Connect ZBT-1 (formerly Sky Connect) doesn't show up on any system PLUS VID:PID not unique

Hardware
1

At this point I’m not sure the VID:PID issue matters, as the device doesn’t show up on any computer. Not on my Unraid nor ProxMox servers at all (SuperMicro 2x Xeon X9DRI-LN4F+ and i5-12400 ASRock Z690 Riptide/D5 mainboards) - so I can’t attach it to my HA VM in the first place.

The ZBT-1 doesn’t show up in an IOMMU list nor lsusb from a terminal. The other sticks from Zooz and Sonoff show up as expected on every plug.

It showed up briefly on my Macbook Air after I removed it from my Unraid system and kept showing up after multiple plug and unplug cycles. Now it doesn’t show up on any system.

VID:PID

Oh man, come on already. Why is ZBT-1 using Silicon Labs generic VID:PID which is the same as every other no-name radio product from other vendors?

HA doesn’t have its own VID? And couldn’t be bothered to give ZBT-1 its own PID?

Even I have my own USB VID registered with USB-IF for pete’s sake - and multiple PIDs baked into every Linux kernel going back 10 years.

Zooz Z-Wave sticks 10c4:ea60 - Silicon Labs CP210x UART Bridge
Sonoff Zigbee sticks 10c4:ea60 - Silicon Labs CP210x UART Bridge
Dozens of others? 10c4:ea60 - Silicon Labs CP210x UART Bridge?
Connect ZBT-1 10c4:ea60

This causes all sorts of identification and configuration issues setting up HA, VMs and the like. Ugh.

Rant over.

2

On host machine does dmesg reveal anything when ZBT-1 is plugged in?

3

No. Nothing. Only events for the Zooz and Sonoff sticks show up, for connect and disconnect.

Example:

[  159.005429] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=10c4, idProduct=ea60, bcdDevice= 1.00
[  159.005442] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  159.005447] usb 3-2: Product: Zooz ZST10 700 Z-Wave Stick
[  159.005451] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Silicon Labs
[  159.005455] usb 3-2: SerialNumber: 0001
[  159.014444] cp210x 3-2:1.0: cp210x converter detected
[  159.033707] usb 3-2: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[  298.917545] usb 3-2: USB disconnect, device number 4
[  298.917761] cp210x ttyUSB0: cp210x converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[  298.917807] cp210x 3-2:1.0: device disconnected
[  508.466604] usb 3-2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[  508.839546] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=10c4, idProduct=ea60, bcdDevice= 1.00
[  508.839559] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  508.839564] usb 3-2: Product: Zooz ZST10 700 Z-Wave Stick
[  508.839568] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Silicon Labs
[  508.839572] usb 3-2: SerialNumber: 0001
[  508.848565] cp210x 3-2:1.0: cp210x converter detected
[  508.867818] usb 3-2: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[  511.620837] usb 3-2: USB disconnect, device number 5
[  511.620981] cp210x ttyUSB0: cp210x converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[  511.621022] cp210x 3-2:1.0: device disconnected
4

Doesn’t look good does it… If its not the USB cable, and ZBT-1 doesn’t work in the same USB port that Zooz was plugged into, then I doubt its a USB power draw problem which is about the only thing left that I can think of.

5

Definitely doesn’t look good. All testing between the 3 devices was done with the same 3 working cables (cycling each device on/off each cable), plus without the use of any extension cable at all. :frowning:

The ZBT-1 was just delivered this morning and it’s going to put a small delay on my plans to roll out a duplicate VM on Proxmox for redundancy.