# Running Tasmota zbbridge - can I address it directly from Node-RED?

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**Created:** [25 December 2023 22:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/running-tasmota-zbbridge-can-i-address-it-directly-from-node-red/84027 "2023-12-25T22:55:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [25 December 2023 22:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/running-tasmota-zbbridge-can-i-address-it-directly-from-node-red/84027/1 "2023-12-25T22:55:34Z")

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Sorry for the possibly stupid post title.

I have a Sonoff Zigbee Bridge with Tasmota installed, and it's set to Zigbee2MQTT mode. I have installed Zigbee2MQTT as an add-on in Home Assistant, but although I think it's configured correctly and indeed it works a lot of the time and publishes sensor data to MQTT which I can see in Node-RED, I'm finding it unreliable as the HA add-on regularly crashes. I haven't been able to resolve that. I have run through the [troubleshooting](https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/installation/20_zigbee2mqtt-fails-to-start.html).

Does anyone have any tips on this, e.g. should I just fire up a new VM and install Zigbee2MQTT on its own Linux instance?

Is there some equivalent plugin that I can run within Node-RED?

My aim is simply to be able to do the following:

1. Publish sensor data to MQTT topics that I define
2. Be able to configure various sensors

Previously I had the Sonoff Bridge running Tasmota in a different mode, whereby Tasmota itself would send out the MQTT messages. There was no need for Zigbee2MQTT. But I was finding this cumbersome and I couldn't decode various different sensors. I quite liked Zigbee2MQTT as it provides a nice UI for configuring the sensors' parameters.

Thanks

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**Post date:** [24 February 2024 19:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/running-tasmota-zbbridge-can-i-address-it-directly-from-node-red/84027/3 "2024-02-24T19:50:10Z")

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