SONOFF Universal Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus ZBDongle E Gateway with Antenna for Home Assistant, Open HAB etc, Support Data Flow Control

I use this with my homelab to control smart home devices from a variety of manufacturers from a centralised Home Assistant installation - it works across brands, detects new devices quickly, and required very little set up

I bought this item to run from a tiny pc which is running Home assistant to control all my devices at home. I found it well made and packaged nicely, and price-wise was very happy. No problems at all, straight out of the box it worked extremely well and picked up all the devices I needed it to. My home automation journey is just starting out but this dongle, paired with some sonoff zigbee repeaters is going to help a lot.

Bought this as a replacement for the Texas Instruments CC2531 as I kept getting drop outs using Zigbee2MQTT in conjunction with Homeassistant. I can say that I have not had a single drop out issue as a result of this zigbee gateway. While it was a bit of a hassle to migrate every device over (I have over 50) it was absolutely worth it to have them reliable within the interface. I believe there are some methods out there to export then import all your zigbee devices if you are migrating (To save you the headache I had). This was able to manage my zigbee mesh from an external garage to the house, obviously working in tandem with the zigbee router devices in my mesh. I do use it in combination with a USB extender as gets recommended online, however I don't know if that is providing much of a benefit. But goes to show how reliable and secure the connection is even through external walls. While this is a bit more expensive than some of the alternatives, the reliability is worth the money, as it will save you time further down the line.

A must-have for any smart-home enthusiast. Very easy to set up, integrates well with Home Assistant. It is device-agnostic, meaning that you can easily integrate both Sonoff and other manufacturer's Zigbee devices. It is very sturdy, and has a very strong and stable signal range.

Thw most integral part of my smart home...works great

Relatively easy to install Zigbee stick which I used relatively simply on a raspberry Pi with Home Assistant. Only thing to watch out for is to use it with a good quality USB extender cable to move it as far away from the ports on the device you are plugging it into for drastically better performance (and avoid plugging it into a USB 3 port).

works very well in conjunction with a Raspberry Pi

Plugged this in to my ProxMox server (virtualisation) and assigned it to my Home Assistant VM Detected immediately by the ZHA Zigbee plugin as an EZSP device Devices are discovered in seconds. If you're new to doing this without a manufacturer hub, just start a device search in ZHA and then hit the pairing button on the device. Coverage is fairly decent, but it's not covering my whole house. Have tried running it on a USB2 extension cable to avoid the rather well known Zigbee/USB3 interference problems that occur with all Zigbee dongles but in my case, it doesn't make much difference to the LQI or RSSI. Will be adding a couple of cheap Zigbee plugs in unused mains sockets around the house to act as Zigbee routers since all my other Zigbee's are either battery powered devices which don't extend the network, or in seperate manufacturer Zigbee networks that don't play nice together (I'm looking at you Hue and Wiser !).

Have used this with Home Assistant (Zigbee2MQTT) to run dozens of Zigbee devices and have been working great. Make sure to follow the recommended guidelines for optimal performance (i.e. using a USB2.0 extension to connect the device has solved a lot of my issues).

Absolutely no problem setting up, just plugged it in and was found by home assistant. Everything I have tried has paired straight away.

Great device, great support. I use it as a Zigbee gateway and it works really fast

Ett måste för HomeAssistant. Fungerar utan minsta problem med HomeAssistant

Zuverlässiger Zigbee-Coordinator – läuft perfekt mit Raspberry Pi 5 und Home Assistant Ich habe den SONOFF ZBDongle-E 3.0 USB Dongle gekauft, um meinen Zigbee-Netzwerk in Home Assistant aufzubauen – und zwar direkt am Raspberry Pi 5 (mit HA OS). Der Dongle kam vorinstalliert mit der Coordinator-Firmware (EZNet 6.10.3 oder ähnlich) und war quasi Plug-and-Play. Einfach in einen USB-Port am Pi gesteckt, Home Assistant hat ihn sofort erkannt (als /dev/serial/by-id/...), ZHA-Integration hinzugefügt – fertig. Kein Flashen nötig, keine Treiber-Probleme unter Linux/Raspbian, keine Abstürze oder Verbindungsabbrüche. Die Reichweite mit der externen Antenne ist wirklich gut (+20 dBm hilft spürbar), ich habe bisher über 30 Geräte (SONOFF-Sensoren, Steckdosen, Aqara usw.) ohne Router-Probleme integriert – alles stabil und schnell. Der Aluminium-Gehäuse schirmt super gegen Störungen ab (wichtig beim Pi, der ja elektromagnetisch nicht ganz sauber ist), und mit einem kurzen USB-Extension-Kabel (empfehle ich sowieso) sitzt er optimal entfernt vom Pi-Gehäuse. Für alle, die ein günstiges, aber solides Zigbee-Setup mit Home Assistant (ZHA oder Zigbee2MQTT) wollen: Top-Empfehlung! Preis-Leistung unschlagbar, und bei mir läuft seit Wochen 24/7 ohne einen einzigen Aussetzer. Sehr zufrieden – 5 Sterne ohne Wenn und Aber!