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Question about the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 (programming.dev)

submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by abrahambelch@programming.dev to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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Hello everybody,

Im currently planning on migrating my smart home to Home Assistant and run the HA docker image on my home server.

Most of my devices communicate via Zigbee so I was thinking of getting the Connect ZBT-1.
I also have a few Matter/Thread devices which would be nice to integrate as well, although not necessarily in the initial migration.

I read the ZBT-1 can experimentally be used with Thread as well. Now my question is: Is it possible to buy two devices and connect to Zigbee and Thread devices simultaneously?

Maybe someone has a similar setup and would like to share their experience.

Thanks in advance and have a nice weekend!

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[–] kowcop@aussie.zone 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I never had any luck with zigbee USB dongles. All my devices would just continually fall over and it was a massive pain getting them back talking. Someone ended up recommending me the Zigstar UZG-1 which is a network Poe device, and I have never had a problem since. It has been up and problem free now for about half a year.

As it isn’t plugged into your device, you should also eliminate the issue trying to get it to work in docker