Did anyone manage to integrate the Silvercrest Zigbee Gateway in HA? I already used the Search but didnt find anything.
Thanks
Regards
Volker
Hi @Volker_Steiger, welcome to the HA community forums. The Original Poster (OP) asked in post 4 if we could keep this thread about the devices, not the gateway. Would you please create your own new thread, so you are more likely to get the answers you came looking for. Click on the Zigbee Tag then hit New Topic. Thanks!
Thanks and sorry. Didnt see that.
Yes, I bought the 3-way power strip along with the plug a few days ago - both paired successfully with my Zigbee2MQTT in a matter of seconds.
The three 240V sockets appear as different switches in Home Assistant.
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Nice! So you cannot switch the usb ports on and off?
I can confirm the light strip, single socket and 3 way power strip all paired instantly with Deconz
I can’t see that there’s anyway of turning off the usb ports as there’s only 3 plugs showing
The device manufacturer is showing as Heiman TS011F (both single and 3 way plug) and TS0505A for the lights
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Just got some of there Smart Bulbs and Plugs and can say they paired up nicely with Deconz and work very well with HA.
Not sure why the UK Lidl didn’t get any of the door sensors or motion sensors !
Thats correct. You only switch the 240V outlets.
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I’ve also bought the LED strip light in the UK and it paired up very easily with Deconz / Phoscon.
It comes with a 2m strip and can be extended by 2m. Does anyone reckon Lidl will sell the extension, or will we have to find a similar version somewhere else?
Even has 3M double sided tape on the back, which is more than can be said of the equivalent Philips Hue LED strip!!
The extension connector actually comes in the small cardboard box without the power plug in. I nearly threw it away!
It was shortly discussed in this other thread and the answer is not unless a developer hacks the Lidl/Tuya gateway and also creates a third-party firmware for the Lidl/Tuya gateway that which in turn could, for example, run a serial TCP server, etc. to then be able to remotely share and access UART to Zigbee coordinator SoC:
It would be a lot of work bit it is not impossible for a developer to code such third-party firmware for it.
However instead of posting about that there I suggest that you create a new thread to solely discuss “hacking the Tuya Zigbee gateway / Lidl Zigbee gateway with third-party firmware” as that is really a whole separate discussion.
OpenLumi is doing something similar with an OpenWRT fork the Xiaomi/Aquara Zigbee bridge:
Zigbee2Tasmota (Tasmota sub-project) done something similar with Sonoff ZBBridge Zigbee bridge
https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Zigbee/
Both those specific projects are however for different chip than what is in that Tuya / Lidl gateway.
Regardless I think third-party firmware discussion for the Lidl/Tuya gateway is off-topic for this thread.
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Unfortunately looks like Twinkly integration is also only on/off and brightness… I’d like to be able to control the effect. For now, I will probably just plug the old fashioned lights into a smart switch… I can’t imagine the next version of one of these christmas lights wouldn’t be able to control the effect too.
Hi,
did anyone get the motion sensor paired with a ConBee II Stick and a Phoscon Docker Container (deconz 2.07.00 / 15.11.2020 - Firmware 26680700).
Thank you very much!
I got the power strip with usb and motion sensor today. Managed to get the power strip working, but not the motion sensor.
it is pairing, but zigbee2mqtt says it is not supported, anyone has an idea?
I’ve seen on internet reverse engineered API for Twinkly. All effects are loaded to device in form of ‘movie’ that is pre-created on mobile device (but can be created also outside of application). Such movie contains detailed info which LED should be triggered at what point of time and with which color. Might be pretty lengthy sequence of commands. Trick is, that they have some smart algorithms to map effect to position of the led on the three via photo mapping process. Without this all what can be created and uploaded to device has to be ‘position independent’ to look good… so sort of light snakes, sparkles etc. So even ‘simple’ effect control, like choosing between predefined ones, is not selection of effect on device, but rather uploading this entire effect from app to device. I very much doubt it would be easy to recreate such functionality within HA.
Hi. Did you get it to work? Because I did exactly as you did and I got them added. Have you tried resetting them just to make they are in pairing mode?
I must say that after a few days of experience I’m not that impressed. The motion sensors have a trigger delay and also can’t detect motion when you are near them and below (sitting on the toilet). IKEA sensors have the same problem. The hue and aqara motion sensors are excellent at this (aqara has the upper hand).
The door sensors are rather snappy but have an irritating (at least I find that myself) red led that turns on briefly when in opened state and cannot be turned off. They are also very bulky compared to the aqara ones.
The white bulbs (ambience, all white tones) don’t give constant lighting but constantly flicker slightly. Very annoying. Also the white tones are off and at the lowest brightness they are still too bright.
The color bulbs don’t seem to experience the flicker but lowest brightness is still too bright.
Love to hear the experience with the bulbs from others…
I didn’t do anything special however it took me several retries to get them added. I also put them next to the zigbee stick when trying to pair which often helps.
I did not continue experimenting and returned my set to Lidl. I have a lot of Milight lamps at home and thought it would be more convenient to switch to lamps without the intervention of an extra hub and directly controlled by Zigbee. In the meantime, I’ve continued with Milight and finally gotten them working with HA. The esp8266 hub works fine in itself.
Anyone knows If the colored bulbs use separate white spectrum LEDs?
Got some tradfri bulbs at the moment, which don’t have it and white tones aren’t very good, so looking for a good alternative.
There are some new devices available from Lidl.
The irrigation controller (battery powered zigbee valve) looks interesting. Not mention the ceiling lamps and the bloom like lamp.
https://www.lidl-sklep.pl/q/search?q=zigbee&variant=g
Some garden lights available in Germany.