#Can I have Thread, ZHA and Z2MQTT running on one yellow with 2 Zigbee dongles?

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ripe dust
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Hey there, as the header ask I somewhat want to have it all. I have a Yellow, with a Sonoff MG24 Dongle, I have successfully moved the ZHA devices to the dongle and changed the integrated Controller to Thread both of which work apparently (no issues after the switchover).
Greedy as I am I now also want to have Z2MQTT for those IoT devices that are not ZHA compatible.
Can I just get a second USB Dongle and use that USB Device for the serial controller?
Is there a better way to "have it all"
I do have additional Raspberry Pis which I could repurpose for any of this.

I do appreciate some feedback, as to the why: just because I believe I can.

wise folio
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Yes, you could use another Zigbee adapter for zigbee2mqtt, but you're really better off having everything on a single Zigbee network. If ZHA doesn't support a device, it means it doesn't follow the Zigbee spec and support would need to be added for it via a quirk. It would be worth searching for an existing device support request here and creating one if one doesn't exist.

ripe dust
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so it really is "choose Z2MQTT or ZHA and live with it", request a quirk if necessary should you have choses ZHA

wise folio
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If you're okay with maintaining two separate Zigbee networks, then you can definitely run both

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But Zigbee routers (repeaters) on one Zigbee network will not route traffic for another network, so you'd have to build that out on both (unless you're in a very small space)