Lidl has released a bunch of inexpensive Zigbee 3.0 certified smart devices

No that is what Lidl has rebranded it to and is selling as, but that is not the OEM or white-label product.

The device itself has probably been manufacturers by Tuya or some other company as a OEM or white-label product that was meant to be rebranded by many companies. So I really mean the model of internal circuit board if you break open the control-box. Those are the type of pictures that you will see at for example the FCC.

As an example here it what the example of what is inside the Lidl gateway when sold by a other company in the USA so that it had to go throiugh FCC approval:

https://fccid.io/2ANDL-TYGWZ01

https://fccid.io/2ANDL-TYZS4

As you can see there they some times do not even use the same enclosure when rebranding OEM and white-label products but the internal circuit boards will usually be the same as the original product. Read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-label_product

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_equipment_manufacturer

plus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_design_manufacturer

also see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_manufacturer

No way to know for sure unless crack it open all the way into its juicy center.

Does someone has the power/usb socket(dont know how to call it) component already working with zigbee2mqtt?

USB-tafelcontactdoos - Lidl - www.lidl.nl

According to this :

HG06338 Silvercrest 3 gang switch, possibly with USB

Ah, didnt even look there. Thanks!

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 canā€™t see that thereā€™s anyway of turning off the usb ports as thereā€™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 didnā€™t get any of the door sensors or motion sensors !

Thats correct. You only switch the 240V outlets.

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Iā€™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 ā€œhacking the Tuya Zigbee gateway / Lidl Zigbee gateway with third-party firmwareā€ as that is really a whole separate discussion.

OpenLumi is doing something similar with an OpenWRT fork the Xiaomi/Aquara Zigbee bridge:

https://github.com/openlumi

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 brightnessā€¦ Iā€™d like to be able to control the effect. For now, I will probably just plug the old fashioned lights into a smart switchā€¦ I canā€™t imagine the next version of one of these christmas lights wouldnā€™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?

Iā€™ve seen on internet reverse engineered API for Twinkly. All effects are loaded to device in form of ā€˜movieā€™ 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 ā€˜position independentā€™ to look goodā€¦ so sort of light snakes, sparkles etc. So even ā€˜simpleā€™ 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 Iā€™m not that impressed. The motion sensors have a trigger delay and also canā€™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) donā€™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 donā€™t seem to experience the flicker but lowest brightness is still too bright.

Love to hear the experience with the bulbs from othersā€¦