Do you have any problematic Zigbee devices that have issues connecting with or operating under HE? If so then you could set up an instance of HomeAssistant (HA) + that dongle and then pair the devices to HA and connect them to HE via the community HomeAssistant Bridge app & driver.
Of course you could set up HA anyway for fun and learning... might give you an appreciation for the overall simplicity of HE - 
To be fair HA is great initially but the further you go the more complicated it can get. Definitely a large rabbit hole and time suck. Lots of cool stuff though.
