How to use the Sonoff Zigbee Bridge with Home Assistant - Tasmota
Check out these two videos we did on Zigbee fundamentals - Video #1 - Video #2 I reviewed the Sonoff Zigbee Bridge a few months ago in a video and was excited to see it had an ESP82xx chipset onboard. This meant there was a glimmer of hope it could be flashed with open source local control firmware such as Tasmota ! That time has come! The genius developers with Tasmota have done their magic again. An inexpensive device you can add to Home Assistant as a Zigbee controller. No YAML, no custom plugins, no MQTT. One of the major advantages is being able to place it closer to your Zigbee devices which is especially helpful if you have your Home Assistant box in the basement or buried back in some closet. Behold the ZHA Integration below. UPDATE March 2021: iTead also is now selling their USB 3.0 dongle that uses the same chip as the Zigbee Bridge. It is preflashed with correct firmware out of the box that can also b...