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Gateway versus Dongle (lemmy.tf)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/homeassistant

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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?

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[–] StefanT 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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

Thank you

[–] bigredgiraffe 1 points 1 year ago

I’ll second this for sure, I have been using zigbee2mqtt for several years with several different dongles and it is great.