SONOFFZigbee USB Dongle Plus-ZBDongle-E 3.0 External Antenna Interface SMA Gateway Universal, Pre-Installed with Zigbee Firmware Based on EZNet 6.10.3 Coordinated Home Assistant or Zigbee2MQTT

Over the past year, I've bought 3 for various installations in different places. I used one each with each of Raspberry Pi 3, 4, and 5. I use them with Home Assistant.They work great.Hint: connect them to a Raspberry Pi by way of a USB extender cable about a meter long to keep the dongle away from all the interference that the Pi puts out.

I bought this and plugged it into a raspberry pi 5. I use it along with HA. I currently have 8 zigbee devices connected and haven't had an issue yet. It was easy to setup and has a pretty good signal strength.

I have these installed on my Home Assistant systems to provide Zigbee connectivity. This interface was auto detected and easy to configure. I have been happy with the range and it is really fire and forget. There are a surprising number of things that use Zigbee and I use it with ZWave, Insteon and Matter at the same time. For a fairly low price you open up a lot of options for connectivity.

I replaced my old 2-in-1 (zwave + zigbee) with this one and another zwave dongle. This has a much better range coverage and I don't need to use zigbee smart plugs as relay server and connections are more stable.

Flashed the latest drivers to it and plugged it into my usb hub and it worked instantly with HA.

I bought this to use with Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5. The system detected it immediately when I connected it, and I followed an Internet video to install it in the software. It works.I followed the advice of everyone in the community to plug it into a USB 2.0 port with an extension cable, rather than a USB 3.0 port or even directly plugging it into a USB 2.0 port - this isn't the fault of this device but rather a fault of the Zigbee protocol itself and of USB 3.0, as USB 3.0 ports tend to generate RF interference that causes trouble for Zigbee devices. The device doesn't need the extra speed of a 3.0 port, and the extension cable allows it to be placed with more flexibility anyway.

Used and works perfectly on Home Assistant.

So far I’m very happy with the Sonoff USB Zigbee coordinator. The only thing that I’m not sure about is the availability of affordable Zigbee devices. I went with Zigbee due to the Plug and play aspect, but turns out there are not THAT many devices. - most will say Zigbee compatible but turns out they are Wi-Fi with some workaround.But as for this dongle, I’m very pleased.Hope that helps!