Hi all. New to openhab, just installed it on qnap server. My home is a little complex, has some devices on zwave and zigbee via smart things. Some of them are on ZigBee via tuya, some are reflected via Google home via WiFi and etc As a first step I am trying (without success) to bind smart things…

nooo, please don’t do that. With openhab you’ve got one of the best (the best :innocent:) home automation hubs, that supports thousands of devices. If you add another (worse) one your whole system suffers. Openhab is designed to talk to your devices and provides hundreds of bindings for that. In gen…

I haven’t checked in on Smartthings in a long time, but it was always problematic. Does your Smartthings hub support Matter? If so, you could try out the Matter binding that’s in alpha development, but has seen a ton of progress in the last few weeks. It would be really great to have someone test S…

Zigbee-, zwave- and wifi-devices can usually be handled locally with openhab. You just need the zigbee and zwave dongles. Imho that’s the fun part of openhab to get rid of the annoying cloud stuff. Do you have any devices that can’t be handled locally?

Almost all of my devices can be handled locally. Any recommendations for dongles? I would like to connect them directly to my QNAP. I guess that the dongles must be connected to the same hardware that runs ooenHAB. Any way to connect network dongles?

I use an 2652r (zzh) for years now, many use sonoff or aeotec. For zwave I don’t know. There used to be a combined stick too but it’s quite outdated. I read somewhere that a new combined one was offered now.

How about using hubitat or home assistant yellow as my primary hub instead of a usb dongle? Will openhab will be able to control those? Any pros/cons for USB vs external hub?

Convinced me :slight_smile: Ordering ZigBee and zwave dongles and preparing a place in the garbage for my ST and Tuya hubs. I guess that when HW will arrive the first setup will be a pain in the a$$, but I have you guys on this wonderful community.

Yeah, that’s why I suggested trying out the Matter binding first. If it works then it would be the most painless way to get your Zigbee/Z-Wave devices into OH to play around. For long-term use I’d definitely want to remove the SmartThings hub. Good luck!

count on us. We will help as good as we can. But your right: Openhab on qnap (docker? proxmox?) might not be the easiest starting point. On a raspberry you can benefit from openhabian that provides support for common installations. But yes, containers are gaining popularity here too.

I having hard time to find zwave dongle (eu standard) supported by openHAB I have seen this one ( Z-Wave Plus Long Range Zooz USB Dongle 800 (EU / UK version) – Vesternet ) but I understand that 800 series are not supported. Any ideas for a zwave dongle?

As far as I know I don’t think that ST can be connected as slave via matter. If you have any idea how to do that I’ll be happy to learn.

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apella12 (Bob Eckhoff) November 18, 2024, 8:15pm 15

Only caveat, and it applies equally to OH and Zwave-js is to upgrade the SDK. Note this from my Zwave-js-ui installation.