Relatively new to the world of Homey, so bear with me for a second. I have learned so far that Homey can’t do any OTA firmware upgrades. For Matter I can use other apps or Apple Home to upgrade. But how about Zigbee. Can I just buy a Zigbee bridge and trigger upgrades via an app or something? What …

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You could use Home | Zigbee2MQTT Zigbee to MQTT bridge, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges The software would need to run on a device other than Homey, and you would need a zigbee dongle. Once you have this setup, OTA updates can be performed using …

[image] Nils_Kijkuit: Another 100 euro’s to spend on bridges? The Sonoff dongles won’t work (no idea where to plug them in btw) For Sonoff you can use eWeLink CUBE. You need a Raspberry Pi and the eWeLink CUBE software

[image] s73nm: zigbee2mqtt I wouldn’t recommend that. As far as I can see, it uses an unofficial method of updating devices by using FW files uploaded by the community, which is AFAIK unverified. You could risk bricking your devices and voiding your device’s warranty.

If the update isn’t urgent, I would wait before buying any more hubs. Athom is in the process of introducing this to Homey, starting with thread/matter and then the rest of the wireless protocols. :wink:

OTA updates are part of the Zigbee protocol, so as long as Z2M implements the protocol properly (and AFAIK it does, I certainly never had issues when performing OTA updates from it) I don’t think there’s a big risk. FWIW, if Homey will ever support Zigbee OTA updates (and my guess is that it won’t)…

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Ok. I guess I have to wait a bit more. Thanks

[image] robertklep: OTA updates are part of the Zigbee protocol, so as long as Z2M implements the protocol properly (and AFAIK it does, I certainly never had issues when performing OTA updates from it) I don’t think there’s a big risk. The update files need to come from somewhere. I’m sure th…

The project to support OTA updates is currently being worked on :wink:

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Asterix January 29, 2026, 6:59pm 10

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Firmware Update bei Matter Geräten

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