Guys,
With ZHA removed and no zigbee devices, zigbee2mqtt won’t detect my Sonoff Zigbee coordinator, and won’t start. Frontend doesn’t start. ZHA had no trouble detecting the dongle before I removed it. From the log:
[2025-10-20 08:20:47] info: z2m: Logging to console, file (filename: log.log) [2025-10-20 08:20:47] info: z2m: Starting Zigbee2MQTT version 2.6.2 (commit #unknown) [2025-10-20 08:20:47] info: z2m: Starting zigbee-herdsman (6.1.5) [2025-10-20 08:20:48] info: zh:zstack:znp: Opening SerialPort with {"path":"/dev/serial/by-id/usb-Itead_Sonoff_Zigbee_3.0_USB_Dongle_Plus_V2_5ab4103f4b1fef11a0f04ed0639e525b-if00-port0","baudRate":115200,"rtscts":false,"autoOpen":false} [2025-10-20 08:20:48] info: zh:zstack:znp: Serialport opened [2025-10-20 08:20:48] info: zh:zstack:znp: Writing CC2530/CC2531 skip bootloader payload [2025-10-20 08:20:49] info: zh:zstack:znp: Skip bootloader for CC2652/CC1352 [2025-10-20 08:21:08] error: z2m: Error while starting zigbee-herdsman [2025-10-20 08:21:08] error: z2m: Failed to start zigbee-herdsman [2025-10-20 08:21:08] error: z2m: Check https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/installation/20_zigbee2mqtt-fails-to-start_crashes-runtime.html for possible solutions [2025-10-20 08:21:08] error: z2m: Exiting... [2025-10-20 08:21:08] error: z2m: Error: Failed to connect to the adapter (Error: SRSP - SYS - ping after 6000ms) at ZStackAdapter.start (/app/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/adapter/z-stack/adapter/zStackAdapter.ts:115:27) at Controller.start (/app/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/zigbee-herdsman/src/controller/controller.ts:133:29) at Zigbee.start (/app/lib/zigbee.ts:67:27) at Controller.start (/app/lib/controller.ts:101:13) at start (/app/index.js:149:5)
Your help would be much appreciated.