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How to connect ZigBee devices to a Raspberry Pi
4 min readFeb 17, 2023
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Description
In this tutorial, I will show you how to connect ZigBee devices to your Raspberry Pi using a gateway. I am using Home Assistant OS, but this tutorial can be applied to many other OS setups with Home Assistant installed too.
The goal is to have a clean Raspberry Pi Home Assistant setup without needing additional ZigBee bridges and cloud services.
What do you need?
- A Raspberry Pi 3 or newer.
- An SD card with Home Assistant OS installed. If you have not installed Home Assistant OS yet you can use their Official Installation Documentation to do so.
- A ZigBee gateway like the RaspBee II that I am using. You can find a list of compatible gateways on the ZigBee Home Automation integration page.
- Compatible ZigBee Devices. You can use this website created by blakadder to check device compatibility.
Step By Step Guide
1. Install the ZigBee Gateway Hardware
If you use the RaspBee II like me, this is pretty straightforward. You just plug in the module to your Raspberry Pi and you are good to go. Make sure to use the…
