Zigbee + Home Assistant: Ultimate Beginner's Guide (2024)

Great info Travis. Thank you.

Thanks for another great video!

Good timing as I'm currently considering upgrading my Conbee2.

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.

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.

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.

Cool shirt!

In the UK Ikea is really good for remotes, bulbs and plugs. Cheap too.

I see a merchandise opportunity for you Travis... Take your shit out th cloud y'all... digiblur T-shirts!!! Ready to buy one brother! 🤣

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?

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.

26:02 What about ikea stuff? They updated their lineup a few months ago using AAA batteries, no more coin batteries. Are they good?

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.

WTF who cares about your favorites .... I want to know is the Best is ...... ;) Many thanks for all the content and a refresh for or just plain new people ... Take care ...

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

You know that SLZB-06 is based on ZigStar Firmware?

F the ☁️ 😄👍

It's Aquara, their no i

So many beginner's guides.... Where are professional guides?! Just joking, great video. :)

Home Assistant Nuc, Zigbee over Matter with Hue Bridge and a Third Reality Smart Bridge MZ1.