Review on 🔌 Unleash Seamless Zigbee Connectivity with ConBee II: The Ultimate Universal USB Gateway by Tim Purdie

Before Conbee II, I tried to use HUSBZB-1 in Home Assistant but couldn't detect any devices with it. Nothing but a buggy, annoying mess. Then I got CC2531 and used Zigbee2mqtt. Worked well enough, but the range on my devices was very poor, even though I mostly had repeaters on my ZigBee network, and adding devices meant reconfiguring and reloading HASS, which was far from ideal. Eventually the Conbee II was back in stock and I picked one up to see if it would alleviate my Zigbee woes. That's how it is! (Most of time). My devices now have an excellent signal and my network is mostly stable. Two of my outlets (both Tradfri) go offline every day but they also did this on Zigbee2mqtt so I suspect the problem is with the outlets rather than Conbee. Very happy with this purchase.