Pls help me with Zigbee dongle CC2531 and NR4

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Hi, I bought in past a CC2531 dongle and probably I bought it already flashed, I would test a Zigbee Tuya button for start a NR automation, I can find a ton of infos about this chip but I'm afraid it's hard to find the right infos for my case.

I'm running NR on Win10, I can recognize the dongle as COM serial port @9600 boud, is it correct?
I tried to install Zigbee contrib module but it returns error, probably is not compatible with my nodejs version? The project is abandoned, they recomend to switch to Zigbee2mqtt but then I need a bridge between COM port and IP protocol, I've found Koenkk zigbee2mqtt project but Igot an error when instlaling it (pnpm not found)

Error: Command failed: pnpm run prepack
"pnpm" non e riconosciuto come comando interno o esterno,
 un programma eseguibile o un file batch.

so which other chances I have to get button events on NR? Thank you!

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If you follow the documentation here Windows | Zigbee2MQTT you should install Node.js 22 LTS from their website. This includes corepack which when run (corepack enable) installs pnpm.

I haven't done this but I would think that this must work.

You will also have to install an MQTT broker, this is also mentioned on the above page.

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if node-red is already running on this system, you can use npm install instead.

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Ditch the 2531, they are rubbish and were superceded long ago by the CC2652.

Then install zigbee2mqtt as others have suggested.

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Thank you mates for help, really appreciated! I've menaged to install pnpm using this: npm install -g pnpm
anyway I needed also to update nodejs to the latest version.
Now it's running, I need to connect a MQTT broker, I'll do it shortly