Hue Tap problem with Zigbee2MQTT

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Hello!
I just moved my Hue lights to Zigbee2MQTT with a sonoff zigbee 3.0 usb dongle plus-E.
My lights all work but I did not manage to pair my hue tap switch (https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/8718696743133.html#philips-8718696743133) which should be compatible.

I followed the steps in the wiki.
I have my network on channel 11, so I pressed button 1 for 10 seconds but nothing.
I also tried all other buttons, just to be sure.

I tried it close to lights, I tried it far from a light.
I had the pairing allowed for all devices or only the one I was close to.

I also do not see anything in the logs of Z2M.

I just repaired my old hue bridge and there the switch works, so the hardware itself is not broken.

Does anybody have an idea what I could do to troubleshoot here?

Nio

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ZIgbee2mqtt ezsp support is still tagged as experimental. There’s been a fair amount of discussion since the ZBDongle-E release, and pairing problems have been reported.

I would first try the dev branch. There have been some recent pairing related changes merged for ezsp.

If that doesn’t work, probably best to open an issue at Issues · Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt (github.com). Go ahead and post zigbee2mqtt and zigbee herdsman debug logs of a pairing attempt.

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Oh!
That is a good point! Did not think about the still experimental support.
I will try the dev branch later today and maybe get a debug log from both branches.

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FYI, need to know Philips Hue Tap Switch is a “Zigbee Green Power” (ZGP, a.k.a. GreenPower) device.

As mentioned, Silicon Labs EZSP (“EmberZNet Serial Protocol”) based adapter support is still experimental in Zigbee2MQTT, and while Silabs EFR32MG1x/EFR32MG2x hardware and firmware do have support “Zigbee Green Power” (ZGP, a.k.a. GreenPower) the ezsp adapter/driver code in the zigbee-herdsman library which Zigbee2MQTT depends on does not yet support “Zigbee Green Power” (ZGP, a.k.a. GreenPower) which Philips Hue Tap and a few other “Friends of Hue” batteryless devices uses, see development here → https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman/issues/319

So for now you need a Texas Instruments z-stack (CC2652 or CC1352 based) adapter/driver or if you are a Python developer yourself then you could help with coding for the project by mapping the correct missing frames needed for “Zigbee Green Power” (ZGP, a.k.a. GreenPower) into the ezsp adapter/driver code → https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman/tree/master/src/adapter/ezsp so in conclusion the ezsp software code need some development work to specifically add “Zigbee Green Power” (ZGP, a.k.a. GreenPower) support → https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman/search?q=green plus both more developers as well as more testers activly helping out on improving that ezsp adapter/driver code in the zigbee-herdsman library.

Again, “Zigbee Green Power” (ZGP, a.k.a. GreenPower) is already supported by the z-stack adapter/driver (for Texas Instruments CC2652 or CC1352 based dongles), see https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman/pull/92 and https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/issues/3322

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Thanks for the detailed answer!
That makes sense, if the unerlaying lib does not support ZGP it wont work :wink:

I do in fact code in python but I have no experience in this sort of thing, but I will look into it!

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That would be awesome! I am sure that kirovilya could help point you in the right directing on where to begin → https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman/issues/319 I’m not skilled enough with coding myself but I guess that it is probably not as complex as it sounds because as I understand what is really needed is to match and map the EZSP and Ash command already used by the z-stack adapter/driver in the zigbee-herdsman library the same way in the ezsp adapter/driver in the zigbee-herdsman library following the official Silicon Labs documentation for EmberZNet Zigbee. See https://docs.silabs.com/zigbee/7.0/zigbee-af-api/component and maybe start reading https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/user-guides/ug392-using-sl-green-power-with-ezp.pdf as well as checking this reference collection of Silabs Zigbee stack documentation and related dev docks. Reference collections for Zigbee Stack and related dev docks. · zigpy/zigpy · Discussion #595 · GitHub

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Thanks for the pointers!

I’ll try to see if I can get involved :slight_smile:

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