Zigbee2mqtt: getting rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges (Xiaomi, Hue, TRADFRI)

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Can developers do a video tutorial?

Demonstrate how the hardware is connected

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Thanks, but unfortunately I am pretty clueless about that side of things

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When the bits I ordered arrive from China I will have a go at this (I already created a few addons and provided repo to the community).

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I found hardware cheapier on ebay than aliexpress. So be sure to check all the usual places if you want the best price. Also, some sellers sell a bundle of USB sniffer and downloader cable so you can save on that. And it seems that there is a cheapier version of CC debugger without the case.

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I went with eBay, too.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F142243984141

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Iā€™m having trouble getting this running on a raspberry pi with fresh flash of latest Raspbian. With the stock node and npm packages it can get through the npm install with warnings but then wonā€™t start.

If I pull down the nodejs 10 packages the npm install fails with node-gyp build errors.

Any tips appreciated. Thanks!

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Can you provide a log?

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I retried with nodejs 9 (not 10) and it worked.

got an Xiamo Aqara water leak detector connected for testing. Not sure if this is the device or the zigbee2mqtt but I only get updates if I push the button on the device. Dropped it in a plate of water and got no update, but pushing the button tell me itā€™s detecting water.

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Never mind I let it sit in water for a while and it eventually reported. - But something is up, as it should report immediately when it detects water - saw it working on a youtube video.

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I have checked this but mine doesnā€™t report anything immediately

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this with the native app but:

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Thanks, Iā€™ve created an issue for it: https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/issues/17

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Koenkk excellent project!! Had a look through the wiki and code its awesome that people can just extend it by configuring convertors :))

Also many zigbee devices are already supported!!!

Great work!!!

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Excellent project!
before giving it a goā€¦
Could somebody confirm Aqara PIR sensors and door sensors reports open and close states, as opposed to generic rf sensors.
These states also translates to mqtt messages?

Thanks!

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Yes! Both the Aqara door and the PIR sensor report the closed/open, presence/no presence state via MQTT. Because the PIR sensor does not report the no presemce state, zigbee2mqtt generates this event after 3 minutes of no presence.

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There are other similar projects for multi-vendor zigbee gateways - ZiGate, deconz (maybe more that I am not aware of). It looks like all are taking slightly different approach, but I assume there must be some common concepts.
What is the possibility to pool support of new devices with these projects?
Currently both ZiGate and deconz are closed source (commercial) I think, so nothing available to reuse on github yet, but ZiGate is promising to go open ā€œsoonā€.
I have a number of Philips hue bulbs that are not supported but are in other projectsā€¦

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Support for more Hue bulbs can be added very easily to zigbee2mqtt. Just follow https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/wiki/How-to-support-new-devices , most of the things can be copied from the Hue Go (which is currently supported).

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Whatā€™s the range on the CC2531? That looks like a pretty small embedded antenna.

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Iā€™m hoping it should be ok because powered zigbee devices (bulbs, switches etc) create a mesh network

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possible stupid question: can a different zigbee dongle be used after setup or does it have to be the CC2531?