@Gamester17 wrote:
ITEAD Studio (of Sonoff fame) now sells this linked Zigbee USB dongle for only $4 US-dollars, it is based on a Texas Instruments CC2531 chip and has no enclosure or external antenna but comes pre-flashed with a Zigbee coordinator firmware that should make it compatible and ready-to-use directly with several computer-based DIY home automation controllers/hubs, including Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.itead.cc/cc2531-usb-dongle.html
That firmware which comes preloaded on those should make it out-of-the-box compatible with the Zigbee2mqtt gateway with Home Assistant or on its own, as well as the native ZHA integration built-into Home Assistant (which is compatible with many different Zigbee adapters from multiple manufacturers, without Zigbee2mqtt).
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/
It should, however, be noted that while both Zigbee2mqtt and the ZHA integration in Home Assistant can be generally be considered stable today, the newly added support for these type of Texas Instrument CC chip-based Zigbee adapters is still very new and only classed as experimental thus not yet stable so I would only recommend these dongles with ZHA to developers wanting to help or experiment right now.
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