This PoE Zigbee Coordinator is Perfect for Zigbee2MQTT & ZHA!

[@camerongray1515]

Buy the HamGeek HMG-01 Plus PoE: - Amazon: geni.us/rYyTVo - AliExpress: geni.us/3BB7lk

[@timregan-morris5051]

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[@JellyLancelot]

The amount of people in the comments not watching the first 5 minutes of the video. Guys, he goes through and explains all his reasoning in the video. Watch the video.

[@camerongray1515]

The joys of producing tech videos... You can spend a tonne of time setting out your exact reasoning for doing something a certain way, or using a certain product, and people will still come along and tell you that you should have done something differently or used a different product, completely ignoring your reasoning or requirements!

[@labbiee]

It's always a great day when you upload!

[@lostwebb]

Great video as usual Cameron! Have been thinking about doing this so I can put it in a central location in the house! Great project and thanks for putting the video together!

[@rapha5586]

I also just switched from the same dongle to this coordinator. So far im loving it. Btw there was a new firmware update for the esp released ca 2 days ago. I could update to it without issues and it fixed some stuff which is great. Really a nice coordinator.

[@xbmcnut]

Thanks for the awesome video. This is a clone of the very popular ZigStar UZG but be reminded that there is a known issue with the 20230507 (latest) firmware for the P7 variant (as I have) where some of your devices may just drop off your network for no reason whatsoever. It's under investigation but I don't believe there is a fix just yet so I'd be wary of transferring all of my devices to this version. Hey, at least it easy to change back!

[@MiggyManMike]

I may have to look into one of these, the usb stick sticking out of my g8 microserver is a bit silly, not to mention mapping a stick into a container is a minor pain :D

[@ThomasLockney]

I've got a very similar setup, but using the TubesZB CC2652 P2 POE model, which has been extremely reliable and a great improvement to my setup (I also run everything else under Proxmox). I had trouble finding who actually makes the Hamgeek device (granted, I didn't spent a huge amount of time digging), but the TubesZB device info is all readily available and open source.

[@JonatanCastro]

Interesting... I got the same controller but from another brand, though the web panel is exactly the same: ZigStar UZG-01

[@JamesTenniswood]

I have to do something very similar today, so a well timed video. Thanks!

[@sunnydavies3990]

Great video mate, have you had a look at something like the Flint 2 and running smoothwan on it?

[@kbhasi]

🤯 I didnt know such a device existed!! I could see myself getting one (to replace the same model of Sonoff USB ZigBee adaptor) if I could find one that was also able to handle the weird Home Assistant Bluetooth stuff that seem to only work with certain chipsets, but the closest I was able to find so far were some Tuya IoT Platform stuff.

[@billhgong]

I thought this (alongside its close relative ZSigStar UZG-01) would be a cheaper alternative to the SMLight SLZB-06 series but it turns out this one is significantly more expensive.

[@chenks76]

i looked at the amazon listing price and though £85 way too expensive, however the aliexpress price is around £38

[@mercenaruss]

SLZB-06 is based on ZigStar Firmware for LAN Gateway. Indeed Hamgeek is a copy of ZigStar UZG-01,firmware is open source.

[@dougle03]

As its on the network, it would be good to see you do a wireshark run just to see if it's trying to call home on the stock FW...?

[@Charlie8913]

I just plugged the sonoff usb into my proxmox server and forwarded the usb to a vm and from there into the Zigbee2MQTT docker container. But yeah over network has some advanteges as it needs no forwarding and can easily be physically moved somewhere else closer to your zigbee devices..

[@rapha5586]

Extra note are zou gonna use the sonoff dongle as a router? Was considering it

[@shanewilliams2956]

Can these be flashed with router software, or could you just run multiple of these for more coverage?

[@sleepingwonder]

Just buy the smlite SLZB 06 and be over with it . What’s more you can use it as coordinator or router

[@camerongray1515]

They are essentially identical devices running basically the same firmware on almost the same hardware, I simply preferred the form factor of this device.

[@formatBCE]

@@camerongray1515 You're wrong. SLZB have newer, superior version of software, and several different Zigbee chips (EFR, CP, CP P7 etc) to chose from. What you shown is pretty generic and outdated.

[@mindshelfpro]

Is there a Zwave stand alone device? I use a USB dongle at the moment with a physical HA box in the centre of my home. I want to go to a virtual HA but need zwave in a central location

[@Techlifeandmore]

Did you end up moving Zigbee to MQTT over directly to your server on a VM or did you move it into Home Assistant as an add-on?

[@camerongray1515]

I haven't had the time to do either yet, but ideally I want to use the HA Add-on but would run it as a separate VM if the add-on gave me any issues.

[@themanologue2791]

Because its Ethernet, not USB, will it work with Home Assistant and Zigbee2Mqtt simultaneously? As I use USB to HA on proxmox, I need to buy a second ZigBee adapter to run both. It seems like I could buy this hamgeek and donate my USB one (to seed a new smart home!)

[@themanologue2791]

Your yt handle ends with 1515, which is 'strawberry strawberry' in Japanese! Thanks for the great channel

[@mikemannox4191]

Thanks for the review, well it seems to me you should return this item and buy a SMLight SLZB-06 instead (I think I will). Other HA reviewers seem to give the SMLight SLZB-06 positive reviews.

[@camerongray1515]

Why should I return the item I have and buy a near identical alternative with essentially the same hardware and software that would accomplish the same task equally as well as this device? I saw the SLZB-06 when I was researching these devices but simply preferred the form factor of the one I have here.

[@harleyarmstrong5947]

How do you integrate home assistant with node red? I thought they were competitors, and both own the zigbee2mqtt instance.

[@camerongray1515]

They all work really well together, neither software "claims" the Zigbee2MQTT instance. Zigbee2MQTT talks to an MQTT broker and then both HA and NodeRED also communicate via the same broker. Then I use the Home Assistant nodes in NodeRED to control HA from NodeRED and vice-versa. With my setup, I use HA to provide dashboards and to communicate with certain devices and services using its integrations, but then I use NodeRED to handle most automations and complex logic or for devices where there isn't a HA integration (e.g. communicating through MQTT or a Telnet/HTTP API). One day I plan to make a video on the full setup from a software perspective.

[@haxie4516]

Oh thats neat

[@tecniktim1208]

Best

[@hgbugalou]

I mean, technically that gateway is just another random linux device laying around. 🤣 It's still pretty neat though. I need to move to HA but I havent quite had the time and the smartthings platform works for what I do. I still do not like relying on samsung though.

[@ThomasLockney]

This device is not running Linux. It's not even running a full OS, just a very lightweight software stack. Besides the other benefits (less software to maintain), this also means they start up VERY quickly and are very reliable with fewer things able to go wrong.

[@WX4CB]

Sorry for sounding a little ignorant, but you want to get rid of the pi and move zb2mqtt onto a vm because its taking up space etc but you are just replacing it with something that does the exact same thing that your pi is doing? I dont get it. Why bother replacing the pi?

[@timregan-morris5051]

Literally explains his reason at first minute...

[@WX4CB]

Literally didnt read what i wrote. My point was he is replacing the pi with something doing the same thing as the pi. So why replace it

[@timregan-morris5051]

@@WX4CBI read what you wrote, they do the same but he's replacing the Pi as he wants more reliability and the ease of backing up a VM. I'd be keen to do similar. Native PoE would also be a plus.

[@camerongray1515]

The issue with the Pi wasn't the space, it was the fact that it ran a relatively complex software setup that required maintenance, updates and configuration backups. I'd rather move that to my server where I have the ability to snapshot the VM with the VMs. This device on the other hand runs simple embedded firmware that's basically "set and forget"

[@JellyLancelot]

@@WX4CB he literally spends the first 3-4 minutes of the video listing and explaining all the reasons why he’s doing it… forget reading, did you even watch the video?

[@kjeldschouten-lebbing6260]

You don't want as many tiny linux devices around the house... Okey, so why are you replacing one tiny linux device with... another tiny linux device? :')

[@camerongray1515]

The raspberry pi had a relatively complex software setup that potentially required maintenance and configuration backup in case the device ever failed. This device on the other hand doesn't even run Linux - it just runs very simple embedded firmware that shouldn't require any real ongoing maintenance.

[@GMKiko]

Linux firmware 😂

[@yousaf.saleem]

compared to sm06?

[@camerongray1515]

They are very similar - essentially the same hardware and run very similar software - The SLZB-06 runs a fork of the Zigstar firmware that this runs. I picked this device instead purely because I preferred the form factor, the SLZB-06 also looks like a great device.

[@formatBCE]

@@camerongray1515 not anymore.

[@christophrechtlehner]

Why on earth would you promote a knockoff product that costs TWICE as much as the original by Zigstar.

[@indymind]

My comment about this device has been deleted. Avoid. It is a copy of another device.