Install Zigbee2MQTT THE RIGHT WAY in Home Assistant!

Sonoff has released their new version of their Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus, the ZBDongle-E. And Home Assistant released the SkyConnect. In this video, I'll show you how to set these sticks up in Home Assistant and share some tips to help you get the most out of this Zigbee stick. Although these sticks are currently classified as experimental on the Zigbee2MQTT site, I still took the plunge. I've tested these sticks extensively over the past few days and even transferred my entire house to the Sonoff Zigbee Dongle-E. For this, I linked the stick to Zigbee2MQTT in Home Assistant. I'll show you how you can do that first. At the end of the video, I share my experiences and give tips to make these sticks work as good as possible. This tutorial is also valid for the Sonoff Dongle-P.

NOTE: if you use the ember firmware, you need to replace the adapter line by

serial:
adapter: ember

NOTE 2: If you upgraded to Zigbee2MQTT 2.x and use the Zigbee Dongle-P, then add adapter: zstack in the serial field of your Zigbee2MQTT config. Also, add this line to the configuration.yaml in the Zigbee2MQTT folder.

If you experience issues, then this video might help: Solving Zigbee Problems in Home Assistant | Ultimate Guide
   • Solving Zigbee Problems in Home Assis...  

Make sure you didn't enable multiprotocol on the SkyConnect. If you have done this before, follow this page to flash to the original Zigbee firmware: https://skyconnect.home-assistant.io/...

You can update the Sonoff Dongle-E using this video:    • How To Update the Sonoff Dongle E to ...  

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The custom repository that you have to add to the add-on store: https://github.com/zigbee2mqtt/hassio...
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:23 Get the stick working in Home Assistant
00:01:31 Create A User in Home Assistant
00:01:59 Find what the id of the ZBDongle-E is
00:02:26 Set up MQTT - Mosquitto Broker
00:03:24 Install Zigbee2MQTT in Home Assistant
00:05:16 Open Zigbee2MQTT
00:05:26 Pair devices in Zigbee2MQTT
00:06:04 Change the name of the devices
00:06:37 Check the devices in Home Assistant
00:07:21 Where to Buy the Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus - ZBDongle-E
00:07:46 Tips to get the ZBDongle-E to work as good as possible

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