GoControl CECOMINOD016164 HUSBZB-1 USB Hub

I find a mix of both is fine.I got the GoControl HUSBZB-1 and haven't had a single problem. Using both Zigbee lights and Z-wave (Zooz) plugs for energy monitoring.

That entirely depends on your requirements. Every one is buying into some garden and which one changes which set of things work. I haven't played with SmartThings. I have seen the bits and parts however and it's reasonably good. It's enough that the enthusiast can figure out what's going on.

Here's my list:

• Swedes do Apple? IKEA. Their hub isn't the best, but if all you care about are lights, blinds, generally "things you can turn off and on" -- IKEA does a half decent job. Their home smart lights are quite nice and have some neat features. Integrates nicely with HomeAssistant, however the hubs can be a little flaky and it has VERY rigid ideas of what lights do. If you aren't ready to commit to a hub quite yet, you can just pick up the bulbs and remotes (in sets) and they work independent of the hub, which you pair to a bulb and it just "figures it out". You can migrate everything but the hub over to any other Zigbee system as well.
• The "Can I buy it at Walmart" option: Phillips Hue. While just lighting, the Hue stuff is good, if not remarkably reasonable. There's one catch however: Their system is galaxy-brain limited. There's plenty of things that hook onto it, but there's limitations. Also, until about a year and a half ago, it took a whole round trip through Google to get your lights turned on or off. There's been some horror stories from my friends about the longevity of the hubs themselves.
• Hipster: Wink. They've been around for some time but haven't caught on as much as SmartThings. I haven't played with it.
• The best all-around not asking questions "I just want the fucking thing to work" hub? Amazon Echo. Several of the newer echos have Zigbee and Z-Wave integrated in, such as the Echo gen3. They're a little limited in that they're very much "hands off" devices, but if you wanted to automate someone who was comfortable with an Alexa device in their home, it's the most simple way. Plus, you can get things that work with both systems (Innr, IKEA, Gledopto, etc. all make Zigbee devices and there's so many Z-Wave devices out there there's literally zwaveproducts.com to sell them) and basically anything listed as "Works With Alexa" in Amazon is going to support that hub.
• "I want my general contractor to probably maybe know what the fuck is going on" hub? Lutron Caseta. Hands down the most easily findable smarthome setup you can do. So common you can walk into Home Depot and the tech isn't just in the "smart home" section it's in the fucking lighting section all on its own like a beacon of "SO YOU WANNA AUTOMATE LIKE THE BIG BOYS?" Pair it with sensors over Z-Wave or Zigbee or something else and a controller like Home Assistant or OpenHAB and you've got yourself a home automation system that can compete with some of the big kids in the room for the cheap.
• The DIY option with lots of choices: Zigbee2Mqtt and HomeAssistant. Using the commercially available cheap zigbee routing stuff, Zigbee2MQTT makes your zigbee devices talk mqtt with whatever you want. That means, really, HomeAssistant or OPenHAB. Both are fine options but there's always the chance your devices are going to flake out at 2AM
• The DIY solution but where the lights work out of the box: Phoscon. Zigbee only, but built by Dresden Eletronik, it's a Software Defined Zigbee. There's some cool things you can do with it but the killer feature is that it works out of the box with a lot of hardware. I haven't gotten a Zigbee device that didn't eventually have support, and most of the issue is that the Phoscon approach is to only care about devices that are inherently known to the developers. This works fairly well and most lights work out of the box, but remotes and some other things can be tricky. It works well with HomeAssistant and with other integrations, since there's an open API for you to hook onto. The developers are also really cool about adding new devices, since they make their primary bread and butter off people buying other hardware they sell.
• The DIY option where you get your hands dirty: HomeAssistant or OpenHAB with several radios strapped to it. Something like the GoControl stick on a Pi with HomeAssistant has plenty to work with but there's lots of rough edges if you aren't looking closely. Zwave is a lot easier than Zigbee in this case, but the GoControl stick has both radios in it so you get a bit of the best of both worlds.

I’ve been happy with this one- https://www.amazon.com/GoControl-CECOMINOD016164-HUSBZB-1-USB-Hub/dp/B01GJ826F8

Has Zigbee too.

I’m in the same boat you are. To make the switch from ST to HA, is this the only thing needed?

GoControl CECOMINOD016164 HUSBZB-1 USB Hub https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GJ826F8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_WepcEbEDRM9K3

Waiting on https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GJ826F8/ (tried to kill referral link on mobile)

You didn't ask me, but I use this stick on my Home Assistant setup, and it's been flawless for me so far.

You already have Home Assistant so why not add Zwave and Zigbee to it, I switched from Samsung Smartthing to HA a few months ago, and it is smoother because it is all local and not on the chopping block like STs. I just added this and it works well...

I switched from SmartThings to Home Assistant. I am using a rPi4 with a usb zigbee/zwave stick. I started with my zwave devices 1st. I excluded them from my current network and then added them to HA. Then went to ZigBee.

I was missing webCoRE. Did some quick research and found Node-RED. I now have 100% of my network local and running flawlessly. I am very happy with HA. Took about a week to get everything moved over and all my automations setup again. I have around 40 nodes I needed to switch over.

Get one of these

HUSBZB-1

Install Home Assistant, make sure all the bulbs are in 'local' or 'dev' mode. The rest of the Zigbee devices will show up once you add the Zigbee integration into Home Assistant

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I've got 3 of the motion sensors that work flawlessly and no Mi Home App

Last month's DuckDNS outage was the push I needed to migrate from SmartThings to a local Zigbee / Z-Wave setup. I'm now using a GoControl stick plugged directly into the rPi running Home Assistant. It works great, and as an added bonus, the motion sensors respond more quickly now that they don't have to make a round trip through Samsung's servers first.

You'll want to pick up some sort of Z-Wave or Zigbee USB stick so that the devices can talk to your Home Assistant box. I picked up this one for ~$50 and it can do both zwave and zigbee.

You'll stick it in your Linux box and then you have to configure home assistant to read the ports, but it's not too hard, plenty of guides floating around. Now you have a hub that talks in Zwave and Zigbee and you can start adding devices, and because you can talk in either protocol you can use pretty much any device you want.

You'll probably want to install node red for creating your integrations, like motion activated security lights/cameras. I haven't made it that far yet so I can't speak to how difficult it is, but I was able to get the USB stick running on Home Assistant off a Raspberry Pi in the last few days and have successfully added a few light bulbs.

Yes. I got this dongle. It’s a combo of both Protocols. I haven’t used it yet so I don’t know if it’s good or not.

This is the dongle most people use. It has both zigbee and z-wave radios:

https://www.amazon.com/GoControl-CECOMINOD016164-HUSBZB-1-USB-Hub/dp/B01GJ826F8/ref=sr_1_3?crid=277BWOR7I34JG&dchild=1&keywords=zwave+zigbee+usb&qid=1596036863&sprefix=zwave+zig%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-3

I'm using the HUSBZB-1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GJ826F8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Can't speak to its zwave functionality since I've only got zigbee devices, but its worked well so far.

https://www.amazon.com/GoControl-CECOMINOD016164-HUSBZB-1-USB-Hub/dp/B01GJ826F8/ref=sr_1_11?crid=2ONX1KZRA12L2&keywords=linear+gocontrol&qid=1585073501&s=electronics&sprefix=Linear+go%2Celectronics%2C181&sr=1-11

I use this one

I just purchased a new house and had been planning on using home assistant. It is the only option I've seen that can give an integrated picture across all the potential platforms you have. I wasn't sure from the reviews, but this USB dongle is what worked for me for some of my existing z-wave and zigbee devices.

Otherwise, wifi switches are so much cheaper than when I did this 5 years ago. All the new switches I'm buying to use with HA are TreatLife switches from amazon when on discount (\~$10-$12 each), that I then flash with Tasmota using TuyaConvert. The wifi and zwave switches all feel much more responsive to commands compared to smartthings that I was coming from previously.

Using the wifi siwtches is a little more work, but is worth the savings imo. TuyaConvert is a bit technical, but you should be able to get through it after fumbling through it the first time. Having a raspberry pi on hand can make it a bit easier. It isn't "programming", just following steps and configuration.

I support this, also have 3 Xiami Window/Door sensors (Same thing as Aqara) they were $10 each, they never disconnect and have never missed a status update. I use ZHA with the HUSBZB-1 I don't have anything Zwave, but since the HUB can do both maybe one day I will.

https://www.amazon.com/GoControl-CECOMINOD016164-HUSBZB-1-USB-Hub/dp/B01GJ826F8

GoControl HUSBZB1 ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GJ826F8 ). One USB devices does both zigbee and zwave

zwave:
  usb_path: /dev/zwave
  network_key: !secret zigbee_network_key

zha:
  ## Path deprecated, now found in  .storage/core.config_entries
  ## usb_path: /dev/zigbee

This. I moved from ST to Home Assistant using a Z-Wave+Zigbee USB stick (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GJ826F8) and moved everything over. HA is way more customizable than ST, even when leveraging webCoRE.

It does take a bit to get everything in, but once you learn the system, it's very smooth.

I use this with home assistant. It solves that issue but it takes some time to research and get set up. Most things that are zigbee or zwave or even wifi are compatible. I have it running on my home nas/server but you can just as easily set it up on a raspberry pi. Hope that helps.

1.- Yes. All my Smartthings devices (multi-sensors, buttons, outlets) are running locally through Home Assistant using HUSBZB-1 dongle. Be careful, you are talking about Z-Wave radios but the Smartthings devices you own are actually Zigbee.

2.- I dont know, since all my Smartthings devices are running locally I have no need for that integration.

3.- I have the exact same setup as yours regarding SSL certs - HomeAssistant runs behind an nginx instance with LetsEncrypt certs. Im running a cron job to run a script to keep the certificates up to date as these expire every 3 months.

4.- You can also run your Philips Hue devices locally, just like the Smartthings devices, using the same HUSBZB-1 dongle but I do not recommend it. The Philips Hue hub and app combo works dramatically better than running the devices through HomeAssistant. Of course, you can always add the Philips Hue integration to Home Assistant and control your devices/run automations from there.

5.- Finally, I highly suggest not using a Pi for HomeAssistant. The reliability is a nightmare. I have HomeAssistant (Hassio) running as a VM in a ESXi host and just passthrough the HUSBZB-1 usb device.

6.- Also want to add that if you end up getting the HUSBZB-1 dongle, also get an USB cable extension for it. Never use that dongle directly connected to a PC or a Pi as the EM interference will cause severe connectivity issues.

I started with Smartthings, then Hubitat, now Home Assistant.

Smart Things is a mess. The platform is barely supported by Samsung, the only reason the hub is popular is because of the large developer community. Automations are done in the cloud, or at least, used to be. Some things are local now. Their Classic app (which works great) vs new app (which is shit) is a huge clusterfuck and has been an ongoing mess for years. Installing Groovy apps is not as easy as it should be (cutting and pasting groovy code). Developing Groovy apps is... forget about it unless you are a Java expert.

Hubitat is a local version of Smartthings. Still uses groovy as the app framwork (ie, not for beginners) but automations are done locally. Their phone app is horrible. Basically if you want local execution and basic automations, and don't care about cloud and a cool phone app, Hubitat is the way to go.

Home Assistant is, for now the best of the 3 platforms. Runs local. Can run on a rPI, can run in a VM, has a really good phone app. Easy to see under the hood what's going on. Has good integration with Node Red, InfluxDB. I've only been using it a week so I don't know all the nooks and crannies, but I'm sticking with it and plan to write my own integrations for it. Get a Nortek USB stick and a rPI and you're good to go.

The GoControl Nortek HUSBZB-1 is quite popular for a single zwave plus and zigbee stick. Here's an excerpt of my docker-compose config to mount them both to my hass container:

```yaml version: '3'

networks: proxy: external: true

services: home-assistant: image: homeassistant/raspberrypi-homeassistant container_name: "hass" restart: always networks: - proxy volumes: - /srv/homeassistant/config:/config - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro devices: # GoControl HUSBZB-1 - "/dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0" - "/dev/ttyUSB1:/dev/ttyUSB1" environment: - TZ=America/Los_Angeles ```

I’ve got three of them deployed and three different HA setups and never have had any issues with it.

GoControl CECOMINOD016164 HUSBZB-1 USB Hub https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GJ826F8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_VxCKEb8PVBWSJ

you can start out with the rpi. i used to place mine behind a TV. no need for protection because it was out of reach. ultimately i ended up using an old laptop and install Ubuntu on it. works much much better than a rpi. to talk to zigbee and zwave devices, you will need this adapter https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GJ826F8/

Oh I'm not sure I've only had this one https://www.amzn.com/dp/B01GJ826F8 from amazon. Maybe someone else is aware of some difference that I am not, but I would guess there isn't one since the system sees this stick as 2 separate USB devices.

So it should work with the stick I use?

Seems this or a DIY with NodeMCU is the way to go. I do have a couple of ESP8266 boards laying around and a couple of project cases... I may do one of each just to compare.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GJ826F8/

HUSBZB-1 connects to both Z-wave and ZigBee. I have never had any problems with mine and have both Z-wave and ZigBee devices.

I run Linux Mint on my Nuc, with Hassio in docker.

I bought mine from Amazon, it was $80 AUD, seems to have dropped to $40 AUD. Here it is

I lied its Nortech. Regardless, it works extremely well, haven't had any issues with it at all!

GoControl CECOMINOD016164 HUSBZB-1 USB Hub https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GJ826F8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_lQU6EbYADA2FN

You’d need a zwave compatible hub to capture the data.

I’m using that same meter with Home Assistant installed on a raspberry pi with this zwave usb dongle.

The pi doesn’t need internet to read the data from the meter but you do need a network so you could connect to the Pi and read the data from it.

If you don’t want the Pi to be on any network, you could have the pi’s WiFi be an adhoc network. That would be like a private 1-to-1 WiFi network that you’d connect your phone to whenever you’d like to see the metered info. Then you’d disconnect from it to go back to normal data.

I’m late on this, but I just looked at my old order, and the stick I’m using is the GoControl CECOMINOD016164 HUSBZB-1 USB Hub - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GJ826F8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_2X17Eb2PRWJ9Z

Think that’s an issue? Do I need to spring for newer hardware?

I use a dual radio usb. GoControl HUSBZB-1

/u/Clapyourhands2and4 - it works! The light turned on so quickly that I thought something was wrong! Fractions of a second, and instantly the light is on.

Freaking amazing.

I went with these two devices:

• bulb for <$9 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R3ID2BG/
• Zigbee/Zwave combo USB https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GJ826F8

My only problem now is what to do with my "spare" Wyze bulbs that I can no longer use with my motion sensors...

I have an overpowered PC running Windows that I use as a Plex server. I installed VirtualBox on it and run Home Assistant as well. Works really well and, if nothing else, is free to try to see if you want to move that way.

I think this is the guide that I followed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVqyDtEjudk&t=190s

And I eventually ended up with this stick that controls my ZWave and Zigbee devices: https://www.amazon.com/GoControl-CECOMINOD016164-HUSBZB-1-USB-Hub/dp/B01GJ826F8

Xiaomi sensors and buttons use ZigBee, so you can get a ZigBee usb stick , e.g.

https://www.amazon.com/dresden-elektronik-ConBee-Universal-Gateway/dp/B07PZ7ZHG5

Or

https://www.amazon.com/GoControl-CECOMINOD016164-HUSBZB-1-USB-Hub/dp/B01GJ826F8

Or chec

(This one does zwave too)

and use that instead of the gateway.

The HUSBZB-1 stick would be my suggestion. I've never had an issue with it and at $35 (https://www.amazon.com/GoControl-CECOMINOD016164-HUSBZB-1-USB-Hub/dp/B01GJ826F8/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Zigbee+stick&qid=1579274609&sr=8-2 ), it's a good price.

A RPi 4 will be good for a while and the zigbee z wave stick I use is a combo antenna with basically no setup. After installing hassio plug in the stick add the two lines in the link below to the config.yaml file plug in the usb and restart. Its a nice hobby project that will take your home automation to God tier status. Most of all it works off local execution so even if the internet goes out it should work.

https://www.amazon.com/GoControl-CECOMINOD016164-HUSBZB-1-USB-Hub/dp/B01GJ826F8#

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/help-needed-for-husbzb-1-zigbee-configuration/87999

Hass.io

Also, you'll need a usb z-wave stick for the rpi4 so home assistant can act as your zwave hub.

https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/z-wave/controllers/

These should all work. I use a Nortek branded one and it works fine too

https://www.amazon.com/GoControl-CECOMINOD016164-HUSBZB-1-USB-Hub/dp/B01GJ826F8

If your going zwave then use one of these is all you need. Just plug into USB port

https://www.amazon.com/GoControl-CECOMINOD016164-HUSBZB-1-USB-Hub/dp/B01GJ826F8/ref=mp_s_a_1_15?dchild=1&keywords=zwave&qid=1606268782&sr=8-15

I use the Aeon Labs

https://www.amazon.com/Aeotec-Z-Stick-Z-Wave-create-gateway/dp/B00X0AWA6E/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Aeon+Labs&qid=1606268874&sr=8-4

These Samsung SmartThings Buttons are pretty cool: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-SmartThings-GP-U999SJVLEAA-One-Touch-Appliances/dp/B07F8ZFFQK/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=samsung+smartthings+button&qid=1599245154&sr=8-2

They have a temperature sensor in them but then you can also probably use the button too (single press, double press, press and hold functions), so it's a pretty useful thing to have. I have several around the house that I bought just for the button functionality (mostly for controlling lights and scenes from the end-table), but having the temperature sensor built-in is a bonus I didn't know that I wanted. Now I have a temp sensor in every room!

You'll have to get Zigbee set up on your home assistant server to use these...

This is a great option because it gives you Zigbee AND Z-Wave with just one USB stick: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GJ826F8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Opens up a whole world of home automation products, and doesn't pollute your wifi.

You'll need some sort of radio dongle. I use this one as it's both z wave and zigbee. It is very popular and works great.

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Moving to HA from Smartthings. I want to make sure I'm not missing anything before moving forward.

Hi. I have used Smartthings for a few years now. I have a mix if z-wave and zigbee devices along with two wifi devices. I use Webcore extensively. I want to leave the Smartthings platform because I want local control and the ability to backup my configuration for when something breaks (zwave/zigbee stick, HA, or my hub device).

I do think a Raspberry Pi would be fine for my setup, but I like the idea of a mini-PC/NUC.

My plan is to purchase the following:

Intel NUC NUC6CAYH 8GB ram and 128GB SSD I don't plan to run anything other than HA with Node Red. Any chance this is under powered? I plan to install Ubuntu then HA.

GoControl HUSBZB-1 Stick to control Zigbee Devices

Aeotech Z-Stick for Z-Wave Devices. I realize the GoControl stick can also do z-wave but I like the backup functionality for this device. The majority of my devices are z-wave. Is the backup functionality worth the extra cost/hassle? I really don't like the idea of re-pairing everything from scratch if there's a failure.

Am I missing anything? I do not know a lot about Ubuntu or yaml so I suspect i'm going to be doing a lot of learning/failing along the way. I do have some programming experience that I hope will help. So far, the HA community has been amazing and I'm happy to see many guides exist for what I'm trying to accomplish.

If you're using Z-Wave and/or Zigbee devices, you'll need a USB radio to talk to those devices from Home Assistant. I use and recommend this thing.

You can plug that directly into the system you have running Home Assistant, or follow a guide I wrote to connect to the USB radio over the network.

You need a zigbee adapter for both the pi and the HA build.

This is the one that I use and it has plenty of documentation if you need to search for an issue.

I'm currently using this kit hooked up to an SSD.

Heh, I prefer to let people know who they're dealing with before they start throwing technical terms at me that I won't understand. Just to clarify, I was wrong about the humidity part, but the buttons are definitely temp sensors. I use one to monitor the temperature in the little one's room. No issues with connectivity, I'm in an apt myself so it works well for us.

I bought the HUSBZB-1 stick because it does zigbee and zwave and I wanted to be able to dip my fingers into both pies rather than have to buy an additional device down the road.

Not much more to say, I've had no issues so far. They seem pretty accurate for the temperature side of things, and the button automations were really simple to set up. My wife loves that she can just press a button and the light will turn on/off. We use to use Alexa or the phone app, this is much more convenient.

I'll be following the thread in case others have better solutions that I could add to my setup.

Edit for links.

This is the USB hub I bought.

These are the buttons. They were sold by Amazon when I bought them a couple of weeks ago, looks like third party sellers as I type this. A little more expensive at $15

Definitely this. homeassistant + rpi 4 + zooz smart switch(https://www.amazon.com/Z-Wave-Switch-Existing-Regular-Required/dp/B074CJ1ZRF/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=zooz+light+switch&qid=1583181623&sr=8-5) + HUSBZB-1 USB z wave controller (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GJ826F8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

= ez pz light control