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I have been waiting for them to release the Zigbee equivalent to their ZWA-2. Ordered one.
Does anybody use Zigbee directly in Home Assistant? I'm currently still on Zigbee2MQTT but I'm wondering if I should switch over to the Zigbee integration in Home Assistant.
Small house, I use zigbee directly with the zbt1 and it's great
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ZHA with 50+ devices from Ikea, Aqara, Frient and Hue over SLZB-06M. Works flawlessly.
Yeah I use ZHA, what would be the difference after switching over? Is one better or faster?
When they first released ZHA the interface was very barebones compared to Z2M. I saw the current Home Assistant interface in their stream on the ZBT-2 and it looks a lot more like a proper Zigbee interface now.
I don't think there is going to be much of a performance difference between ZHA and Z2M, mostly just how you interact with it.
Affirmative. Well I only used ZHA but came from Philips(Signify) Hue only system, so don't have much comparison but I did have some expectations. Overal setup and usage has been fine, but ofc N=1 and my setup is not your setup :) .
My setup: 2 floors, ~70m2 ~15 lights ~10 switches ~10 motion sensors
Still have a ConBee 2 for zigbee and it works fine in my house. Although I do have a fair amount of smart plugs, that act as repeaters, around the house.