It was only thanks to reading some stuff on here that I discovered Zigbee and as a result, bought a dongle. However I then realised that I didn’t have a home assistant setup or even anything to plug my Zigbee dongle into. I reoriented myself and bought a Zigbee gateway and then added a bunch of Zigbee devices to it.
Christmas however finally came around and I finally got my Raspberry Pi, so now as I’m about to finally sort out my dream Home Assistant setup, I’m left with the question, do I get rid of the gateway and just use the ZB Dongle E or do I use my existing gateway? What do you all recommend?
I would go with the dongle (and sell the gateway). Zigbee2mqtt works really well for me.
But you will have to add all your Zigbee devices to this new coordinator.
Thank you
I’ll second this for sure, I have been using zigbee2mqtt for several years with several different dongles and it is great.
