I’ve been running Home Assistant for over a year with incredible stability. Recently, I took a leap to update my Home Assistant & Zigbee2MQTT as I thought it’s been outdated for a year (i probably shouldn’t upgrade since everything is working fine but YOLOOOOOO).
My initial setup was Docker based which consist of 4 containers:
- HASS
- z2m
- mosquitto MQTT broker
- Vscode server
I decided to convert this stack to VM based HAOS so I can just scheduled a daily VM snapshot and import back when something went wrong. HAOS addon is also a breeze to work with.
Migration went well and I just had to repair some automation trigger and everything worked. And now I had a fully working HASS + latest z2m.
Was happy for about a day(?), then I started having issue about z2m add-on randomly shutting down & a particular Aqara switch always response slower than others. After bit of research, seems like z2m now recommend Ember adapter, and my dongle was bit outdated too.
I am using the Sonoff ZBDongle-E and running a firmware of 6.x.x. So maybe an upgrade would help?
So next move:
- flash the dongle to latest v7.4.3 firmware
- switch to ember adapter in z2m
- pray that it won’t break
Flashing process is simple, just download the latest firmware from githuband flash using this web flasher (had issue connecting the dongle initially, but installing the driver helped).
And … BAM!
Nothing break, and the particular switch is now acting normal again. Overall speed feels the same but the z2m add-on had been working normally for a week now.