Zigbee Coordinators (& Thread too) in 2025

What's the state of supported Zigbee but also Thread coordinators in 2025? What you should avoid and what options you have. We will look at USB and Ethernet coordinators plus talk about possible future development. And yes, almost all of them today work with both ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT. List of supporter adapters for Zigbee2MQTT (and ZHA): https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/ slae.sh Texas Instrument CC2652RB coordinator: https://slae.sh/projects/cc2652/ Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus (P) TI CC2652P: https://itead.cc/product/sonoff-zigbee-3-0-usb-dongle-plus/ref/132/ (*) Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle E SL EFR32MG21: https://itead.cc/product/zigbee-3-0-usb-dongle/ref/132/ (*) Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1/SkyConnect SL EFR32MG21 : https://www.home-assistant.io/connectzbt1/ ZigStar UZG-01 TI CC2652P7: https://uzg.zig-star.com/product/ SMLight Tect SLZB Ethernet coordinators: https://smlight.tech/ 00:00 - Intro 00:34 - Zigbee coordinators - about them 03:33 - DON'T BUY TI CC2531 04:20 - My main coordinator slae.sh CC2652RB 05:51 - Sonoff Donge P & Dongle E 07:26 - Home Assistant ZBT-1 or SkyConnect 11:25 - ZigStar UZG-01 13:39 - SMLight SLZB coordinators 15:04 - Recommendations? 17:12 - Best one? 19:29 - Final recap and thoughts Don't forget to give this video thumb up if you liked it, subscribe if you still haven't and I'll see you next time! Have fun! Bearded Tinker ____________________________________________________________ 👕☕Awesome merchandise? Sure - here it is! ▶ https://shop.beardedtinker.com/ ____________________________________________________________ 🧡 If you would like to support me and this channel, you can JOIN and become YouTube channel member! 🙏 https://www.youtube.com/BeardedTinker/join ____________________________________________________________ 📣Follow me on other platforms📣 ✅Twitter: @BeardedTinker ✅Instagram: @2BeardedTinker ✅Discord: https://discord.gg/HkxDRN6 ✅TikTok: @beardedtinker ____________________________________________________________ (*) if any, should indicate links that are affiliated links. They don't cost you anything extra but provide small income to get this channel going, and finance future projects I make. #homeassistant #zigbee #thread #zha #zigbee2mqtt