HomeSeer Z-Wave USB Interface/Radio/Dongle (SmartStick G8), 800 Series Mesh & Long Range Z-Wave Technology, Compatible with HomeSeer, Home Assistant, OpenHAB

Works well for me. My Z-Wave stuff is almost entirely Zooz now, but I started out with this stick and it just worked with Home Assistant from the beginning. Only thing I've not been able to get to work is a ZLR connection to a device outside of the reach of my normal Z-Wave network. Not sure it has anything to do with this dongle though, more likely because it's located in a poor location in my house.

Had a Aeotec Z-stick previously, and could not for the life of me get a healthy network: first hop needed to be line-of-sight, smartstart inclusion never worked, some devices would randomly drop out. After months of thinking it was something I did, I tried swapping controllers to this one, and all those problems went away!! Has no issues with NVM backup (but have not tried restore). Might require a USB extension to keep interference from the computer low (common for these sticks). Very happy overall

Great improvement over the previous iterations i've used. Network stays up and nodes stay connected as they should. I'm running this on homeseer installed on a windows 11 server. it's been up and running for weeks now with absolutely zero issues to note.

The Home Assistant Green appliance does not have USB 3.0 ports. These ports interfere with Z-Wave devices. If you happen to have a host with only USB 2.0 ports, feel free to directly connect this to it without worrying about interference from USB 3.0 ports. It works great with Home Assistant via Z-Wave JS UI. Paired with my first and only Z-Wave devices, a Yale Assurance Lock 2 very easily.

I bought the HomeSeer SmartStick G8 and it arrived completely non‑functional. Windows identifies it as a CH9102 generic USB serial adapter (VID_1A86) instead of the Silicon Labs CP2102N that the SmartStick G8 is supposed to use. Home Assistant also fails to connect because the stick doesn’t expose a Z‑Wave interface at all. This means the internal USB interface chip is either dead or misprogrammed. The Z‑Wave radio may be present, but the stick cannot communicate with anything. For a premium Z‑Wave 800 series controller, this is unacceptable. Buyers should be aware that defective units are making it into the supply chain.

I am testing Home Assistant and exploring what it can do. I easily added Zwave devices using this as the hub.

Good range and signal strength. Using it with Home Assistant.

I am using this on a Home Assistant setup. It came right up, found my Z-Wave devices, no trouble.

Worked perfectly and found my first alert zwave smoke and CO alarms with Home Assistant and Zwave app.

Ich verwende das Modul mit ZwaveJS (UI) und Home Assistant. Der Stick wurde direkt erkannt. In seltenen Fällen gibt es auch mit der aktuellen Firmware (v7.22.2) den Fehler, dass keine Kommunikation möglich ist. Ich habe aber dadurch keine Beeinträchtigung feststellen können. Der Controller funktioniert ansonsten ohne Probleme. Die Region kann in den Einstellungen (in ZwaveJS UI) geändert werden, falls das benötigt ist.

Wunderbar, jetzt funktionieren alle meine Z Wave Geräte, wie es der Entwickler auch vorgesehen hat. Sehr schnelle Reaktionszeiten, hoch kompatibel und wurde von Proxmox und Home Assistant sofort erkannt. Würde ich sofort wieder kaufen.

Verwende diesen Stick in einem Proxmox LXC IOBroker. In Iobroker muss man den Stick auf das Frequenzband Europa einstellen. Das geht bei Bild 1, wie ausgewählt links unten Note0. Getestet wurde bisher die Steckdose Devolo S0. und Shelly PM1 z-wave S2.

Habe mir den Stick geholt, da ich diverse Probleme mit meinem alten Z-Wave Board hatte. Der Umstieg hat reibungslose funktioniert, siehe Beschreibung auf der HomeSeer Seite. Und seit der Umstellung keine Probleme oder Verbindungsunterbrechungen.