Spaylia

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What's the best Zigbee dongle/hub? in c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum
[–] Spaylia@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I would guess CC1352 is the older cheaper whereas CC2652 is the more powerful one?

What's the best Zigbee dongle/hub? in c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum
[–] Spaylia@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Does it work well? No disconnection or anything?

What's the best Zigbee dongle/hub? in c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum
[–] Spaylia@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

By any chance, would you have a Sync Box that's working too?

What's the best Zigbee dongle/hub? in c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum
[–] Spaylia@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, it needs to be HomeKit certified. Would there be a generic Zigbee bridge that's HomeKit certified?

What's the best Zigbee dongle/hub? in c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum
[–] Spaylia@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Your first two options listed are simply ZigBee coordinators, not "hubs": you'd need to run ZHA or ZigBee2mqtt on a computer

So a coordinator requires a software to interface it, whereas a hub is standalone (given that it has an app or something)?

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What's the best Zigbee dongle/hub? (alien.top)
 

Hi,

Philips will soon require an account to use their shitty app so I'd like to move away from them. I also have a few IKEA Tradfri stuff.

I look around on this sub and a few others and it seems like these are the best options:

I think a hub is better than a dongle so I don't have to use Home Assistant and I can keep using HomeKit as before. If I have to, I don't mind Home Assistant but it was very clunky when I tried it a few years ago, not sure how it evolved.

Although here are my criteria:

  • It must not require an account,
  • I'd love something that works with the Hue Sync Box. Is it realistic? Maybe with hass-emulated-hue? I don't mind replacing it if there's something as good,
  • It'd be nice to be able to use HomeKit.

Feel free to share your experiences!