#sonoff zigbee 3.0 dongle plus not recognized by HA VM

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woven wren
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Hi, I am ultimately trying to use aqara door/window sensors so I bought this dongle.
HA VM (Hyper-V) on Win Server 2019 Standard
HA does not see the dongle - ls /dev/tty* (should show up as ttyxxUSB or something to that affect)

I've installed the driver in native Windows OS and ensured it shows up under COM/ports
I've attempted options such as:

  1. usbip
  2. virtualhere

I have seen some ai suggested options such as ser2net, com2tcp or zigbee2mqtt etc.
Does anybody have any good suggestions, I feel like I am in the weeds.

dense dome
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You followed these instructions, especially the bridge set-up?

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Just saw this in there...

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woven wren
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Yep I walked through that one specifically.
Yeah looks like it doesn't have direct usb support which sucks, but I was looking at alternative options through tcp/software etc.

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also thanks for the quick reply

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I'm not opposed to migrating off hyper-v if needed if almost everyone uses something different and it's recommended

dense dome
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You don't want your house running on Windows anyway. Windows updates and restarts too often for a server to work well.

woven wren
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Dang, yeah I've used my windows server for a long time and have other vms setup for work labs and such. I was running into performance issues with a pi so moved it here

lucid sable
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Get a network coordinator such as the SLZB-06 🙂

woven wren
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🙏🏼 Yeah I was actually just looking at that. Since it is over ethernet it can get it's own ip and I'm guessing will be picked up by HA automatically. Bless you kind person.

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SLZB-06M was the one

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unless you recommend otherwise

lucid sable
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Not automatically but you take the hypervisor out of the equation.

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Both variants should be supported well by ZHA and Z2M. The M is apparently a bit more powerful.

woven wren
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Yeah I can setup integrations and will pick it up instead of that nasty ol ~honeybadger hypervisor

lucid sable
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Alternatively you could try with VirtualBox but you have to disable Hyper-V for that to work properly.

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As recommended above, a linux based virtualization platform such as Proxmox VE might be a better idea altogether though.