Hyper-V, USBIP & Home Assistant
I recently purchased a number of Zigbee 3 bulbs to install around my house, but unfortunately the Philips Hue hub seems to be locked down to only support lights from their preferred manufacturers. So, I’ve started setting up Home Assistant, installed within a Hyper-V virtual machine. The idea is to eventually replace the Hue hub with a more flexible and less expensive system. Home Assistant supports loads of Zigbee gateways, so I grabbed a Sonoff Dongle P from Amazon. This…