SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus Gateway, Universal Zigbee USB Gateway with Antenna for Home Assistant, Open HAB etc, Wireless Zigbee 3.0 USB Adapter(1 Pack)

Works as expected. Should make it easier to swap wifi channels especially since the 2.4Ghz band doesnt have many center frequencies to choose from. Could easily interfere with wifi devices.

I immediately used this product with Zigbee2MQTT so all of my opinions are for this setup. I followed the instruction for this adapter on the Zigbee2MQTT website (and may have found a YouTube to give me some more confidence) before proceeding to flash the firmware. The written instructions were a little...rough (I love downloading random .docx files, but YOLO and Linux). If followed, they work and getting the stick to work with Zigbee2MQTT (Home Assistant add-on) was also fairly painless. Make sure you understand the network options in Zigbee2MQTT before setting everything up. Its a good idea to personalize your network key and much easier to do before you start including a bunch of devices. I have about 8 smart plugs and a couple of Philips Hue lamps as a mesh and 12 end devices on my network. So far I mostly use my Zigbee network for motion/temperature/lux sensors (since the Hue ones are amazing), door locks, and a couple of cheapo thermostats that work pretty well. The plugs are mostly for the mesh (I think I have a HomePod plugged into one for some reason) and some lamps in an inflexible room. This stick with Zigbee2MQTT has been a solid combination. Not every device has worked perfectly every time, but every device Ive bought has worked at least as well as it states in the official Zigbee2MQTT device list. Read the device information carefully before you purchase anything, there may be caveats. My toddler can inundate the network with RGB changes through my phone and I rarely see any lag. I plan to keep adding Philips Hue devices to this network since they have been so solid. I prefer not having to rely on their bridge (3rd party controlled dependency) and this setup got me into the Hue devices fairly painlessly using open source software that I can actually decipher.

Had an old Zigbee 1.2 adapter that would drop my Aqara sensors after a couple hours. This adapter worked out of the box and fixed the drop outs. Running Hassio on a RPI4.

From my research on a few different forums and reading reviews I trust, this was the best Zigbee gateway for Home Assistant. It works. I have no issues to report.

Uses a modern chip from TI. Comes in a good quality aluminum case. Great bang for buck to bootstrap or extend (with the router firmware) your Zigbee network. - Update your firmware as documented on Zigbee2MQTT website. Texas Instruments is continually fixing issues and improving performance. - Do not directly attach this to a computer but use a USB 3.0 extension cable to increase coverage - Do not crank the transmit power up without understanding the consequences. It is more likely to make your network less reliable than increase coverage.

I am using this stick on a Windows 11 mini-computer running a Home Assistant VM setup. It works flawlessly. It picks up devices pretty far away from the stick as long as you have it plugged into a USB extension cable to reduce interference from the computer. Home Assistant immediately picked up the stick and configured it with no problems. Im very happy with this purchase.

Using zigbee2mqtt with homeassistant on a pi, I only had to change the configuration of the ports (/dev/USB0 vs /dev/ACM0) to replace my old zigbee stick with this one. This one is a better radio with more range, preconfigured with the right firmware.

Works well. Be sure to upgrade the firmware.

I got it to use with home assistant. It flashed quickly and had it working in about 10 minutes.

Works well with Zigbee2MQTT and range is at least twice that of the older CC2531 modules I used to use.