SONOFF Dongle max (compatibility)

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Hi @Ti_One and welcome to the forum!

She will like it :wink:
I have a setup with an SMLIGHT SLZB-06M on ethernet, so remote, and an external Z2M server separate from Gladys and both work very well.

@prohand also has an SMLIGHT remote and made a tutorial to connect his dongle with an external z2m server ici.
Note, the tutorial is a bit technical.

The principle in your future configuration:

  • have an MQTT server, activatable and manageable directly in Gladys or external (via docker)
  • have an external z2m server (via docker)
  • modify the z2m server config file configuration.yaml (which should look like this) :
homeassistant:
  enabled: false
mqtt:
  base_topic: zigbee2mqtt
  server: mqtt://IP-DE-GLADYS:1883
  user: gladys
  password: CELUI-DANS-GLADYS
  keepalive: 60
  reject_unauthorized: true
  version: 5
  include_device_information: true
serial:
  port: tcp://Dongle-M.local:6638
  baudrate: 115200
  adapter: ember
  disable_led: false
advanced:
  channel: 25
  transmit_power: 20
  last_seen: ISO_8601_local
  homeassistant_legacy_entity_attributes: false
  legacy_api: false
  legacy_availability_payload: false
  log_level: info
  log_syslog:
    app_name: Zigbee2MQTT
    eol: /n
    host: localhost
frontend:
  enabled: true
  port: 12000
  package: zigbee2mqtt-windfront
  • choose an external z2m server in Gladys’s zigbee2mqtt integration

Points to adjust in the z2m config file:

  • advanced/channel: I have 20, @prohand has 25, depends on the Dongle-M
  • advanced/transmit-power: depends on the Dongle-M
  • serial/port: I would replace Dongle-M.local with its IP
  • frontend/port: this is the port you’ll connect to z2m’s graphical interface on

To get better Zigbee range, just add Zigbee plugs or bulbs or other devices powered by 230V, it works very well to increase the Zigbee mesh!

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