Silabs series 2 router in Home Assistant
Hubs & gateways · Zigbee · Silabs series 2 adapter with router firmware
Zigbee2MQTT has a definition for this device. ZHA has no quirk for it – many devices work in ZHA without one, but features outside the Zigbee standard may be missing.
Facts about this device
- Brand
- Silabs
- Model
- Silabs series 2 router
- Device type
- Hubs & gateways
- Radio
- Zigbee
- Reports itself as
- Aeotec, easyiot, Inswift, NabuCasa, SMLIGHT, SONOFF, SparkFun, TubesZB, EGONY
- Zigbee2MQTT
- Device page on zigbee2mqtt.io
Where to buy
How the device gets into Home Assistant
- official ZHA – with a Zigbee coordinator and the ZHA integration. A device that follows the Zigbee standard works without a quirk; how completely this model does is not confirmed.
- add-on Zigbee2MQTT – Zigbee2MQTT runs as an add-on and passes the device on to Home Assistant over MQTT.
Known problems and fixes
Open problems
- open The SLZB-06MU ESP32 bridge causes communication timeouts with Zigbee devices when forming a network.
- open Reported problem #177394
- open Reported problem #165573
- open Reported problem #162157
- open The LED on the ZBT-2 device does not function as expected because some entities are missing.
Changes proposed for ZHA
- pull request A pull request suggests removing a non-functional light entity for the Sonoff Dongle-PMG24 router. This would prevent incorrect light-related errors in Home Assistant.
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.5.4 Bug fix #171828
- fixed in 2026.5.2 Bug fix #169879
- fixed in 2025.11.0 Bug fix #155735
ZHA quirks for this device
There is no quirk for this device – neither in ZHA nor proposed or shared as a custom quirk.
Alternatives
The same job from other makers – devices of the same type and radio that work with Home Assistant too.
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SMLIGHT SLZB-06M
Hubs & gateways · Zigbee · Router
Zigbee2MQTT
2 open reports
Review
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SONOFF ZBDongle-E
Hubs & gateways · Zigbee · Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus (EFR32MG21) with router firmware
Zigbee2MQTT
Review
- CEL CGW-Z-0010 Hubs & gateways · Zigbee · Cortet range extender Zigbee2MQTT Review
Sources: Zigbee2MQTT, ZHA quirks, Z-Wave JS, the Matter certification database, Shelly, ESPHome, Tasmota, Tuya Local and the issue trackers on GitHub. Reports are assigned to a device by the identifiers they contain; the sentences come from the integration pages, where a language model writes them from the titles.