• elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    So, if I’m invested in zigbee, but want to future proof, I should consider threads/matter, and a hub that talks to both?

    Can home assistant do that?

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      1 day ago

      Yes if you have a Zigbee and a Thread antenna module connected to your HA instance you can run it as an Zigbee and Matter hub and connect Zigbee and Matter devices. A cheap antenna module is the Sonoff ZBDongle-E. You can flash the firmware of it and turn it into a Thread antenna module. It can also run as a Zigbee and Thread antenna simultaneously, but I never got that working properly. So I just bought two dongles. One for Zigbee and the other for Matter.

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        22 hours ago

        Thanks. I’ll look into it. Right now I have mainly lights and sockets, through a Lidl zigbee hub, a rebranded Tuya, I believe, but I’m looking into going a bit deeper.

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          40 minutes ago

          I’m not running Z2M and ZHA together though. Just ZHA and Matter. But I’ve read that running Z2M and ZHA with two dongles is no problem in HA you just have two separate networks