2 x Sonoff Universal Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus - £28.79 with voucher @ Sonoff / Amazon

If you flash one as a router you can use it to extent the range of your network and handle more end devices.

P is better for zigbee2mqtt - As you mention E version is experimental

Also cheaper direct from sonoff CN site. (edited)

I'd probably start off here > reddit.com/r/h…nt/

I will be completing on a house soon and I want to get Home Assistant running. I plan on making my own user interface for it as well. With everything you need a plan and a vision. What do you want to do? What is the efficient way of achieving your vision.

What you can do as well is use ChatGPT to break down some of the Linux scripting if you don't understand it or are unfamiliar with it. I also find asking ChatGPT to show me a flow chart of the script as well. It's about getting the right prompt some simple ones you can use for example are:

Can you demonstrate this bash script as a flowchart?

Sure! Here's a flowchart that shows the steps performed by the given Linux command

Is there a better more concise way of performing the same outcome for this script?

Stuff like that. Also realise that ChatGPT is a prize BS hitter so you need to read the response and follow the logic. Programming/Scripting is logical, does it make logical sense?

This gives you valuable insight into interacting with language models and utilising their processing power for analysis. Everyone needs these skills for the unknown future as what is known is AI/Machine Learning will be replacing a lot of skills. There is no Victorian Lamp Lighter anymore because electric light was invented and the infrastructure put in place. There are no video shops any more because of the Internet / DVDs / BluRays. Eventually the Internet replaced optical media as the primary source of watching media etc etc. So new jobs will emerge. Anyway gone off on a tangent. Utilise LLM (Large Language Models) as tools to help you. (edited)

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For when you hit the device limit which with the way my IoT network is going is quite likely to happen sooner than I originally thought it would.

As a dedicated repeater you also have the advantage that you can place it nearly anywhere, when you use a bulb for example as a repeater it's generally going to be fixed in place and can't really move. A detached garage or outbuilding that requires Zigbee network access therefore may not be reached that way easily. If you can make it work in your home without a second then obviously there's benefits but there are always going to be outside use cases.

HA will integrate with the Hue hub. I still use Hue, but am looking to decouple myself from different bridges in the future hence my reason for purchase.