# Raspbee II hat with RPi 4 and HA **URL:** \ **Category:** Advice\ **Created:** [February 5, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.phoscon.de/t/raspbee-ii-hat-with-rpi-4-and-ha/4596 "2024-02-05T23:05:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/u/harphacker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.phoscon.de/t/raspbee-ii-hat-with-rpi-4-and-ha/4596/1 "2024-02-05T23:05:06Z")
Hello, new here. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspbian Version 12 (bookworm) and have been trying to bring up a Raspbee ii on it. I made this change to the config.txt: enable\_uart=1 and dtoverlay=pi3-miniuart-bt as suggested in the documentation for deconZ in HA. The Raspbee II never comes up as connected. I have tried various combinations of the config.txt settings, as I understand that the Bluetooth needs to be disabled. Can anyone at deCONZ give me the magic formula for running the Raspbee II? I know that the Raspbee II I am using works, because I have it running on a Pi Zero 2W. The Conbee stick works fine. Thanks for any help. ---
**Author:** ![harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/u/harphacker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.phoscon.de/t/raspbee-ii-hat-with-rpi-4-and-ha/4596/2 "2024-02-05T23:17:40Z")
Here is the log from the deCONZ add-on. When I first start the add-on it says : The add-on seems to not be ready, it might still be starting. Do you want to try again? Log: 18:13:36:747 DB cleanup 18:13:36:748 DB create temporary views 18:13:36:815 [INFO] - Timezone read is ‘Etc/UTC’ 18:13:36:815 [INFO] - Environment variable TZ found: America/New\_York… 18:13:36:817 Started websocket server on 0.0.0.0, port: 8081 18:13:36:817 create default username and password 18:13:36:820 [INFO] - Found file containing button maps. Parsing data… 18:13:36:829 [INFO] - Button maps loaded. 18:13:36:830 found node plugin: libde\_rest\_plugin.so - REST API Plugin 18:13:36:831 found node plugin: libde\_signal\_plugin.so - Signal Monitor Plugin 18:13:36:843 OTAU: create 117C-1101-23089631.zigbee 18:13:36:844 OTAU: create 117C-11C5-24040006.zigbee 18:13:36:849 OTAU: create 117C-2201-23087631.zigbee 18:13:36:850 OTAU: create 117C-2803-23093631.zigbee 18:13:36:851 OTAU: create 117C-2801-23086631.zigbee 18:13:36:853 OTAU: create 117C-2203-23087631.zigbee 18:13:36:854 OTAU: create 117C-1187-24040013.zigbee 18:13:36:855 OTAU: create 117C-1102-23086631.zigbee 18:13:36:856 OTAU: create 117C-4204-23095631.zigbee 18:13:36:858 OTAU: create 117C-11C8-20022623.zigbee 18:13:36:859 OTAU: create 1189-0019-00102428.zigbee 18:13:36:871 found node plugin: libstd\_otau\_plugin.so - STD OTAU Plugin 18:13:37:085 dlg action: Read binding table 18:13:37:895 dev /dev/ttyAMA0 18:13:37:896 COM: /dev/ttyAMA0 / serialno: , RaspBee 18:13:38:846 dev /dev/ttyAMA0 18:13:38:847 COM: /dev/ttyAMA0 / serialno: , RaspBee 18:13:42:153 dev /dev/ttyAMA0 18:13:42:820 dev /dev/ttyAMA0 18:13:42:821 COM: /dev/ttyAMA0 / serialno: , RaspBee 18:13:43:249 Announced to internet [https://phoscon.de/discover](https://phoscon.de/discover) 18:13:43:249 discovery server date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:13:43 GMT 18:13:43:250 local time seems to be ok 18:13:43:821 dev /dev/ttyAMA0 18:13:43:822 COM: /dev/ttyAMA0 / serialno: , RaspBee 18:13:45:220 DEV Tick.Init: booted after 8000 seconds 18:13:47:861 dev /dev/ttyAMA0 18:13:47:861 COM: /dev/ttyAMA0 / serialno: , RaspBee 18:13:48:820 dev /dev/ttyAMA0 18:13:48:821 COM: /dev/ttyAMA0 / serialno: , RaspBee 18:13:52:320 dev /dev/ttyAMA0 18:13:52:819 dev /dev/ttyAMA0 18:13:52:820 COM: /dev/ttyAMA0 / serialno: , RaspBee 18:13:53:851 dev /dev/ttyAMA0 18:13:53:852 COM: /dev/ttyAMA0 / serialno: , RaspBee 18:13:56:799 start reconnect to network 18:13:57:820 dev /dev/ttyAMA0 18:13:57:820 COM: /dev/ttyAMA0 / serialno: , RaspBee ---
**Author:** ![manup](https://forum.phoscon.de/user_avatar/forum.phoscon.de/manup/32/9_2.png) [@manup](https://forum.phoscon.de/u/manup)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.phoscon.de/t/raspbee-ii-hat-with-rpi-4-and-ha/4596/3 "2024-02-05T23:18:03Z")
One of my test setups is the same. Usually you only need to configure the serial port via `raspi-config` as described in the steps “deCONZ installation” [https://phoscon.de/en/raspbee2/install#deconz-installation](https://phoscon.de/en/raspbee2/install#deconz-installation) Does this work? ---
**Author:** ![harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/u/harphacker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.phoscon.de/t/raspbee-ii-hat-with-rpi-4-and-ha/4596/4 "2024-02-05T23:24:57Z")
No it does not. I’m starting to suspect that the serial port GPIO pins are not working. ---
**Author:** ![harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/u/harphacker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.phoscon.de/t/raspbee-ii-hat-with-rpi-4-and-ha/4596/5 "2024-02-05T23:26:10Z")
Would you still have the config.txt settings? ---
**Author:** ![manup](https://forum.phoscon.de/user_avatar/forum.phoscon.de/manup/32/9_2.png) [@manup](https://forum.phoscon.de/u/manup)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.phoscon.de/t/raspbee-ii-hat-with-rpi-4-and-ha/4596/6 "2024-02-05T23:35:05Z")
[config.txt](https://forum.phoscon.de/uploads/short-url/ijYvCsdoJWcy7IYxY3Y8MaarZlY.txt) (2.1 KB) This is the config currently active on my setup which is connected via `/dev/ttyS0` aka `/dev/serial0`. Could it be that another instance of deCONZ is running? To be checked with: `pidof deCONZ` ---
**Author:** ![harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/u/harphacker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.phoscon.de/t/raspbee-ii-hat-with-rpi-4-and-ha/4596/7 "2024-02-05T23:45:54Z")
OK I will take out the line dtoverlay=pi3-miniuart-bt and use ttyS0 instead of ttyAMA0 ---
**Author:** ![harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/u/harphacker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.phoscon.de/t/raspbee-ii-hat-with-rpi-4-and-ha/4596/8 "2024-02-06T02:43:20Z")
Still doesn’t work. No response from Raspbee. I tried what you suggested, only one instance running. It must be a problem with the RPi hardware. ---
**Author:** ![manup](https://forum.phoscon.de/user_avatar/forum.phoscon.de/manup/32/9_2.png) [@manup](https://forum.phoscon.de/u/manup)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.phoscon.de/t/raspbee-ii-hat-with-rpi-4-and-ha/4596/9 "2024-02-06T10:20:39Z")
Is the Raspberry Pi 4 using the sd-card or an SSD/USB for storage? The latter can cause some heavy interference. In my setup I’m using a USB dongle for storage, but had to move it away from the Raspberry Pi by using a USB extension cable. On a lower level you can also check connectivity to the RaspBee with GCFFlasher (with deCONZ closed): ```auto pi@rpi4:~ $ GCFFlasher_internal -d /dev/serial0 -c packet: 8 bytes, 0701000800A20000 packet: 8 bytes, 0702000800A20000 ``` The packet lines are shown when something is received from the firmware. ---
**Author:** ![harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@harphacker](https://forum.phoscon.de/u/harphacker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.phoscon.de/t/raspbee-ii-hat-with-rpi-4-and-ha/4596/10 "2024-02-06T12:02:33Z")
I don’t appear to have the GCFFlasher installed. There is no USB. The Pi simply does not appear to have connectivity. Thanks for all your help. I think I’m going to try another pi, there must be something wrong with the serial port on this one.