Confused with Coordinator/Hub | Home Assistant | Page 1

limber sage Jan 16, 2025, 5:08 PM

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Hello ! I'm currently gathering informations before buying everything to start my journey into HA and home automation. One thing that still is a bit fuzzy. Sorry if it's on the wrong section since I don't know where this question fits.

I plan to buy a SMLIGHT SLZB-06 coordinator in POE and run HA on my Synology Nas.

Looking online for some random RGB Bulb, I found Tuya light bulb Zigbee. It says that it needs a Tuya Hub to work.

In that case, does the Tuya Zigbee Bulb can be use with the SLZB-06 alone and be used/found in my HA or I still need the brand Hub ?

Same with Aqara, if I look to Sensor Fp1e, it says it requires Aqara Zigbee hub and other third party hubs aren't compatible.

I'm a bit lost.

clever isle Jan 16, 2025, 5:16 PM

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If you have a coordinator and running zigbee2mqtt or zha you don't need a hub, it's worth noting that the add ons for these can't be installed if you have HA running in a container on a NAS

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That said, the tuya zigbee implementation is just... bad, so people run into issues with them a lot

limber sage Jan 16, 2025, 5:18 PM

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Yeah for the AddOns HA need to ba installed insing a VM to have acces to addons right ? I saw that docker is meh with HA.

limber sage Jan 16, 2025, 5:18 PM

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clever isle That said, the tuya zigbee implementation is just... bad, so people run into iss...

So this is more a Tuya issue rather than SMlight/Ha issue ?

clever isle Jan 16, 2025, 5:18 PM

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You can check compatibility with z2m online https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/#

Zigbee2MQTT

Zigbee to MQTT bridge, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges

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Zha doesn't have the same kind of database afaik

limber sage Jan 16, 2025, 5:19 PM

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yeah I found this (https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/#v=Tuya&s=bulb) earlier just trying to find some random zigbee bulb so that's why I went to check Tuya

clever isle Jan 16, 2025, 5:20 PM

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If it's there, it'll work

limber sage Jan 16, 2025, 5:20 PM

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Ok. Thanks for the clarification

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