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Question about the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 (self.homeassistant)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by abrahambelch to c/[email protected]

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Hello everybody,

Im currently planning on migrating my smart home to Home Assistant and run the HA docker image on my home server.

Most of my devices communicate via Zigbee so I was thinking of getting the Connect ZBT-1.
I also have a few Matter/Thread devices which would be nice to integrate as well, although not necessarily in the initial migration.

I read the ZBT-1 can experimentally be used with Thread as well. Now my question is: Is it possible to buy two devices and connect to Zigbee and Thread devices simultaneously?

Maybe someone has a similar setup and would like to share their experience.

Thanks in advance and have a nice weekend!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I only have the one ZBT-1 at the moment, but like you I was also thinking about getting a second for Thread (though in the form of a HA Yellow). There's this bit in the documentation for the Yellow about multiprotocol support and one of the things is that it's better to have a second wireless chip in some cases which I take to mean that you can have multiple ZBT-1, one for Zigbee and one for Thread.

For large networks it is advisable to add a second wireless chip. This allows to run Zigbee and Thread each on a dedicated wireless chip and on separate channels.

(source: https://yellow.home-assistant.io/guides/about-multiprotocol/)

[–] abrahambelch 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the link, I think it indeed looks best to use a second one then (I think I'll do some more research though). But it's interesting to see (in case of the Yellow) you could theoretically use one device for both if they operate on the same channel.