SONOFFZigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus Gateway, Universal Zigbee USB Gateway with Antenna for Home Assistant, IoBroker, Wireless Zigbee 3.0 USB Adapter(1 Pack)

Super easy to get set up in home assistant! Things connect to it very quickly! And the response time is very quick. I live in a small apartment so I can’t comment on range but I’m really happy! Made getting my Aqara things into home assistant really easy.

Bought this to test out Zigbee2MQTT in Home Assistant but I already had a ZHA radio in the same area which was having it's own issues and between that and Wifi interference, I didn't have a good experience - not that any of this was Sonoff's fault. Once I cleared up my Wifi issues, I moved to a POE Zigbee radio which solved my problems.The good news was that I didn't lose my investment in the Sonoff because you can flash it as a router instead of a main coordinator. Flashing was easy and straight forward and once I got it paired to my new network, it does an AWESOME job as a router - I now have great signal strength in the farthest corner of my house and paring the stuff I still had yet to migrate was a much better experience.

As someone new to Home Assistant, I was initially worried about choosing the right device—but this turned out to be perfect. It integrates seamlessly with Home Assistant right out of the box. The external antenna might look bulky at first, but it’s surprisingly unobtrusive and works really well.

Works as expected. Needed to setup a few zigbee devices closer to receiver to create a mesh before I could connect to devices further away.

I needed a Zigbee hub and this one is highly recommended for Home Assistant. You just plug it in and it is auto detected and installed.. or at least that’s what is supposed to happen.I ordered this in ‘ok’ condition from Amazon Warehouse to save about $7. The device came in a plain box and looked brand new. Plugged it in.. was recognized by Home Assistant, but when I tried to install it that kept failing. The logs showed some config settings weren’t being applied properly.Did some research online and followed the steps to flash the latest version of firmware onto this device. It was a major pain to do this, but I finally got the new firmware installed. Plugged this into my Home Assistant PC and it was detected, then the installation worked no problems. Yay! Was able to pair some Zigbee devices with no issues either. Has been working well for a couple of weeks.So why didn’t it work right away? I think someone may have flashed it as a Zigbee router instead of a repeater. Or maybe someone else tried to flash it, and it only partially worked, leaving the device in a broken state. I figure they tried to get this working, failed, and then gave up and returned it to Amazon. And at Amazon they look at it and see it looks OK so just resell it as working. I doubt Amazon was able to test this before reselling it. If so they would have known it was broken…I’m glad I was able to fix it, but was it worth the $7 in savings? No way! It took me about 3 hours of hacking/troubleshooting to get this working. I was very pleased to get it fixed, but next time if it doesn’t work right away, I will return it and buy a brand-new one, which I’m confident would work right out of the box. The only reason I didn’t return this was because I really wanted to get this set up during the weekend and it would have been another 2 day wait to have Amazon ship me a new one.Lesson learned!

It's incredibly easy to set up - just plug and play. It's working as expected as a hub for my Zigbee devices.

It was plug-and-play once I got Home assistant working on the PC. No problem in finding Zigbee IOT devices from several manufacturers.

Plug and Play with HomeAssistant - worked with just a few clicks.