How to use the Sonoff Zigbee Bridge with Home Assistant - Tasmota
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. Purchase Sonoff Zigbee Bridge from Banggood or iTead So how do we flash this? First and foremost, there's NO soldering; don't close the window just yet! It's relatively easy to do. This is a full step by step walk through, some of the Tasmota veterans can skip many of the steps such as adding Tasmota to your
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