r/homeassistant•3 yr. ago

Recommended/most popular Zigbee USB adapter?

Currently I'm still using a CC2531 Zigbee adapter, which is starting to show its age; so it's time to upgrade to something new. What's the recommended/most popular stick nowadays?

Zigbee2Mqtt seems to recommend TI CC2652/CC1352-based devices with experimental support for the SiLabs EFR32 chips. HA doesn't seem to give a recommendation but supports both the TI as well as the SiLabs chips. But either option has quite a lot of different variants, which one should I choose?

Nobody that ships to my country (NL) seems to have the SkyConnect available, unfortunately.

Posted Jan 8, 2023, 3:59 PM UTC

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alex3305•3 yr. ago

I just migrated from a Conbee II to a Sonoff ZBDongle-P because it was on offer on Amazon. But it currently isn't anymore.

However there is also the Sonoff ZBDongle-E which has the same chipset as SkyConnect. But this chipset is currently marked as 'experimental' in Zigbee2MQTT.

prothu•3 yr. ago

just bought sonoff ZBDognle P. I hope it will work better than conbee 2

zSprawl•3 yr. ago

Is your stick not working? Perhaps just update the firmware and keep using it?

hoffsta•3 yr. ago

I moved from a cheap no-name 2531 to the Sonoff dongle with 2652 & external antenna. I also added some IKEA repeaters around the house. Network reliability improved exponentially. Can’t comment on anything else.

d4nm3d•3 yr. ago

personally i use an ethernet based controller from tubeszb..

it can be located much more centrally than my main server hosting HA and has been rock solid..