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title: "Home Assistant SkyConnect"
description: "Best way to add Zigbee and Matter to Home Assistant"
date: 2022-10-05
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      <div class="banner-overlay-header">Available soon</div>
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        The Home Assistant SkyConnect is the easiest way to add Zigbee support
        to your Home Assistant instance and make it Matter-ready.
        <br /><br />
        A future firmware update will bring Thread support; allowing SkyConnect
        to power your Matter and Zigbee networks at the same time.
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      <span>Compatible</span>
      <span>Zigbee</span>
      <span>Works with Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT<sup>1</sup></span>
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      <span>Reliable</span>
      <span>Range</span>
      <span>+20 dBm</span>
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      <span>Future Proof</span>
      <span>Updatable</span>
      <span>Updates delivered via Home Assistant</span>
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      <span>Zero Setup</span>
      <span>Plug and Play</span>
      <span>Automatically detected by Home Assistant</span>
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  <h1>Concurrent Zigbee and Thread on a single chip</h1>
  <p>
    Out of the box the Home Assistant SkyConnect will support only Zigbee. We're
    working on a firmware update that makes it possible to run both Zigbee and
    Thread at the same time. Thread is the mesh networking protocol that powers
    Matter, the new standard for smart home devices.
  </p>
  <p>
    Once available, Home Assistant SkyConnect will run part of the software that
    normally runs inside Zigbee and Thread chips inside Home Assistant add-ons.
    These add-ons will be installed and updated automatically without requiring
    user interaction.
  </p>
  <p style="margin-bottom: 0">
    We will make this multi-protocol set-up first available for Home Assistant
    OS installations. We will be looking into making this available for Home
    Assistant Supervised and Home Assistant Container installations afterwards.
  </p>
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<div class="sub-title">Specifications</div>
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      <h3>Components</h3>
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        <div class="spec-title">Radio Chipset</div>
        <div class="spec-content">Silabs EFR32MG21</div>

        <div class="spec-title">Frequency</div>
        <div class="spec-content">2.4GHz</div>

        <div class="spec-title">TX Power</div>
        <div class="spec-content">up to +20dBm</div>

        <div class="spec-title">Protocols</div>
        <div class="spec-content">Zigbee, Thread (Matter)</div>

        <div class="spec-title">USB</div>
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          2.0 full-speed, Silicon Labs CP2102N USB-to-UART bridge
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        <div class="spec-title">Supply</div>
        <div class="spec-content">5V DC / up to 150mA</div>
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      <h3>Form Factor</h3>
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        <div class="spec-title">Width</div>
        <div class="spec-content">18&nbsp;mm/0.7&nbsp;inch</div>
        <div class="spec-title">Height</div>
        <div class="spec-content">4.5&nbsp;mm/1.4&nbsp;inch</div>
        <div class="spec-title">Depth</div>
        <div class="spec-content">38.5&nbsp;mm/1.5&nbsp;inch</div>
        <div class="spec-title">Weight</div>
        <div class="spec-content">4 g/0.14 oz</div>
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<h1 class="sub-title">FAQs</h1>
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  {% details "Why start with Home Assistant OS support for multi-protocol?" %} A
  standalone Zigbee or standalone Thread stick works by turning radio signals
  into radio packets and then processing those radio packets and making that
  available over a serial port.<br /><br />
  With multi-protocol, the processing of the radio packets is moved into Linux
  daemons. This means we run one daemon to split the radio packets into Zigbee
  and Thread streams, one daemon to process the Zigbee radio packets and one
  daemon to process the Thread radio packets.<br /><br />
  To make this all work together, we need to strictly manage the version of the
  firmware on the stick and the three different Linux daemons. The easiest way
  for us to do this is using Home Assistant add-ons in a known host environment,
  which is Home Assistant OS. {% enddetails %} {% details "Why include a USB
  extension cable?" %} USB 3.0 ports (the ones with blue on the inside)
  are known to cause significant noise and radio interference to any 2.4Ghz
  wireless devices. This includes Zigbee and Thread. If you do not use the
  extension cable, it may not work at all, and if it does, it could be flaky at
  best with intermittent problems (issues with pairing, device dropouts, unreachable
  devices, timeout errors, etc). {% enddetails %}
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  1: Relies on the experimental EmberZNet support in Zigbee2MQTT.
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      <span>Home Assistant SkyConnect box includes:</span>
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