Zigbee PoE Adapter Review & How To with Home Assistant and More

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00:00 POE Ethernet - SMLight
02:46 Flavor to Buy & Where
04:06 Why Ethernet?
05:40 Hands on with the Adapter
09:00 Which one to get?
11:27 Connection & GUI Walkthrough
16:23 Favorite Feature! UPGRADES!
18:17 Home Assistant Setup & Test
22:18 Stuck with cool people?
23:50 The guts!

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@sirerikpendragon 6 сағат бұрын

Is there a z-wave equivalent to this?

@digiblurDIY 6 сағат бұрын

Almost.. tubeszb.com/product/z-wave-poe-kit/

@doctornope939 29 күн бұрын

I've been doing home automation for years. I decided to get serious about zigbee. 10 minutes later I find you did a video 4 days earlier. You're awesome, I've been watching your stuff for years. Keep up the great work!

@digiblurDIY 28 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching over the years! Zigbee is still alive and well... It is awesome

@pappyman179 Ай бұрын

My POE went down and I had to use a non-powered switch, but I used the USB from an unrelated device to power it and it sat on the LAN just like normal. Worked fine until I could replace the POE switch. I'm using straight Zigbee, haven't tried MQTT yet. It talks to 4 different brands of devices in my house. Thermos, plugs, IR blaster, dimmers, etc.. Using HA, I think it was as easy as setting the switch to pick USB or LAN and telling HA the IP and default port, then it found all the Zigbee devices when they were put in "learn" mode. No hiccups, been using for 6 months or so. HA can send OTA updates to the Zigbee devices, with a click. No complaints, handy lil guy.

@JohnDoe1999-lg7mh 21 күн бұрын

Thanks. I got mine the other day and have it configured as a router. I still need to add a BT Proxy to my setup. For me, mostly so I can do stuff with my apple watch. Wish I had this type of stuff 30 years ago.

@temodeed 23 күн бұрын

Awesome explanation.

@digiblurDIY 23 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@ronm6585 Ай бұрын

Thanks.

@JesseG2573 Ай бұрын

Great video Travis... I'm looking forward to your Z2M migration video, I'd hate to lose all I have. Currently running 2 Sonoff sticks - 1 as a router and the other as a coordinator with about 50 devices on my system.

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Working on it this week I hope between some out of town family drama but I'll get there!

@JesseG2573 29 күн бұрын

@@digiblurDIY Haing in there buddy

@wingzero0117 Ай бұрын

Cool, I think I'm going to order one.

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

The software running on the stick definitely makes it easy to setup and manage. So so nice.

@BradleyFordAus Ай бұрын

I've been using the EFR with Z2M, so far it's been bullet proof. Now that the ember driver has exited Beta it gives that extra confidence

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Yes I tried it a couple years ago and it was a mess. Lots of issues with devices dropping off so I fully understood the experimental flag in Z2M. I do want to try out the new driver once it stabilizes a bit, pretty cool they redid it all.

@BradleyFordAus Ай бұрын

@@digiblurDIY I should also say I am using 2 of the SMLights EFR versions. As you say the firmware updates are pure bliss!!! I am thinking when I start deploying Matter over Thread it will be with one of these as well

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

I have a current Skyconnect EFR based stick. That is one thing I want to try is to use one of these over ethernet for thread.

@DmitriyKhazansky Ай бұрын

I’ve had one of these for a few months and it’s pretty great. Another benefit is that you can charge it with a power brick and then walk around and pair it to all of your devices so that you’re very close to them and they pair quickly. I had a few devices in the garage that refused to pair until I did this.

@BobSmith42 Ай бұрын

What happened when you moved it back to the center? Most guidance I've seen says to pair Zigbee devices from the locations they will live at.

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Same as well, I always pair in place. If something won't pair due to distance then I probably need to build the mesh out a little more.

@digaum Күн бұрын

Why the 06 and not the 06p7 though? It seems like that's an upgrade for 4 bucks more. What's your opinion on it?

@jr456 Ай бұрын

just a few countries used cm Country count 195, only 3 doesn’t use metric

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Yup! They lied to us in school!

@davejblair 29 күн бұрын

My aunt arrived at the train station and I was 'sent to meet her'. That joke just doesn't work so well with inches.

@cooljey86 Ай бұрын

Hello, I been looking into Zigbee. I'm trying to decide if I should go with tuya Wifi based switches VS Zigbee. I did some gooling, can't seem to find comparison betwen two techs. What would you suggest? Thanks fo the video!!!

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Really down to if you have neutrals in your walls.

@johnadams1976 Ай бұрын

"There's just a few countries that use cm or there".... Ok!!! 😂🤣😂🤣

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

YUP! :)

@olasumbo2663 17 күн бұрын

Hahahahaha. I was gonna be like. Are you serious man. Lol.😂😂😂

@digiblurDIY 17 күн бұрын

Little bit of sarcasm there. ;)

@calebjpryor Ай бұрын

You always having me spend my money... I do love my tubezb Poe but updating the firmware is difficult.

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Tough to upgrade for sure if you are pretty much already there.

@mrykhoek Ай бұрын

Great video! Is there anything like this for zwave?

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Thanks! Not that I know of, all I have seen is Pi hats and USB stuff

@juri14111996 29 күн бұрын

the antenna is not the main problem. the problem with usb dongle is the interface. USB. USB is not practical with virtual servers, especialy if you run a cluster of servers, the vm can move between hosts, so usb is not an option at all.

@michaelwilliams6442 Ай бұрын

Thanks for your video on Zigbee, how do connect to some of my Zwave devices?

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

You'd need to use ZwaveJS and a Zwave USB dongle

@davejblair 29 күн бұрын

@@digiblurDIY What is it about the word "dongle"?

@kiloy1006 Ай бұрын

Yep

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Yup

@carltonwbrooks Ай бұрын

If going to this device do you need to re sync all the devices. You showed pairing of the plug, but is that new or already in your network. I use zigbee2mqtt on a docker setup how might this affect my setup. Lasstly what is the range of the device?

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

What are you using on Z2M now for a coordinator?

@Rickr522 Ай бұрын

I wasn’t clear on this. Could I run two (or more) of these things on the same network. One coordinator and one or more as routers?

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Yes, you can run multiple others are routers on the same network.

@mercenaruss Ай бұрын

Have the same in ZigStar firmware,but opensource

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Nice!

@shanebekker Ай бұрын

I have seen that ethernet Zigbee devices can interface with both ZHA and Z2M. Can SLZB-06M interface with ZHA & Z2M?

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Definitely don't do them at the same time for sure. But yes the 06M can do Z2M but it is still marked as experimental, I'd go with the 06 (non M) if you plan or think about using Z2M.

@lsaarave 5 күн бұрын

hi is there a way to migrate from a sonoff zigbee dongle E to a SLZB-06 with out repairing all my devises Im using Z2M

@digiblurDIY 5 күн бұрын

Not that I know of. Manual is it given the two different chipsets

@algailimoh Ай бұрын

ihope if you can explain in video how to add multiple zigbee2mqtt in homeassistant please

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

You can one two for sure with ease in HAOS, if you do your own docker thing, it is pretty unlimited.

@zaprodk Ай бұрын

So if I understand correctly, right now i have the Skyconnect dongle in my Home Assistant server, that works well, but it doesn't cover my garage. Would placing this in my garage work together with the Skyconnect all at the same time?

@BobSmith42 Ай бұрын

Not in the same network, with two coordinators. You could create two networks, or run one coordinator and a repeater.

@zaprodk Ай бұрын

@@BobSmith42 I want all the devices on the same ZHA setup.

@BobSmith42 Ай бұрын

@@zaprodk you can have one coordinator in a Zigbee network, but you can have multiple routers/repeaters, though. That would help extend the range and support more devices. Zigbee2MQTT apparently supports multiple networks, which might be interesting. Upstairs and downstairs network with optimal placement of the antenna?

@digiblurDIY 29 күн бұрын

You just need a few more mains powered devices or one or two of these as routers and expand the network.

@unmesh59 21 күн бұрын

I'm using a USB implementation of a CC2652P configurator in my HA+Z2M setup and the SLZB-06 has some interesting features that make it attractive to upgrade. Would I have to rebuild my Zigbee network from scratch, though, or is there a smooth migration path available if I get the CC2652P version?

@digiblurDIY 21 күн бұрын

That's super easy... I just helped someone in Discord with this. There's a process that you migrate the the IEEE address from the old adapter to the new, change the settings in Z2M and start it back up and everything pairs right up.

@unmesh59 20 күн бұрын

@@digiblurDIY Awesome! I will find and copy the relevant instructions from Discord and save them for later

@digiblurDIY 20 күн бұрын

@unmesh59 search IEEE on my Discord as I pasted it there for future searching when I needed it.

@unmesh59 20 күн бұрын

@@digiblurDIY Found it! Where are you getting the 2024 dated firmware?

@digiblurDIY 20 күн бұрын

This thread github.com/Koenkk/Z-Stack-firmware/discussions/496

@jackipiegg Ай бұрын

12:09 Does this work without HA or when HA is down? Could you make a video with zigbee (sensors/remotes) and tasmota "RULES", from what I gather that could run independently without any HA. Is that true?

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

you could do Zigbee2MQTT and NodeRed or something if HA was down. As long as MQTT and Z2M ran on a different host.

@jackipiegg Ай бұрын

@@digiblurDIY Would be great if you made a tasmota "rules" video on zigbee. I'm reading the official tasmota stuff and I'm totally lost.

@digiblurDIY 29 күн бұрын

There's no Tasmota stuff here in this setup.

@macster1000 Ай бұрын

Do you know if this solution also works with ZHA as well?

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Yes I tested it with ZHA in this video.

@THEG12EG Ай бұрын

Isn't another reason to get this if your running a a hypervisor e.g proxmox you can have backup vm's you can restore on any server and not have to worry about physically connecting your dongle

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Yup! And no pass through stuff to deal with.

@THEG12EG Ай бұрын

@@digiblurDIY that's the reason I need this 😆

@Tntdruid Ай бұрын

Can you jump from the sonoff plus stick to this one whit no problems?

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Depends on what you are using software wise and what chipset and what chipset you want to go to.

@Tntdruid Ай бұрын

@@digiblurDIY I won a SLZB-06, from Bearder Tinker giveaway.

@Tntdruid 29 күн бұрын

@@digiblurDIY Stopped Z2M and did a backup, add the config stuff from the SMLight SLZB-06, Now its works whit no problems!

@digiblurDIY 29 күн бұрын

@Tntdruid nice! Migrating between cc2652 chips is pretty simple. Sometimes devices need a pair again due to the IEEE address change but I just rip and see what needs a kick.

@Tntdruid 29 күн бұрын

@@digiblurDIY All my 71 ZigBee devices found the new cordinator.

@michaelsterling3180 Ай бұрын

Do you think this would work if it was inside the ceiling rather than mounted to it? I don’t think my wife would love the look of it on our ceiling 😂

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Yeah as long as your ceiling isn't metal and grounded.

@george_gav24 Ай бұрын

Lol was thinking about that too

@TheRealAnthony_real 28 күн бұрын

somebody bought the whole stock already ..

@digiblurDIY 28 күн бұрын

Try this one? s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Dk3tykB (watch the flavor selection on the page)

@TheRealAnthony_real 28 күн бұрын

@@digiblurDIY bought 2 from the other link in russian/Ukrainian ?

@jmr Ай бұрын

Who else has one? Next digi live he should have a guest with one. Then connect it to a lightbulb at his house over Wireguard. It would be a killer demo. 😂

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Yes! That would be awesome. I need to check out the speed of things. I'm sure it should be fine with 100ms or lower speeds.

@jeremyjedynak Ай бұрын

A Zigbee-to-Ethernet bridge like the one shown in this video is better than a traditional Zigbee USB dongle in a cluster environment where the HomeAssistant VM could failover to a different physical host and automatically reconnect to the bridge. An alternative would be to physically move the Zigbee USB adapter to the new host whenever a failover occurs, but that obviously wouldn't be automatic.

@digiblurDIY Ай бұрын

Absolutely! I know people have usb pass thru issue as well and it makes it easy. Definitely a must for a cluster setup.

@oriolis08 Ай бұрын

I have Home Assistant running in a proxmox cluster and love that the VM can run in any Node without any change on the config.

@jeremyjedynak Ай бұрын

@@oriolis08Are you also using a Zigbee-to-Ethernet bridge like the one in this video?

@oriolis08 Ай бұрын

@@jeremyjedynak Yes, model SLZB-06M running Z2M without issues for five months aprox.