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What are the benefits of zigbee2mqtt over ZHA and is it worth migrating? (self.homeassistant)

submitted 1 year ago by Napatwork to c/homeassistant

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I've over 40 zigbee devices and am currently using ZHA but keep seeing people recommending using zigbee2mqtt. But I can't work out if it's worth the time re-importing all the devices or not.

What are the benefits of using zigbee2mqtt over ZHA and is it easy to move over if that's the best way to go?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When I first got a Zigbee USB stick I tried both out and picked z2m because it was easier to do automations in HA at the time. This was because the Zigbee device I was using (the Cube) and the actions of the Cube were in attributes is ZHA and were actions in Z2M.

Since then I remember buying some Zigbee devices from Lidl which were like a suprise reveal, it was all over the HA sub. Problem was, they weren't supported because they had just been released.

A couple of days later I saw that they were supported in z2m beta so I just switched to that for a bit, and maybe a week later they worked in the stable branch. I was amazed at how quickly a brand new device got support and have never even considered going over to ZHA.