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Comment by microtonal 12 hours ago

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Easiest way is to put HAOS (Home Assistant OS) on a Raspberry Pi, Home Assistant Green, or some NUC:

https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/

Then get a coordinator recommended for zigbee2mqtt:

https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/

Then install and start the following add-ons in Home Assistant:

- Mosquitto - zigbee2mqtt: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/installation/03_ha_addon.ht... - MQTT

And that's pretty much it, you can add devices through the MQTT add-on page. They will also become available as entities in the rest of Home Assistant, and you can make graphs, dashboards, actions, etc.

You can also run + install zigbee2mqtt and Mosquitto on a Linux machine, but HAOS give you more of an integrated solution with dashboards, graphs, backups, cloud access, etc.