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Alright, I'll get a zigbee dongle then.
Thanks for the replies.
For zigbee dongles, take a look at the SLZB-06. I used a sonoff usb dongle at first (which was fine), but then switched to the slzb which works nicer and lets you run it independently from your home assistant machine over Ethernet (you can still use usb if you like though).
I have like 50 ikea zigbee lights running off mine (plus the same amount of other zigbee stuff) and it works super stable with zigbee2mqtt.
I have the opposite experience, slzb-06 has been unreliable and I got zbt-2 recently and it's a day and night difference. I had to keep slzb-06 connected to one of these devices that power cycle every 24 hours. It also lost settings more than once. Zbt-2 just works.
I use Home Assistant's own Connect ZBT-1 and ZHA. It works well with my ~40 zigbee devices.