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I may ping you on the zigbee stuff. I have the exact same set-up, except that I went with ZWave. I recent came in possession of a few ZigBee devices, and have been unable to get them to work.
I tried, half-heartedly, and gave up because it's not that important, but I have a half dozen of these ZigBee widgets so I should probably figure it out.
In my experience the biggest hurdle to Zigbee devices is figuring out how to get them into pairing mode or proximity when pairing. Most of my headaches have been with it being unclear how to get them into pairing mode (Phillips bulbs are finnicky to pair unless you have a Hue remote, which will reset devices near it by holding the On+Off buttons down near the device you want to reset), or with devices wanting to be paired in close physical proximity to the root coordinator. For the latter, some devices seem to only want to pair if you're within a few meters of the Zigbee base, whereas others are perfectly happy to pair to whatever the nearest coordinator it can talk to. Xiaomi and Samsung devices seemed to be the main offenders for that one.
It's a lot smoother nowadays though, as Zigbee has become a lot more standardized. It's been a while since I had any new Zigbee devices give me trouble setting up.