Universal zigbee gateway

[hijinx (James)]

@h4nc

Thanks @hijinx for that kind recommendation.

Both of your options “talking too me” and “ebay kleinanzeigen” will end up in contacting me, because the ad at ebay kleinanzeigen is also mine.

Sure you’re welcome. I knew both are you

[Akriss (kris)]

@hijinx, I like your ready made option. I really like the SMA connector mod.

Did you cut off the trace antenna (at some point) to use the external option? or left it as is?

It sort of looks as if it’s cut between the two right most pins of the SMA connector.(as seen from the ebay pic’s) and the remaining antenna trace is connected to the GND of the SMA connector. It that correct?

[h4nc]

@hijinx

I knew both are you

I already thought that but wanted to make it clear for everyone.

@Akriss yes the traces are cut the way you described it. I think the pictures pretty much describe themselves.
Now all you need are the right tools and parts for it to do that mod. Have fun.

[Akriss (kris)]

Solder iron or hot air?

Please say hot air.
I may use this as a good excuse to buy a inexpensive hot air reworking station.

[h4nc]

I use a solder iron, you can probably also use a hot air gun.

[andordavoti]

I have tried both firmwares and even purchased ikea trådfri plugsockets for routers.

But to me it’s unclear how to pair to routers, how do I know where trafic goes? How do I unpair devices?

I hav reflashed the usb sniffer four times and only worked the first time, but I wanted to add more than 15 devices so i tried the firmware for 44 devices, but it didn’t seem to work.

So to sum up I am just really confused with zigbee and just want everything to work:))

[hijinx (James)]

TBH I agree with you. I think this is one of the areas where zigbee2mqtt is not strong - documentation is often a problem with rapidly evolving open source projects
You pair a router just like any other device.
But once you have routers paired it is not clear (at least to me) how devices device whether to pair with a router or the coordinator.
If you didnt yet install it, you should add the zigbee network map addon. Its v useful to see your network.

Zigbee2mqtt: show the networkmap in home assistant

I was looking for a simple solution to display the network map of zigbee2mqtt in hassio without the need of graphviz. I found the great project viz.js and decided to write a simple custom_component with a service that updates and creates the corresponding files in my www folder. [map] Important: you have to clear the browsercache after each update Instructions Download or clone https://github.com/rgruebel/ha_zigbee2mqtt_networkmap Copy “custom_components/zigbee2mqtt_networkmap” and co…

[andordavoti]

I also installed that and got it up and running. But then devices wouldn’t connect anymore. So I just gave up and went back to the xiaomi gateway which randomly speaks Chinese…

I think zigbee2mqtt has a lot of potential, but I don’t want to spend more time trying to figure it out.

Have you tried any other better options?

[11139 (Lenar Mahmutov)]

Hi all. If anyone is interested, then we started developing a universal open-source hardware gateway, based on esp32 and NXP JN5169/68, or you can use Zigate board with its firmware

lmahmutov/ESP32-JN5169

But comments to code only Russian ) Ssory

[mercenaruss (Radu)]

How is going with this?