01 May 11, 2026 · 10 min read
Zigbee in Home Assistant 2026: ZHA, Z2M Add-on, or Z2M on a Separate Server?
Three real-world Zigbee deployments in HA: built-in ZHA, Zigbee2MQTT as an add-on, and Z2M+MQTT on a separate host. Failure isolation, MQTT attack surface, multi-coordinator, PoE coordinators.