbox integration. The device is in the basement.

My raspberry pi4 is on the first floor and way more central, so if it is possible I would like to connect the dongle to the pi.

How do I have to configure now both pi and home assistant to get it working?
What option do I have?
Thx for a quick reply, any help is appreciated.
Best
w.

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You have not told us what is running on that.

Probably the best thing to do would be to cancel that order and buy an ethernet connected zigbee controller that you can put anywhere you have a network connection.

There is no way to forward a USB dongle to home assistant over the network.

Unless you are running zigbee2mqtt on the pi?

That would work.

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I am running raspbian on the pi.

Installing and running zigbee2mqtt on the pi is possible. What else do I have to configure? On the pi and at home assistant?

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This :

or this:

on HA, just install the MQTT integration if not already installed.

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Zigbee2MQTT on the raspberry pi

MQTT integration on HA (already there)

That’s all?

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Yes indeed

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Thx. I will give at try tomorrow.

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I do not manage to get it running currently. Need to investigate, whats wrong…

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Is the user added to the dailout group ?

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You have the adapter configured as zstack, but it is a dongle-E, so use ember if latest firmware, or ezsp

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I just updated the firmware.

Now it works.

It is discovered in MQTT integration.
Zigbee2mqtt Proxy add-on works as well.

Now let’s see if devices are discovered.