ESP-32 H2/C6 Zigbee

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hi, i’m quite new to the game :wave:

i want to create my own sensors and integrate it in my homeassistant. But the position where they’re going to be located isn’t covered by my wifi (so esphome isn’t a option). instead the position is covered by the network of my brother in law ( who also has hoa running with a SM light SLZB-06 coordinator) so i could get the zigbee devices over that via the VPN function. so i read the ESP32 H2/C6 have the zigbee possibility. But everything i find about the zigbee end device example ist only to a zigbee h2 or c6 as a coordinator.

Is there no possibility to configure the esp as an end device and then connect to a SLZB-06 or sonoff stick?

thank you all in advanced and sorry for the long story :face_with_head_bandage:

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  1. Switch your SLZB-06 to Matter-over-Thread mode
  2. Create your Matter-over-Thread end-device on ESP32-S3 with no code knowledges based on newly released ESP IDF
  3. Use it on your remote lication.

Here is Espressif zerocode Matter Over Thread tool https://zerocode.espressif.com/

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It might not be that simple b cause Matter has a strict device structure, so the sensor needs to be able to fit into that to be Matter compatible.

The original idea with a C6/H2 as zigbee end device is valid though. It is actually what the C6 was designed for. The other features just came after the release.
H2 started also as a Zigbee device, but already in the design process it was changed to a Matter device. A C6 can be set up to run as a Matter device too and a H2 can also be set up as a Zigbee device.

ESPHome does not support these models though, so you will have to find the code to do it else where.

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Not a direct reply to your question but on the matter of adding a new device, please see my post at Seeed Xiao ESP32S3 Sense board name not recognised - #10 by AussieSusan where I mention the files that need to be copied/edited/etc.
No guarantee but it certainly got my ESP32-S3 working.
Susan

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Hi, my simple GitHub - DmytroML/ESP36C6_Zigbee_PZEM-004t. You can use it as an example.

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I flashed Zigbee “end device” examples from

to the H2 and C6 devkit clones I have. My Home Assistant installation using ZHA with a SONOFF ZigBee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus P (ZBDongle-P) as the Zigbee coordinator had no problems adding and paring these devices via Zigbee.

So there is no requirement for using either an ESP32-H2 or ESP32-C6 as the Zigbee coordinator.

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@Abdull I wonder how the usage of ESPhome will be to establish sensors on the ESP32-C6 using the Zigbee-Protokoll. Do you have any experiences here? Would be nice to learn more about it.
Thanks

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Hi, first of all, thank you for sharing your project. I’ve been struggling for almost a month with creating a metering device. I’m happy to use yours and modify it. I tested your code today, and everything went well. However, I’m having a problem pairing the device with my existing Zigbee network. I’m using an SLZB-06M as a Zigbee coordinator, integrated via Mosquitto and Zigbee2MQTT in Home Assistant. The interview is not successful. Do you have any hints for me? Or maybe you’re able to share your converter .yml?