If you prefer an IP coordinator the SMLIGHT SLZB-06 is a great device supported by Z2M. It’s more expensive than a dongle but IMO worth the difference in certain cases, such as mine (I have OH installed in a place surrounded by metalic devices, with lots of electric interference, but as I have ethernet cabling in all rooms I can place the SLZB-06 where it makes sense). It also supports PoE.
Thanks everyone for your kind advice, i will try the sonoff controller E version as it is very well priced and i will start building with sonoff for now.
My new projects are bed led lights triggered by sonoff motion sensors on either side of the bed (basically light comes on on either side trigger
And my basement stairs lights to be motion activated
Hopefully i will be able to do this with the simpler to use zigbee binding!
I can’t get it to work. I have constant connections and disconnections. I’ve tried everything, including updating the firmware
Are you talking about using the sonoff e with the openhab Zigbee binding oder with Z2M,
cause I have it too and had it first running with the binding and a few weeks ago I switched to z2m.
im talk about to use sonoff TRVZB. MY difficoult was to used with sonoff usb stick. now i resolved with help another user on this forum. at this moment i use Z2M. i have a lot of channel expose with TRVZB instead zigbee binding. thanks for your intersting
Due to a recent issue that made my OH out of order for a few days, I found another benefit of using Z2M vs the OH Zigbee binding: while OH is down, you still can control the vital parts of your installation such as the lights.
Z2M scenes also allows to easily turn a bunch of lights ON/OFF. That’s more an advantage of simply using an external system to handle Zigbee than Z2M itself, but Z2M does the job well here too.
That is the reason why I switched too and even moved Z2M to a seperate Pi.
While the Zigbee binding does it Job when running and things (new Zigbee devices) are much easier to integrale into openhab, just add a new thing after device Discovery, with z2m you have to create a own mqtt thing and define the Channels yourself.
For me it was a pain when I had to restart openhab, as my Network is quite big (over 70 devices) it took almost 2 h until the Devices were back online and the Homematic and the Zigbee binding Blocked each other from restart.
Just to add that there were a lot of changes to improve this in 4.3. I have around 50 devices, and my network is normally back up in a couple of minutes.
I didn’t mean to offend you, your binding was great for getting started with Zigbee and as I said, I would say the big plus was the very easy thing creation!
So thank you very much for your work, it really made it easier for me to get started with Zigbee.
I hope it’s not rude to ask, is there a way to enable direct integration of Zigbee2MQTT in Openhab in the future, i.e. I add a device in Z2M and it appears in my inbox in Openhab?
That does already exist: It is the home Assistant Discovery (has to be enabled in zigbee2mqtt). On top you have to enable the device Discovery in the mqtt binding. In the past it worked well for some devices but failed for others. But I haven’t tried for a long time and maybe it’s better now with z2m 2.0. Would be great if you could try it and report
I wasn’t offended - sorry if I gave that impression. I just thought I’d make the comment in case others were reading.
Ok so in z2m I have to enable Home Assistant integration (MQTT discovery) and set any topic I Like e.g. openhab
But in openhab in the mqtt binding I can‘t find an option to enable, or do I have to just klick scan?
Just go to you mqtt thing, click “show advanced”, scroll down and there you will find it
Ok it already was but in z2m it was not configuered.
Will try it as soon as I start my next project - additional lights for my outdoor kitchen - but that will take a while until it is warmer again.