Home Assistant How To Set Up Zigbee 2022
In this video we show you how to set up Home Assistant to use Zigbee smart devices
Home Assistant is a free and open source software for home automation
Zigbee is an open standard wireless protocol which is designed for smart home devices and Home Assistant can take advantage of this if you have the right hardware and you know how to configure it
But it can interfere with the network your computers and phones are using because it uses the same 2.4Ghz, channel 1
It's more secure than using Wi-Fi smart devices though, because Zigbee devices don't have direct access to your computer network and better yet these devices can't be compromised over the Internet or leak information out to it
Zigbee is also more efficient as the devices can build a wireless mesh to give them better wireless coverage and reliability than Wi-Fi would
Compare that with your Wi-Fi network where adding more devices only slows thing down
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Steps Taken
1) Hardware
Home Assistant needs a controller to access Zigbee devices
A popular choice is the Phoscon ConBee II controller
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Bear in mind Zigbee operates at the same 2.4Ghz as your Wi-Fi and uses channel 1
Unless your access point can detect congestion and automatically switch to a different channel, you may experience interference
If so, you may want to re-configure your AP it to use a different channel
2) Software installation
Ideally Home Assistant will recognise the device and you can follow the wizard from the notification to install the software
Otherwise you will have to manually install the Zigbee Home Automation integration
3) Integration planning
Zigbee can form a wireless mesh so you should plan ahead for adding devices
Mains powered ones that can act as relays will be more stable and reliable and should be installed first
Aim to install devices closet to Home Assistant first, work your way out then add battery powered ones
4) Include a device
To add a device to our Zigbee network, we first need to put Home Assistant into pairing mode
Then put the device into pairing mode
5) Exclude a device
If you no longer need a device you will want to remove it from the Zigbee network
There is no two way communication needed, simply remove the device from Home Assistant
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:02 Hardware
01:56 Software installation for recognised devices
04:09 Manual software installation
08:00 Integration planning
08:55 Add device
13:44 Remove device
14:35 Summary
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