🔌 Unleash Seamless Zigbee Connectivity with ConBee II: The Ultimate Universal USB Gateway Review

Running within 6 months with Nortek HUSBZB-1 and shut down with Zigbee2mqtt 35o/CC05 when using a Conbee ii con mi Home Assistance en mi Raspberry4, y hasta el momento la experiencia ha sido muy buena ec cuanto a lo sencillo que es dar de alta dispositovos soportados, y lo facil que es integrar los mimos en HASSIO , tendr que usarlo mas tiempo para una calificacion y commentario mas adecuado pero al momento estoy feliz con la compra

Oh man this thing is great! I ran Home Assistant in a virtual machine on an old Mac Mini. I spent a lot of time researching this device and got tons of recommendations as it is a tool that really helps to integrate many devices from different brands more effectively to increase the level of my home automation. Setting up a virtual machine through VirtualBox was a little tricky, but once I did that and installed ZHA in Home Assistant, I was ready to go. A tip: When initially pairing Zigbee…

My 30 day return period has expired. And during those 30 days, I struggled with devices communicating with the key and Home Assistant. These are the 3 items you need to check to understand why something isn't working. I've had varying degrees of success coding, testing, and debugging. But nothing is stable. I ended up finding hundreds of complaints on the Home Assistant forums about this device being unreliable and the manufacturer ignoring all support requests. This is TERRIBLE as I have…

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…

What worried me the most was the range. Before that I used a Mijia hub to connect to Home Assistant with a custom Xiaomi add-on, but the range was very limited. I needed a location line or close to it for everything to work. I thought about getting additional hubs and just adding them in every room I wanted Zigbee sensors and switches in, but I quickly realized that this would be an expensive solution. So I decided to give it a try and wow the joystick was easy to set up and the range is…

Nice little adapter for Zigbee devices. However, as every buyer should know, you will need a USB extension cable to make it work. That means when you connect it to your Raspberry Pi, Laptop or Nuc. It doesn't recognize any of your Zigbee devices. Something about signal interference coming from a PIN code or a NUC or a laptop. WHY DON'T YOU SUPPLY AN EXTENSION CORD? Or make that adapter work "better" (as it should - that is, without wires)? Either way, once you plug it in within a few feet of…

Update December 2020 My ConBee II failed due to faulty hardware about a year before the day I bought it. I eventually discovered that the error was that this device was registered as connected to the USB host... and then immediately registered as disconnected! This cycle repeats itself forever and I can't use it! Normally it wouldn't matter much and I only guaranteed the unit as it comes with a 24 month guarantee/warranty as stated on their website; However, you are ignoring my question about…