In the past I have used a SmartLife Zigbee 3.0 Hub and the Tuya cloud in turn with the Tuya HomeAsisstant integration for controlling my smart home devices.
This was too many hops for my liking, and an unnecessary reliance on a 3rd party cloud. Overall , I was not happy with latency and volume of points of failure.
This time round I have decided to use ZHA to control by Zigbee network directly from HomeAsisstant and entirely locally to my LAN.
To do this, I purchased a Sonoff ZB E type USB dongle. This only cost around £21 including tax and shipping from AliEx:
More to be added to this article….
**ZHA network map**
**ZHA_EVENT***
