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pine vapor Oct 16, 2024, 10:10 AM

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Hello!
I'm using now tuya zigbee wifi gateways, but I'd rather not want to use external cloud to manage my devices. I've read about some usb zigbee gateways, and found out that HA have it's own one, ZBT-1/Skyconnect, and so I have few questions regarding them:

On website you refer to it as Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 (previously known as Home Assistant SkyConnect) - is there difference between these versions or just renaming? I have opportunity to buy 'SkyConnect' one, but want to make sure it's not some outdated or something.
Will this device/devices work when plugged in directly to my Rasberry Pi 3B+ with HAOS running?

wispy abyss Oct 16, 2024, 10:20 AM

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They are basically the same (same Zigbee chip). The ZBT-1 (with the new logo) had an issue, but are expected to be available again in November. The SkyConnect ones (with the old logo) are not effected.
https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1293305327428698253

pine vapor Oct 16, 2024, 10:22 AM

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Thanks. And my second question, regarding raspberry? Will it work without issues or I'd need some special configuration for it?

wispy abyss Oct 16, 2024, 10:22 AM

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There should be no issues.

pine vapor Oct 16, 2024, 10:23 AM

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Great! So if I understand correctly, after plugging it, and disconnecting tuya gateway, I'll need to reset my devices and connect them via the integrations revelant to every device then, yes?

wispy abyss Oct 16, 2024, 10:39 AM

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Yes.

pine vapor Oct 16, 2024, 10:41 AM

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Thank you for explainations

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