Zigbee Bridge Ultra - Matter Compatible Smart Hub for IoT, 256 Device Capacity, 1.5GHz Dual-Core CPU, 1GB DDR4, Ethernet & Wi-Fi, 200m Range, Smart Security Alerts

Simple and great to get my zigbee devices connected

Really good easy setup

Nice compact size so easy to hide in the home. Works well with devices.

The good - Decent bridge if you just want to control Sonoff Zigbee devices. - Nice and small - Powered from USBC - Has ethernet if you need to hard wire it The not-so good - No open-source firmware yet to support non-Sonoff devices (Try the ESP32 based ZBBridge-P instead) - No power adapter supplied (you probably have spares, but this devices needs one to be dedicated to it) - No support for POE

Works great setup easy

I bought this for my Sonoff radiator valves and, while you can connect the valves straight to an Alexa echo without the need for a hub, Alexa doesn't show the battery status and theres no way to update the firmware without the eWeLink app. I had a previous hub before (the v3 one) that costs around £20-£30 and it worked well but, I sold it on when i discovered i could connect to Alexa directly. Unfortunately with Alexa, the units tend to go offline frequently so I thought I'd opt for this unit (which is nearly three times the price). Unfortunately the range of this unit is woeful 🙁 unless the hub is in the same room, it doesn't seem to detect the radiator valves and hence they can't be controlled. With the previous version, one hub could reach all the units in all the rooms (both upstairs and downstairs) There's no way i'm buying one of these new hubs for each room at this silly price so I'm returning this and going to go back to the old version of the hub (if I can find it for sale somewhere as Amazon no longer sells it!).

Didn't detect my smart lights don't know if it was faulty or just not compatible

I thought that I would be able to use this with other Zigbee devices that were not from sonoff. It makes no sense to me to create a protocol standard and then only allow devices from one ecosystem connect? Why? This just means more hubs, more hubs, more plastic... more waste.... Stop this madness..... I do like Sonoff Products and maybe this device could be changed to support other Zigbee devices later or be hacked like so many of their other hubs but why should I have to hack them.... Oh, I'm repeating myself here... Obviously this one got on my goat!.. Got returned in about 2 hours of delivery!