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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Zamorio2 on 2025-09-17 09:14:25+00:00.

I have a Sonoff ZigBee Dongle E recently flashed to ZigBee 8.0.2 software and I want to use it as coordinator in HA for Zigbee2mqtt. Is there an up to date guide on how to do it? I’ve watched a few dozens video tutorials and followed online guides and most seem to be out of date or contradictory. Some of them ask you create a new user for MQTT, some don’t , some ask to edit the Z2M yaml, some don’t. I’ve also followed the official Z2M instructions to install and use the addon (they didn’t ask to create an MQTT user or transpose any info, it supposedly works now automatically through the onboarding? Which isn’t in any video or guide, but I can’t get beyond the onboarding page). And I don’t know how to troubleshoot it by myself.

I’ve nuked several times my HA installation (it’s a provisional one so no harm done) and tried a few different methods but never gotten past the onboarding page.

Any ideas, suggestions or detailed upt yo date guides?