Best Zigbee dongle for Home Assistant (2026): compared
SONOFF ZBDongle-E, Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2, SONOFF Dongle Lite MG21 or ConBee II? Chips, Thread support, ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT compatibility compared.
To control Zigbee devices from Home Assistant, you need a Zigbee coordinator: a USB stick with a radio chip. Zigbee runs at 2.4 GHz worldwide, so the same dongles work in the UK and the US; only the shop and stock change. The table below lists chips and features from the manufacturers’ pages; range depends a lot on your walls and layout, so we leave it out.