Even the dongle that supports both zigbee and zwave provides 2 serial ports so functionally it is the same as 2 separate dongles just in a single package.
Zigbee z wave usb.
In the end i decided on a zigbee fan controller which required me to buy a zigbee compatible usb stick the linear nortek husbzb 1 which also has z wave capabilities which allowed me to pair a couple of z wave switches i have laying around.
The only reason to have 1 dongle would be space and availability of usb ports.
If you don t see any of this go ahead and restart your home assistant they should show up after that.
Using a z wave or zigbee stick on synology dsm for use with homeassistant and docker published by dk on april 15 2019 if you want to run or are already running homeassistant on your synology nas dsm 6 2 it s possible that you d want to use a z wave or zigbee stick to communicate with their respective devices.
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Z wave by default will be usb0 and zigbee usb1.
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Are less prone to interference issues than either wi fi or zigbee.
To set up the gocontrol linear husbzb 1 usb stick for home assistant on your pi you ll need to 1 plug it in 2 configure for easy access on your pi and 3 tell ha to turn on z wave zigbee.
You ll need a z wave usb adapter.
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Setting up the gocontrol linear husbzb 1 usb stick with your pi.
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Ttyusb0 is the z wave option so usb1 will be the zigbee option.
I think in most other respects it s probably better to have separate dongles.
Making a diy z wave bridge is even simpler than making a zigbee bridge as you won t need a debugger to flash a custom firmware nor an mqtt service in between.
Luckily this can be done pretty easily see below.
Once restarted you ll go to your integrations and unlike z wave you ll need to add this manually.
I wanted to add z wave zigbee capabilities to my home automation using the husbzb 1 usb stick a combined z wave zigbee controller.
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If you go to the file editor and access the configuration yaml file you will just simply type in these two lines of text.
It s easy for the 2 4 ghz spectrum to get crowded and suffer issues.
Z wave has fewer congestion problems.