diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3381ad9b35..b31f4888c8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ python-dateutil
 tz
 frozendict
 requests
-sqlalchemy
+sqlalchemy<2.0.0
 bcrypt
 rsa
-zeroconf
+zeroconf>=0.27.0
 paho-mqtt
 websocket-client
 croniter
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e903162207..5545d498c2 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ setup(
         'redis',
         'requests',
         'croniter',
-        'sqlalchemy',
+        'sqlalchemy<2.0.0',
         'websockets',
         'websocket-client',
         'wheel',