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opal vapor Dec 11, 2025, 8:36 PM

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Just received my first Zigbee 3.0 USB dongle. Should I just do ZHA or Zigbee2mqtt ?

I was hoping to avoid Zigbee networks altogether since I already have matter devices integrated well, but some devices are just so much cheaper with Zigbee so I thought I would try it out. So wondering if I should just use ZHA or take the plunge and do Zigbee2mqtt ?

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ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT

green aurora Dec 11, 2025, 9:35 PM

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they both work good, the question is how you want it to work..
ZHA for simple and easy, but less devices may be supported and not always all the options are available.
Z2M for more tinkering, not really that hard to set up but does require more steps, exposes most to all options from a device and is often faster in supporting new devices.

opal vapor Dec 11, 2025, 10:07 PM

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So I think the 'easy' aspect of ZHA has been nullified by the fact that the HA container is not really seeing the dongle - If I do lsusb in the container, it sees the device id, and identifies it as a serial bus, etc.. but the descriptions seems very generic and doesn't actually map it to a /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/serial-by-id like the host system does.

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I guess I'll try the Z2M container.. seems I can map the dongle directly

opal vapor Dec 11, 2025, 10:32 PM

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Argh need to setup a broker first..

#ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT