https://www.liu.center/tags/zigbee/Recent content in Zigbee on Tech Zen DenHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 17 Jul 2026 21:50:00 -0700https://www.liu.center/posts/slzb-ultima-3/Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:50:00 -0700https://www.liu.center/posts/slzb-ultima-3/ <p>If you have been running Home Assistant for a while, you probably know the pain of USB dongle sprawl. For years, my Home Assistant instance has been running inside a <strong>Proxmox Virtual Machine (VM)</strong> powered by <strong>HAOS</strong>, utilizing two dedicated USB controllers plugged directly into the host server:</p> <ol> <li><strong>Silicon Labs EFR32MG21 USB Dongle</strong> for Zigbee (<code>zigbee2mqtt</code>).</li> <li><strong>Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 (ZW090)</strong> for Z-Wave (<code>Z-Wave JS</code>).</li> </ol> <p><figure> <picture> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="Existing Z-Wave &amp;amp;amp; Zigbee Dongles on Server Rack" class="image_figure image_internal image_unprocessed" src="https://www.liu.center/posts/slzb-ultima-3/zwave-zigbee-dongles-on-server-rack.jpg" /> </picture> </figure> </p>