Howdy @Purclewan , @Colin, and @TotallyInformation ! Sorry for the hiatus in resolving this thread. Too many fish in fryer, but looking forward to getting back with this soon. Finally succeeded in installing Debian on my HP2000 (Best install procedure for installing Debian on laptop exclusively dedicated to running Node Red - #2 by Colin ) and hardware is destined to arrive within the next 2 days. I ordered a SONOFF ZigBee 3.0, a Decora Smart Plug-In Single Outlet, Zigbee Certified, and 3 of the Aqara RTCGQ11LM. Securing Node-red has been my next step and @jbudd helped me with a small hurdle. Look here Node red admin login failed (running on hp2000) - #2 by jbudd if curious! Will post soon! Many thanks again!!