THIRDREALITY Zigbee 3.0 USBC-Dongle, Universal Zigbee USB Stick, Compatible with Zigbee2Mqtt

I am new to Home Assistant, and I found myself in possession of an unused laptop that only features a Type-C interface. After some research, I came across the Third Reality dongle, which was the only one I could find that supported the Type-C interface natively. Eager to enhance my Home Assistant setup, I decided to give it a try.During the installation process in Home Assistant, I had to choose the Zigate integration, and I decided to simply ignore the warning that appeared. To my pleasant surprise, the installation went incredibly smoothly, and I was up and running in no time.One aspect of the Third Reality dongle that has truly impressed me is its Zigbee range. I've tested it and found that I can get sensors to work flawlessly even at a distance of 100 feet. This extended range has significantly expanded the possibilities for sensor placement in my smart home setup, making it more versatile and effective.

Good price but not functional in Home Assistant. Tried both ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT and neither work with the device. After not being able to use the device I then updated it with the latest firmware. That completed fine then tried in home assistant again but still did not work. The device did install using ZHA but did not work. Could not add any devices. Zigbee2MQTT would not start and gave an error saying the device timed out. Purchased a Sonoff zigbee adapter and worked right out of the box.

Works with HAI was surprised to see folks said it is not working with HA. Yes it get a warning about not recommened, but simply ignore it and continue the process, it actually works pefect with my HA setup. I really like the range of the product, compared with my SONOFF dongle, they are at same range. But SONONFF got a big antenna.

Started off great in Home Assistant. Setup was simple using ZHA. However, after a few hours, ALL the devices would disconnect at the same time. Everything reconnected when I restarted Home Assistant, but everything would drop again after a few hours. I ended up exchaging for the Sonoff Zigbee radio and haven't had any drops with the Sonoff.

no-frills packaging, easy to install.

I ordered this to play with home assistant on a spare computer. After setup of the basic home assistant detected many WiFi devices that it could control, I thought why not move my Zigbee devices. I plugged in the device and it was configured by the host OS, but I had to follow steps on the Wiki to allow it to show up in the Home Assistant docker instance. After that, it was smooth sailing.While there is a warning that this might be dropped in a future release, at least I saved money to run my home automations until I need to update everything. I can run this release until then if needed... unlike what the big IoT companies like Amazon and Google do when they decide to drop support for something.I am rating this four stars for now. As always, your mileage and preferences may vary...

I plugged it and it did not work. Returned.

I've received the product and successfully set it up with my Z2M. By simply adding the Zigbee zigate adapter, it functions flawlessly. I have several other 3R products, and I'm particularly fond of the Z2M feature that enables me to OTA-update the firmware on my other 3R devices.

Could not get Home Assistant to recognise this product as ZigBee device no matter how many times I tried, nor how close to the ZigBee coordinator it was. Also needed to register another new ZigBee device delivered at the same time - as usual, this was recognised by Home Assistant and integrated into my system very swiftly. Consequently, this device was returned to Amazon.So why have I given even a two star rating? Because Amazon made it easy to receive the item in the UK from the USA and then return it for a full refund. So, 0/5 for the product, 5/5 for Amazon’s delivery service, but a further deduction from Amazon for advertising what was ultimately a dud product in the first place and wasting my time as a result.