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Home Assistant compatibility questions (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello,

I don't have any 'smart' items in my house (or home assistant currently) but I want to set this up but I have questions about compatibility with hardware before I purchase. They have a integration page does that mean all of those hardware devices work? Or do some work better than others? According to a person on Reddit they recommend https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/ I'm just curious if anything has changed in the past year. Or if anyone here has a list of recommendations. I plan to start with some lights and a thermostat.

Cheers and thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just a sidenote: zigbee2mqtt is not required unless you specifically need the MQTT part of it. I’m using the official ZHA plugin and everything works as expected. With the added bonus that I can easily backup everything (incl. device pairings!) and restore it to any other Home Assistant.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

True, you don't need zigbee2mqtt but the device compatibility between z2m and zha varies.

https://zigbee.blakadder.com/ is a pretty good source to check device compatibility.

That being said, I personally use zha and before buying a new Zigbee device I check the page mentioned above.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are compatibility issues common with ZigBee? I went down there Z-Wave path years ago, somewhat arbitrarily. I've never checked devices for compatibility, not encountered any that didn't work. As of today, I have 58 z-wave devices connected to HA.

My controller supports ZigBee, and the previous owner left some devices in the house (window sensors, mostly), and I've tried unsuccessfully to pair them; I haven't yet really spent any time trying to troubleshoot, but I've been contemplating adding ZigBee to the mix because they're sometimes cheaper. I really don't want to have to struggle with compatibility, though. It's just one more thing to have to fuss with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

@sxan @Schorsch I don't know how Z-Wave works but from what I could gather if a zigbee device isn't the simplest implementation of a device the coordinator software needs a "driver".
I've had issues with a very specific switch in the standard HA implementation (ZHA), I switched to Zigbee2MQTT and I've never had compatibility issues since!