IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I actually upgraded from a Conbee stick to the official home assistant one to support them… But the official home assistant one is significantly worse.
A few devices like buttons were discovered by the Conbee and worked perfectly fine, but the home assistant refuses to recognize their functionality.
Since I already migrated all my devices, I am not going back, but I would recommend anyone against purchasing the official home assistant sticks. Get the cheaper stuff instead.
buttons were discovered by the Conbee and worked perfectly fine, but the home assistant refuses to recognize their functionality.
That’s not the hardware stick; that’s the controller software stack. Sounds like you switched from deConz to ZHA to go with the hardware change. In which case, this is all fixed by using Zigbee2MQTT instead of HA’s built-in ZHA. Z2M supports more hardware and features than ZHA.
Yes probably but ZHA worked fine with the Conbee stick and I do not feel like migrating. I like the simplicity of ZHA a lot, it is simple to add devices. With the deConz software it supported all the buttons too. I am sad that ZHA has such poor software support it should not be that difficult in my mind.
I’ve ran both. Z2M is harder to set up but a lot of guides to do so. Once set up they are both pretty simple to use
damo_omad@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I previously used ZHA and it worked great, until I had a new device which wasn’t supported and I couldn’t get the quirk to work. Bought a PoE ZigStar device and switched to Z2M (ran both simultaneously while switching over) and everything works great and is supported.