Zigbee Coordinators (& Thread too) in 2025

What's the state of supported Zigbee but also Thread coordinators in 2025? What you should avoid and what options you have. We will look at USB and Ethernet coordinators plus talk about possible future development.

And yes, almost all of them today work with both ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT.

List of supporter adapters for Zigbee2MQTT (and ZHA):
https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adap...

slae.sh Texas Instrument CC2652RB coordinator:
https://slae.sh/projects/cc2652/

Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus (P) TI CC2652P:
https://itead.cc/product/sonoff-zigbe... (*)

Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle E SL EFR32MG21:
https://itead.cc/product/zigbee-3-0-u... (*)

Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1/SkyConnect SL EFR32MG21 :
https://www.home-assistant.io/connect...

ZigStar UZG-01 TI CC2652P7:
https://uzg.zig-star.com/product/

SMLight Tect SLZB Ethernet coordinators:
https://smlight.tech/

00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Zigbee coordinators - about them
03:33 - DON'T BUY TI CC2531
04:20 - My main coordinator slae.sh CC2652RB
05:51 - Sonoff Donge P & Dongle E
07:26 - Home Assistant ZBT-1 or SkyConnect
11:25 - ZigStar UZG-01
13:39 - SMLight SLZB coordinators
15:04 - Recommendations?
17:12 - Best one?
19:29 - Final recap and thoughts

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