About Connected Home Notes

What this site is

Connected Home Notes publishes practical guidance for people who self-host Home Assistant and build their own Zigbee or Matter network. The focus is the work that decides whether a local smart home stays reliable: coordinator choice, radio placement, USB interference, channel conflicts, pairing order, and the difference between ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT.

What we cover

• Zigbee coordinator selection, migration and re-pairing decisions.
• ZHA versus Zigbee2MQTT, and where each one fits.
• Pairing failures, range problems, USB noise and 2.4 GHz coexistence.
• Home Assistant integrations, dashboards and local access.
• Browser-based planning and conversion tools that run on your device.

Browse the published articles on the Connected Home Notes blog or open the Zigbee coordinator migration checklist to see the kind of tool this site publishes.

How we work

Guidance is written from the documented behaviour of Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT and the wider Zigbee and Matter ecosystem, and from the practical configuration decisions readers face. Recommendations name the point where a choice depends on your own hardware.

External references

Where this site points to ConnectedCasa material on connectedcasa.org, the link is labelled as an external ConnectedCasa reference and opens the source directly.

Corrections

If a guide is wrong, out of date, or missing a step that matters, thecontact page explains what a useful report should include. Specific reports are more useful than general feedback.