It looks like that the interface through Virtual Box works fine as I can see the effect of plug/unplug.
Interesting to mention is that the dongle doesn’t show up in the Integrations as discovered. So not sure if there is any conflict with ZHA that I have setup.
I flashed the latest firmware from Github (thanks Koenkk (Koen Kanters)), but the result is the same.
Since you have exhausted everything else maybe try installing z2m standalone in its own VM and see if that works? If not then you should raise an issue on the z2m github.
Hi Nickrout, thanks. But this is not the case. I’ve just given a try to see if the Dongle would be recognized by ZHA, but it is not the intention to run both platforms together. My intention is to migrate from ZHA to Z2M.
But reading some threads, it was expected that the Dongle would appear as a discovered device in the integrations page, and this was not the case. So I tried to discover the device with the current ZHA, but no result.
Yes, I can see it. I didn´t mention but I have the Zigbee devices configured with ZHA and I want to migrate them to Z2M when the platform is ready and configured.
ZHA is working fine, but I got convinced that Z2M is more stable and since I want to have my whole lighting and heating system integrated, I want to make sure I have the most stable solution.
Hi rockets, thanks for the motivation and to give a light in the end of the tunnel.
I like the idea, especially because I can run the Z2M independently for HA, which seems a benefit to have a stable operation of Zigbee devices even when HA is not running. Would that be a benefit?
Did you mean really VM? I didn´t find a solution for a VM. Besides that, it seems quite complicated to setup for both Docker and Windows.
I´m brave enough to start going through this, but would like to ask you first if you would recommend any Youtuber that guides this beautifully?
I could open the case in Github, but wanted to go through this first, as the independent running machine (either VM or Docker) seems to be the best option for me.
Do you mean that I need to remove ZHA from Integrations before I even start to configure Z2M? I just wanted to keep ZHA operating with the 6 devices I have before I move them to Z2M. But I would like to start Z2M first. Is there any incompatibility issue to have both Add-Ons / Integrations running? I was not aware of this.
As you are using virtualbox (I’ve not used this) I presume you just create a new virtual machine with a linux install and do a standard zigbee2mqtt install.
Looking back at post 1 in this thread, there seems to be an error in node running zigbee-herdsman-convertors. Try googling those errors. As you have posted pics rather than text, we can’t do it.
Thanks rockets. I’m looking into that. Doing some research first to choose the right VM/Docker platform.
Yes, I’m running HA in Virtual Box.
I could not find a good tutorial to install Z2M in Docker Desktop so I’m moving to the option of having it installed in Ubuntu through a fresh installation in Virtual Box.
Hi Nickrout, but I just have 1 hardware PC to run both HA and whatever attachments (eg. Dockers and VMs). PC runs Windows with HA installed in a Virtual Box. What setup do you have in mind?