Hi everyone,
I recently moved (well, still moving!) from Samsung SmartThings (ST) to Home Assistant using the HA Green as my platform with a SkyConnect dongle.
(See TL;DR below to skip my self-pitying life story!)
My first ever post was asking how I can get the “decoupled” setting exposed and working for Zigbee switches (Aqara Smart Wall Switch H1 for example). Was advised that ZHA doesn’t support it, but Zigbee2MQTT (Z2M) does. After a bit of tinkering as noob got Z2M working and voila - I had decoupled mode exposed and working - very happy customer!
Then I did my first ever upgrade at the start of December 2013. I brought my HA Green in November 2013, and was excited to see what was new in the 2013.12.1 release so I upgraded…
And now decoupled mode just doesn’t work at all…!
From what I’ve read this isn’t just me, have been told that a formal bug report has been submitted and it’s some issue between HA 2013.12.x and Z2M. Nothing I can do other than wait.
When I moved from ZHA to Z2M I upgrade the firmware on my SkyConnect too and disabled the Multiprotocol support for it as recommended by the guides I read about adopting Z2M.
I’ve basically given up on decoupled mode, at least for now, but I do have a genuine requirement for getting Matter/Thread working as I have a number of Aqara P2 door/window sensors. These are currently working with SmartThings but I’d like to move them over to HA.
When trying to enable multiprotocol support on the SkyConnect it totally bricked my Z2M install - could not get the add-on to start up at all until I disabled support for multiprotocol / Thread/Matter. (Yes, I tried ensuring they were both on the same channel…).
So in summary, I’m kind of done with Z2M. The overheads and complexities just don’t seem worth it. Only thing I wanted it for was decoupled mode which no longer works, and on top of that I can’t seem to get multiprotocol support to work when using Z2M so right now I actually have less usable / required functionality that if I just stuck with ZHA!
TL:DR
How can I rip out Z2M from my HA install and revert to ZHA? ZHA has little to no existing config on it, but I do have a good 12 or so Zigbee devices in Z2M. Would love it if there was a way to move back to ZHA without having to reconfigure every Zigbee device I have which if needed I assume will also mean I’ll have to update every automation and cards on my dashboards too…?
Anyone point me in the right direction to go from Z2M to ZHA or do I just have to hack around removing it and re-add everything by hand?
Thanks for your help,
Steve