SONOFF Zigbee Bridge Pro Hub, WI-FI & Zigbee Dual-protocol Supporting, APP Control and Multi-device Management, Compatible with SONOFF Zigbee Devices

I’m trying to get some home automation set up in an old stone wall house. I have managed to pair temperature and humidity sensors and motion sensors (all Sonoff). But some sensors are dropping off; I believe this is because some are too far away from the hub. So the solution will be to extend and build a mesh network with powered (router) Zigbee devices. The problem has been finding devices that will pair to this hub. Aqara devices will not pair.I can confirm Ikea tradfri light bulbs will pair with this hub. So I will use these to build and extend my mesh network. These bulbs must be within 5cms of the hub during pairing. My solution was to power the bulb in its final position, then bring the hub to the bulb. I did this by powering the Sonoff Zigbee bridge pro off a usb battery power bank, then used the ewelink app for the pairing process. Then returned the hub to its normal operating position. So far this has worked. I will update this review when I can see if this improves the end sensors devices dropping out.Update Dec 2024I now use 3 of these. This is a farm with several outbuildings. My Wi-Fi signal can reach the other outbuildings (just). so I put a Sonoff Pro bridge hub in the Polytunnel (where sheep are lambed) and another in the Portacabin (farm office). The Zigbee devices are then connected to the Sonoff hub in their location . From the Ewelink app I can turn on/off lights, kettles; monitor temperature in all the different locations. The furthest distance would be about 50 metres from the internet router in the house. The Portacabin used to be a problem running wi-fi smart devices. Its a metal building so wi-fi from the house didn’t operate at the back of it; but the Wi-Fi signal did reach the front of the building; so I sited the Sonoff pro bridge there and all the Zigbee devices inside the portacabin work perfectly when paired to that hub.In the Polytunnel the Sonoff Pro hub is used to control a water heater, light and a kettle. At 2 am in the morning when you need to move quickly to assist a sheep lambing. I have a routine that switches on the lights that get me from the house to the Polytunnel, turns on the water in the kettle in the Polytunnel, and switches everything off in the house as I leave. Then I have another routine that turns off things in the Polytunnel as I leave to go back to the house, which includes switching on the electric blanket so I can climb into a warm bed.I have mostly used Sonoff devices with these hubs, ie motion sensor, door sensor, temperature humidity, button switches and no neutral switches. The IKEA tradfri bulbs have been super reliable at extending the mesh. The biggest problem I’ve had is getting uk Zigbee smart plugs. I did get Woolley Zigbee smart plugs of Amazon (I have 8). They are often unavailable. But they are superb, very reliable with this hub and Ewelink. They offer scheduling and power monitoring. If your having problems with things going off line, then consider either extending your mesh with the bulbs and smart plugs; or divide your space with a second hub, having first ensured your wi-fi reaches the weak area.Then there’s the house. It’s been undergoing some renovation. The old (oil) boiler is about 50 years old. It used to be wired into one those manual timers. The ones that you clicked in out little pegs to turn it on off; and every time the time changed you had to reset the timer. (Misery). The kitchen got updated with underfloor heating, still working off the old boiler. The plumber cut the wiring off the old timer and wired on an ordinary plug on the end. It’s plugged into a Woolley Zigbee smart plug ; and it’s running the central heating. The smart plug can be scheduled to come on/off at whatever time I want. But more useful is the Sonoff temperature monitor. It’s in the kitchen and a scene on Ewelink controls the Woolley plug turning on/off the heating, Simple and cheap and it works.

Installed and works well. Neat and smaller than expected. Good range, it’s installed upstairs and connected to Zigbee devices on the ground floor. Used to switch lights (through motion sensors) and to control window blinds. Integrates easily with Alexa. Very happy with purchase.

Once flashed with Tasmota it can recognise a huge variety of Zigbee compatible sensors including the IKEA Vallhorn motion sensors etc. Stock firmware only works with Sonoff devices and is mostly useless.

I bought the Sonoff Smart Curtain & needed a Sonnoff hub to intergrate them into Alexa so I bought this as it was the cheapest one Amazon was selling.Easy set up, plug in, open the eweelink app, add hub, hub found, hub connected, hub finds the smart curtain. I have tony of smart devices but this hub only controls my sonoff curtains. I have them set to auto open / close every day & they always do.They also always work via my voice commands everytime so the hub seems perfectly good to me.

Had for a year and it kept losing connection with the radiator valves. Lots of discussions with the manufacturer who had no idea and in the end told me to buy another as it couldn’t cope.Difficult to invest more money in something that doesn’t work, so now looking for a replacement.

I bought this to connect some motion detectors and may add extra kit as time goes by.First thing to do is to install the app before you power up the bridge. The set up was very easy... the app located the device and it was set up in about a minute. Connecting the motion detectors was also very straight forward, so no issues to date.The Bridge is small and very light, roughly the size of 2 match boxes. It comes with a meter long cable with USB to micro USB A plugs. You aren't supplied with a power plug, so bear that in mind when deciding where to leave the box.The Bridge has 2 LEDs, one of which remains on as a status indicator (blue)I'm not really pushing it as far as connecting a lot of devices, nor am I using a lot of functions or routines, so I can't really comment on its performance, other than it works as I want with the 2 detectors I'm using.That's pretty much all I can say about it.

I bought this as Sonoff have a great range of devices. I'm using the bridge to work with Home Assistant and with Google Home.The Home Assistant integration isn't great. The problem is they don't report a unique Id which makes the automation clunky. The bridge also reports things that don't exists that are shown in Home Assistant, like e_welink_virtual_fan and e_welink_virtual_switch. I never configured those in and I cant make them go away.It works well with Google Home though, no issues there.The range of the Zigbee devices isn't that good. I ended up having to move the hub closer to where the devices were. It also sometimes looses the zigbee devices and I have restart the hub.I also having it control as a Wifi switch, that seems fine.So it's a mixed experience.Pro: Reasonably priced hub and devices with good varietyCons: Not as reliable as I would have liked

Despite some negative reviews and having previously bought Sonoff products took the chance and got the Bridge and a four pack of No Neutral Mini's Bridge powdered and linked easily into my ewelink, just fitted the first of the Mini's and again linked easily into my system