Develco Frient ZigBee Devices Experience

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Has anyone tried out the Develco Frient ZigBee devices with ZHA?

I’ve ordered a couple of devices to test it out. But I was curious if anyone was already using them.

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I was interested in this as well. Looking to buy their zigbee electricity meter and was wondering how well it would integrate.

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I’ve bought a few devices… made a GitHub issue.

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Hey @Veldkornet have you managed to write a quirk for the smoke sensor? I am very new into this, go a couple of these sensors and only the temperature works. Thanks.

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Nope, but if you check the GitHub issue I made and it’s links, some other people have made some progress.

I’m waiting for it to be put into ZHA though.

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So I’m having real issue connecting and I am not prepared to spend the time one ‘quirks’. I’m just looking for smoke detectors that work with ZHA. Any suggestions?

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Honnestly? I’ve ended to switch to zigbee2mqtt, with a much better compatibility :slight_smile:
(so to answer your quesiton : no idea)

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Thanks for the feedback.

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The battery values on the smoke detector are weird. It shows as ‘unavailable’ but provides attributes that make no sense. The UOM is ‘%’ but the battery_voltage attribute reports 2.9. I know that the nominal voltage is 3V, so I just created a template sensor that reports:

{{ state_attr('my_smoke_detector','battery_voltage') / 0.03 }}
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I’ve now switched to zigbee2mqtt as well and it all seems to be working okay.

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The electricity meter and the smart cable is working. The devices are stable in the Zigbee network, and I experience no problems. Are using ZHA.

However, as mentioned below there are some small stuff. Like additionally created switches (I just disable them) and annoying low numbers in the LQI on the network. Not sure the reporting on the LQI is correct, as it is stable, however strange.

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Purchased the electricity meter about a year ago now. Decided to use zigbee2mqtt which had worked flawlessly.

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HI.Someone would be willing to run my Friewnt Elecricity meter via TeamViewer?I’m a complete amateur and I can’t do it myself.Something is measured, but the values are wrong.Thank you so much!

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Has anyone tried the alarm keypad KEPZB-110 with ZHA?

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Not using ZHA, but I have got that exact keypad working using zigbee2mqtt. Here’s the automation to arm it, seems pretty simple:

alias: House | Alarm | Arm
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: mqtt
    topic: zigbee2mqtt/Keypad
condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: '{{ ''arm_all_zones'' in trigger.payload_json.action }}'
action:
  - service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm_away
    data:
      code: '{{trigger.payload_json.action_code}}'
    target:
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm
mode: single

The setup hasn’t been running for that long, but so far I’ve had no issues.

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I can vouch for Develco on Z2M. They’re expensive products to purchase as their B2B model wants you to buy samples in non-material quantities. They’re performant, a bit chatty and are not sexy like Aqara’s sensors are. If you’re not hung-up on Zigbee 3.0 certified, I think you would be perfectly happy with Aqara’s off-the-shelf sensors.

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Does anyone have the “intelligent” alarms working? Ie, if one Smoke alarm goes off, they all go off?

What’s the correct way to make this happen? Add them all to a group?

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Have there been any progress in this matter? I have a smoke alarm and are unable to control it from HA. As others have mentioned in this issue: ZHA Develco Frient Devices · Issue #49127 · home-assistant/core · GitHub I can see that there is a siren, a battery that is 100% and a temperature. The temperature works, but nothing else. Turning on the siren in HA does nothing.

I have also tried to update the firmware, but got the error:
“VauleError: Cluster 25 not fount in endpoint 1 whie issuing command 0”

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I’ve not been impressed with these thus far. I’ve got 5 motion sensor pros and non pros, all but one still able to pair. Not sure what’s wrong with these.

I got them as they use normal AA batteries, which are easier to find. I also have 1 door sensor which is still working fine.

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Never tried ZHA with the friend smoke alarm. I can confirm it works in Z2M, with smoke alarm, manual siren and number of other sensors like temp.