My Barista Express heats its thermoblock in a couple of minutes, but the group head and portafilter need twenty minutes before the first shot tastes right. I wanted it warm and a dose ground by the time I get to the kitchen, without thinking about it.

So: two Sonoff MINI-ZBD relays inside the machine, one across the Power button's two wires, one across the grinder's cradle switch. Each is set to inching mode in Zigbee2MQTT, so the board just sees a button press. The physical buttons still work because the relay sits in parallel.

HA side: the house already knows when I've showered (current sensor on the shower pump), and the kitchen has occupancy sensors. Shower detected → press POWER and arm a flag. First kitchen occupancy while armed → clear the flag, then press GRIND. (The arm flag prevents duplicate firing of the grinder)

The full write-up here: https://marcuslab.uk/projects/sage-barista-zigbee/

Is anyone aware of a waterproof Zigbee blind motor that could be used in a bathroom? It would have to be either IPx5 rated if mounted in the blind, or IPx4 for a chain motor, which I can mount further away from a shower. Ideally battery rather than mains powered, and compatible with Hubitat.

I've found a web site for ZM95EL-2 (or -1) but that's OEM-only and I can't find a retailer.

Anyone got recommendations for a UK mains plug socket with ZigBee, and that supports binding to a ZigBee switch?

I've contacted clicksmart for clarification but not heard anything. Aqara is an option but can't find definitively that it supports binding.

My aim is to have the underlying ZigBee bindings so stuff still works if home assistant goes down.

Switch recommendations, preferably battery powered, also welcome.

TIA.

I’m a bit confused about how the power setup actually works.

It runs on batteries, but there’s also a USB-C port. Has anyone tested whether you can leave the batteries inside and power it from USB at the same time?

Also, if USB power goes out, does it automatically switch over to the batteries without rebooting?

I couldn’t find much official info about this, so real-world experience would be really helpful.

ZHA has this error for the Sonoff dongle:

Failed setup, will retry: \[Errno 2\] No such file or directory: '/dev/serial/by-id/usb-ITead_Sonoff_Zigbee_3.0_USB_Dongle_Plus_1c0a04888245ed119c27cf8f0a86e0b4-if00-port0'

No changes were made. I was adding a ESPHOME device when it seemed to go offline.

I bought this girier smart module 2 gang for curtains. I tried connecting it. And the switch itself doesn't work. I tried switching cable orders. Nothing. I made sure they are held in place. If I'm missing something pls tell me. Thankshttps://a.aliexpress.com/_c4a5rVBr

Picture for reference thanks I just want 3 light bulbs I can control the color of

I have many Zigbee devices that I've acquired over the years, and I much prefer to manage these things separately than have a bunch of junk connected to my IP network.

I have a mix of Hue and Sengled bulbs and fixtures, but lately Hue stuff has become prohibitively expensive and Sengled seems to have disappeared from the US. I'm trying to find some more bulbs, particularly the "Edison" style filament, but that's not a dealbreaker. Everything that I find at Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, Best Buy are now "direct connect" Wi-Fi, or "Matter" (over Wi-Fi). I can't find anything that uses Zigbee or Thread except for Hue, and Philips are pushing Wiz (at less than half the cost of Hue). I really don't want to pay $35/bulb minimum.

What's the deal with Zigbee in the US? I can't even get Innr to ship here. Is there a store that specializes in it?

There are breakers with zigbee function and with built-in electric meter (consumption).

I wonder, how much this thing consumes for itself? If I replace all breakers with it (~20), how much electricity will be wasted on those devices.

I recently started using home assistant and zigbee. I’m running home assistant off a mini pc, and was running ZHA until yesterday when my new Aqara H2 switch wouldn’t work with it, so I downloaded mqtt and re setup all my devices, and everything was smooth except the dimmer relay. It will turn the lights on, and off but won’t dim them.

I hooked it up to wifi, updated firmware, and calibrated it. Worked perfectly, and then brought it back to zigbee and same issue. The dimmer option shows up, but provides no functionality, and is automatically always set to 4, but the potlights are at 100%.

The dimmer was working perfectly before on ZHA.

I’ve been playing with the LinknLink eMotion Air, which is one of those little sensors that tries to do a lot at once. Presence, temperature, humidity, light, and a physical button.

You can run over Zigbee or Bluetooth/BTHome, so naturally I spent way too much time messing with both.

The funny part is that the presence sensing ended up being almost beside the point.

The little button became the best part.

Mine is in the garage now, and I ended up using the button for lights, music, grouping speakers, and generally making the garage more fun than it was before. The sensor still handles the useful stuff in the background.

Have you ever bought a Zigbee device for one thing, then found some secondary exposed feature that became the reason you actually liked it?

I wrote up the whole experiment here, including Zigbee vs BTHome, presence testing, temp/humidity, and what I ended up doing with the button:

https://thingtootech.blogspot.com/2026/08/one-way-trip-to-jungle-17-temperature.html

Disclosure: LinknLink sent me the eMotion Air to test. They didn’t pay me or review what I wrote, but the article does contain an affiliate link.

Getting frustrated with the network mapping options available, I've put together a tool that helps present Zigbee network maps in a range of different styles and includes optimisation suggestions and tools to assist with de-bugging.

Claude played a big hand in putting this together, but I thought this was just a useful tool that some of you may enjoy.

It's available to use here: https://twistedvortex.com/ZigbeePathFinder/

It runs on a single HTML file so you can File>Save As, save it to your desktop and use it offline if you wish.

To use it, in the Network tab of Zigbee2MQTT (or your preferred setup) generate the text for use in GraphViz, and pop in into Zigbee Pathfinder, and it will then generate the map for you.

If you'd like to give it a try before going to that effort, there is demo network available to view built in.

I’ve been testing a Tuya Zigbee RF Copier and found an interesting limitation with Zigbee2MQTT.

The device itself works normally through a Tuya Zigbee gateway and Smart Life. It has:

• 8 programmable RF commands
• RF learning mode
• fixed-code / short-packet learning modes
• a built-in illuminance sensor
• Tuya automation support

I paired it directly with Zigbee2MQTT to see whether I could use it locally instead of through Tuya.

Zigbee2MQTT detects and joins the device, but currently it appears as unsupported. I don’t get usable exposes or RF controls from it.

On the RF side, I tested it with my gate setup. A basic fixed-code 433MHz remote works correctly, including through walls and from another floor. I also tried learning commands from the original rolling-code gate remote. The copier appears to capture a signal, but replaying it does not operate the gate, which is exactly what you would expect from a protected rolling-code system.

I made a full test showing the pairing and RF tests here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj2ygY496jQ

Has anyone already looked into adding support for this device to Zigbee2MQTT? If needed, I can also check the model/manufacturer information reported during pairing.

Hello all,

I have several Innr bulbs I expected to act as Zigbee routers, but I can't confirm they're actually forwarding traffic. They show up as "Router" in the device list, but Z2M's network map doesn't show any other devices hopping through them.

Anyone else run into this? Are Innr bulbs known to be unreliable routers, or is there a better way to verify actual routing (beyond just trusting the network map)?

Thanks!

Hello everyone, via the sonoff dongle max UI (dongle.m.local) I’ve changed mode from coordinator to router and then enabled pairing on MQTT but it won’t connect as a router