Zigbee + Home Assistant: Ultimate Beginner's Guide (2024)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มิ.ย. 2024
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00:00 Intro & What is Zigbee
06:01 Best Coordinator
08:35 How to Connect Zigbee
09:13 Zigbee HA Setup
10:43 What Channel to Use
12:25 Pairing a Device
16:44 Automations
17:48 Mesh Map
20:19 What to By and Not to Buy
26:12 The BEST Part!
Thanks for another great video!
Great info Travis. Thank you.
Good timing as I'm currently considering upgrading my Conbee2.
Nice choice to jump to a POE one.
Thanks Travis, for all us rookies. Really want to see the Z2mqtt install. Have tried twice, failed twice. Reditt and HA Community suggestion are often contradictory and wrong. Show how to validate each step and things to do when it goes wrong. Lots of videos out there with perfect installations.
It can be a little tricky but I'm going to cover it again as a few things have changed since I've done it on both HAOS and docker.
Always a great video. Sonoff S40 ZB plugs are great. IKEA, Innr, and many other Zigbee 3.0 bulbs are great. I am replacing all my Sengled bulbs, even their ZB3.0 devices, because they are not repeaters.
Only side thing to that is no power monitoring on those and I've had a couple people with repeater issues on those which is odd as the S40 ZB is even CC2652 based.
Actually, I prefer Zigbee bulbs *not* being repeaters, because if they are powered off via an upstream switch then the mesh is disrupted.
I have 12 Singled Zigbee RGB bulbs in outdoor housings and porch cans for ~2 years, and so far none have failed. They are controlled by Tasmotized wall and Shelly switches from Home Assistant.
I am currently using a Sonoff Dongle-E, so far had no issues for the last year. I know it's still a work in progress but it's been working fine but I honestly really like the SMLight, that's exactly what I have been looking for. Affordable, full support for Home Assistant and other protocols, WebUI and POE plus more, this is what I have been in search for.
I'm also using a Sonoff Dongle-E but U have changed the firmaware in order to manage both Zigbee and Matter devices. So far so good.
I haven't used my Dongle E for much, I do use the P model though with Zigbee2MQTT and for routers. The POE model is kind of the bomb, I've been impressed with it.
I'm using the Dongle-E too (tbh got it by mistake). No issues so far.
The issues really only come up with Z2M usage on the E model. They are working on the driver for better support though.
@@digiblurDIY awesome! thanks for the info
Cool shirt!
Thanks! MQTT is the way.
In the UK Ikea is really good for remotes, bulbs and plugs. Cheap too.
Sadly Ikea is about a 5-6 hour drive for me. So I don't get time to indulge that often.
IKEA router devices are fine but I have issues with their battery power devices on ZHA
I haven’t pulled the trigger with HA yet I’m trying to get to figure out what the firmware update process is. Normally with a bunch of vendor hubs I can set them up for auto update. What is the process like when you use HA. I saw in your video there was some firmware feature. Will that work for say Phillips or Aqara devices?
I'm not sure if you can do auto updates on the Zigbee side, I know it notifies you have the updates that are available and you just hit the button when you want.
I see a merchandise opportunity for you Travis... Take your shit out th cloud y'all... digiblur T-shirts!!! Ready to buy one brother! 🤣
Indeed! Been using the saying since the Tuya Convert days. I so need to do it!
24:34 I would recommend against rechargeable AAA batteries for zigbee stuff. Rechargeable AAA's have a nominal voltage of about 1.2V and alkaline AAA's have a nominal voltage of 1.5V. The lower voltage can cause problems with some devices. This voltage difference is the reason you often see "do not use with rechargeable batteries" written on some things.
One problem I had was with a Zigbee radiator valve. The device detected the lower voltage as "low battery" and constantly gave me a lower power warning. When i put a regular alkaline battery in those problems went away.
I haven't seen that just yet. I would agree on like a water valve that has 4 batteries. Quite a drop in voltage. In talking with ThirdReality they agreed on the batteries and just stated it would show the lower battery percent for a while then drop down like normal. Ikea actually recommends a 1.2v rechargeable battery in their sensors which is awesome to see.
@@digiblurDIY It probably depends on the device. In the case of the radiator valve I had it would only last about 2 weeks on rechargeable's because the voltage on the rechargeables would drop too low. When i put alkalines in there the battery life is about a year.
There are 1.5V batteries with inbuilt USB-C. I use them in all my AA-compatible low power devices, including Zigbee sensors. AAA are crap, AA - decent.
26:02
What about ikea stuff? They updated their lineup a few months ago using AAA batteries, no more coin batteries. Are they good?
I've had several users say the new door contact sensors are good.
@@digiblurDIY
Aww, was hoping you would check them out as they were new. Those AAA powered remotes were the most interesting, maybe you could start there.
@jackipiegg let me see if they will ship them as the store is 5 hours away from me.
@digiblurDIY I would be interested in that as well!
I ordered a few things from them this morning.
bashing my aqara sensors :( unfortunatly i can't argue with anything you said about them lol. That said, if you can get them super cheap (like i did), you can get them to work really well.
Brave brave! 😎
It is clear we need to have a coordinator to manage our devices but it is not clear to me when we need also a router and why?
thanks
Routers are like repeaters. They route all the products around the house in the mesh. I have sensors all the way across the yard as the stepping stones handle it.
Also 99% of the mains powered devices are routers. Only hand full like Sengled and few random others are not routers.
@@digiblurDIY how to recognize if the device is also a router?
in ZHA, go to the device itself, in the Device Info, hit the Zigbee Info drop down. It should say Device Type: Router
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Many thanks for all the content and a refresh for or just plain new people ... Take care ...
OG is the best! I need to teach him how to Zigbee though.
You know that SLZB-06 is based on ZigStar Firmware?
Last one I saw was ESPHome based on that one. This doesn't seem like ESPHome at all.
No, ESPHOME was a option. They used a fork of Zigstar FW till version 0.9.9 and after they add Zigbee OTA firmware get locked, no any GPL compliance.
F the ☁️ 😄👍
Very much so...doing it one device at a time!
It's Aquara, their no i
Lol... I say it 2 or 3 ways.
There's no u either lol
Home Assistant Nuc, Zigbee over Matter with Hue Bridge and a Third Reality Smart Bridge MZ1.
Zigbee over Matter eh?
@@digiblurDIY add your zigbee to ha via a matter bridge rather than zha or mqtt
So many beginner's guides.... Where are professional guides?!
Just joking, great video. :)
That's actually next with the cool kids Zigbee2mqtt video.