Some tips regarding setting up a Zigbee network (also in an upcoming video about Zigbee devices): - Use a USB extension cable with the Sonoff Dongle, especially if you use an SSD. Interference from the Pi can considerably reduce your range. - If you have any Zigbee light bulbs (e.g. Philips Hue) or mains switches, pair these first in the rooms they're intended for. As these aren't battery-powered, they're generally routing devices. This helps to strengthen your network. - Pair the sensors in their final location. These will then pair with the nearest Zigbee router, such as a light bulb, already on the network. - Keep an eye on battery levels of your sensors. This is normally one of the statistics reported by the sensor. Maybe set up an automation to alert you (BeardedTinker has a recent video on how to do this), or create a separate dashboard with battery levels. Keep a note of what type of battery they use and hold a small stock of them.

I love your tutorials! Its fast, to the point, and i can pause when i need to - i don't need to listen to unnecessary fillins. Thanks again!

TIP: If you have the "E" version dongle, don't forget to put "adapter: ezsp" in serial section in the Z2M configuration file. "P" version dongle doesn't require this.

Best tutorial ever! I wish I had come across your video first. I wasted many hours watching and reading other tutorials. They all skipped the crucial step of ignoring the default HA Zigbee integration. I can't thank you enough.

Your Tutorial made it very easy for me (no English mother tongue) to follow successfully. You have a special talent to pause at critical points when some action is required by the student to follow step by step. Thank you very much indeed.

Hi, thanks so much for your video! I had a bit of a nightmare after following other videos which were outdated. I followed yours but the dongle was already configured by HASS so I removed it, restarted HASS, ignored it and now Zigbee2MQTT works! Subscribing to your channel, many thanks again!

Thanks! I've tried so many different tutorial to get that stuff working.... Yours DID work!

Excellent, pleasantly concise instructions, thank you! I still spent several hours with the setup because no devices were recognised. Finally it worked after I moved the Sonoff stick out of the vicinity of the wifi router using a USB extension cable - the solution can be so simple! 🙂

Really brilliant tutorial for dummies thank you. Spent an age trying to work out how to do this. In the meantime my home set up had an "event" that sent all my devices offline and left a recurring error in the log to the effect that I was using an insecure default Zigbee2 MQTT network key. Couldnt find any intel on the forums. Anyway I need to scratch the Z2M itch and this is perfect. Just like your Sonoff flashing tutorial. I wasted a day on it before stumbling across your excellent videos. Kudos! will coffee you later. Just thought I had to thank you first on here. One thing though. Why isn't there a place where the network key can be configured not to use the default? Oops! May have posted this in the wrong vid.

Good to hear some devices you must connected two times to get all atributes😀

hi there , I have been playing with homeassistant and have built some ESP32 nodes to monitor temperature and control things like pumps. ive got the ESP 32 node reading the temp and humidity and also i configured four outputs to drive relays for running pumps and vents.., the one thing i found after purchasing a Zigbee Dongle was getting the zigbee2mqtt to work , what a nightmare. after watching countless videos i came across your channel , i went through it first just watching the procedure a few times . after many frustrating times with other video where i got nowhere. Then today i sat with your instructions and followed to the letter , i must say your instructions are first class , i got it working !!. it was like jumping through fired HOOPS with all the other videos out there . I would like to buy you a drink for an excellent tutorial . I'm trying to get to grips with Node red . I have two large polly tunnels and want to look after the temperatures and water the plants since i'm growing quite a lot of HOT chillies . I can build the hardware using ESp32 8266 etc and have them controlling things, ive extended my WiFi to cover the whole Garden and its very big, to make sure i can control the devices im going to build , ive worked out how to control vents on my polytunnes using a ESP32. so it just getting to grips with Nodered in home assistant for automation. Im a pretty technical person and can work out most thing but this got me spitting feathers.... Iv'e installed file editor, Grafana, Hacs, Influxdb,NodeRed,Studio code server, terminal ssh ,zigbee2mqtt now ill put my first Ziggbee sensor on the fridge door since the wife plays hell with me leaving it open. in some NODE red instructions there is the need to read temperature and humidity , im using the DHT22 , but when i try to add the device to the dashboard i complains with a Fail. seems it need some libraries , so this is my next thing to fix , i want to use NodeRed to read these devices and do an automation on running fans water pumps etc. so if you know a fix for this a video in that area would be super. i'm retired and just plying with technology , im quite good at building stuff and an active radio ham. I can bounce signal off the moon but that Zigbee set up had me spiting feathers.... I have joined you £5 Patreon ... once again your the Man ...

Perfect speed!! Most youtubers are in a hurry. Perfect!!!!

Great Video and perfect walkthrough! Thank You!

Thanks for the manual, still up-to-date

Thanks a lot for a guide that finally got this working for me.

Worked Like a charm.

This tutorial is great! Thank you

This walkthrough is awesome! Followed step by step to configure by Sonoff hub and my Aqara motion sensors. IT WORKS!!! Great job! Only question I have is, How to I update my Aqara motion sensor settings? they seem to revert to whatever they were at.

Thank you, very helpful!

EXCELLENT tutorial

Thank you for this video! I have HA, but I am not a computer wiz, and I really need things explaining and showing to me like I'm a toddler. I find a lot of the HA documentation, Github documentation and the HA forums way too complicated (and often quite hostile towards newbies with newbie questions!). I'm wanting to install Zigbee and Zigbee2MQTT, so I'm doing a lot of reading and prep work for it, just so I know what to face when I finally dare to take the leap. This video helps calm my nerves, and I'll have it guide me through it step by step when I get to that point! So far, it looks pretty straightforward (famous last words...).

Thanks for this tutorial!

its much preffered if you juse use the "/dev/serial/by-id/" as the device can changed with different name after a reboot or after getting a USB reset error or by a simple unplug and plugging it back again.

Very nice thank you

Thanks!

Thank you!

EXTREMELY helpful! Thank you so much!

Question: before going to the ‘repository’ you said to make sure you have ‘something switched on somewhere’. I could not make out what you were talking about. Please clarify.

I wish I had seen this video before my first tinkering with HA. How do I disable or unpair the dongle from ZHA so I can pair with zigbee2mqtt ?

somewhat helpful but a few things are still confusing. At 3:32 the part about the server. You state to make it the Home Assistant IP address. But what about the port after the iP. should that match the home assistant as well? or use the one shown. Then the next step about tying in terminal. I don't have terminal on my Home assistant? that seems like a whole other video on how to add that option. Sorry new to this and a bit lost

May be a stupid question, but do I remove the Conbee II dongle I'm currently using with ZHA before I do any of this? Thanks for the answer.

I had setup my sonoff in HA using the standard way in home assistant before seeing this video. Can you tell me the advantages of switching to 2MQTT? Thank you

Thank you very much. Damn I got stuck because addon did not show up. Ctrl+f5

Merci 👌

Thank you for this great video. I had tried others and they did not work but yours did!! One question tho. Can you change the c to f on temps for devices?

Super vide. Please, how can I use ZBdongle3+ and xiaomi gateway3 together in a one homeassistant?

Great video, thanks! One question. Only Sonoff devices are working with sonoff usb stick? I have tuya roller shutter module..will it be also handled or any additional work is required to make it compatible?

My usb zigbee is inside my nas and home assistant is running on the nas in a docker environment, any idea on how to detect the usb zigbee 3.0 ?

where is the URL? add it to the description! 2:08

Thank you for your video. I have setup my home network without problems. Just a quick question, if the battery of a sensor is running dry, what should you do after putting a new battery in? My homeassistant couldnt discover the sensor after the battery replacement and i had to re-pair the sensor again.

I get a "failed to connect" message when trying to configure the MQTT connection

So I currently use the Sonoff 3.0 USB Dongle with ZHA...I find sometimes that because of the distance between my dongle and the (let's say) light in the bathroom, it doesn't pick up the light in the "Add device" of the Sonoff Zigbee integration. Will using this method of yours with Z2MQTT be better? I have very strong wifi signal in entire home, but feel a bit short changed on the distance I'm getting with my Zigbee devices and this 3.0 dongle. Thanks again :)

Does this work with any device that utilizes Zigbee or just SONOFF?

Im a bit confused. is this instalation to use with an out of the box dongle, or do you have to do something to it before doing this?

This dongle must be connected to a computer USB or after configuring it can be connected to any USB?

Is there a dongle device connected to an Internet router so that Zigbee end devices work through it? without a physical server at home. How is it possible to use only cloud zigbee server?

Can’t execute a ”dmesq | grep tty” command. Have only a ”ha >” prompt. Why?

Kann man den Sonoff Zigbee USB Dongle Plus P auf die MAX Leistung 20 dBm stellen und wenn ja wie ?

anyway isn`t able to connect stick...i have errors

At 2:12 I needed to restart HA to see the Home Assistant Add-on: Zigbee2MQTT in the Add-on Store.

Were can i find the url? 2:08

After dmesg I grep tty I get an error message : unknow command « dmesg » for « ha ». 😢 What should I do ? Thanks 😊

Me da error al hacerlo en el Terminal, me pone "failed set request...", me dice que el cp210x converter disconected from ttyUSB0 😭😭

Can I use Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus with Zigbee2MQTT to control Tuya Switch without using Tuya Hub?

When i use the dmsg function in the terminal, the only thing that looks like my USB device is called ttyACM0, but when I use it in the config, the server doesn't seem to connect to anything, log is stuck after the 3 or 4 first lines :(

how to type this line in the command after dmesg???

Why 1883? I cant Connect

Never buy this crap unless you want problems with your network. It's impossible to make it work properly now, maybe only on new chips, but you'll never know what you bought until you see it. Version P is good

Works lik a a charm :) confirmed with rpi3b & CC2652P, mqtt 6.1.3, zigbee2mqtt 1.29.0 on X64 Home Assistant 2022.12.9 Supervisor 2022.12.1 Operating System 9.4 Frontend-versie: 20221213.1 - latest

Great video and thank you for posting. I have been stuck on the serial port. It seems it cannot recognize my port. Whenever I do dmesg it shows the dongle has been converted to ttyusb0. Whenever I enter /dev/ttyusb0 I get error on the log. I have spent multiple hours on it. I'm stuck

When I put start en zigbee2mqtt the button is "freeze" but the logs looks like the zigbee2mqtt started ! Zigbee2MQTT:info 2023-05-01 11:52:39: Zigbee2MQTT started!