Zigbee Home is an ESPHome-like firmware project for Zigbee devices
Zigbee Home is an ESPHome-like firmware project for Zigbee devices
Zigbee Home firmware project aims to provide similar functionality to ESPHome open-source firmware, but for Zigbee devices based on Nordic Semi nRF52 wireless microcontrollers, and later on the newer nRF53 MCUs. The firmware relies on Nordic Semi ZBOSS for Zigbee 3.0 stack and should eventually ena...
In case anyone knows: I recently bought a ZigBee home thermostat at a thrift store for $2. I have Home Assistant running on a RPi4. Is there currently a way to get these devices talking to each other without buying more hardware?
I'll have to check if there is a new preferred option or if the firmware still needs to be replaced before use, but when I got mine set up I got this sonoff USB zigbee dongle and it's running all my ghetto hack zigbee devices like my stock garage opener with zigbee relay parallel with the wall button, a bunch of ad to DC crap connecting things like moisture and humidity sensors and ceiling fans in the bathroom, flood sensor under the dishwasher, etc.
Edit: random other note, I read somewhere that people were having better battery life on battery powered zigbee devices with mosquito and zigbee2mqtt over zha which I am currently using. When I get the time to finish reworking my home lab I'll be testing it myself.
No. Rpi4 can't speak zigbee without more hardwarz.
Further down the rabbit hole I go, I suppose. Thanks!
You need a Zigbee coordinator. A USB stick to plug in. Get the Sky connect and you'll be future proofed with thread support as well.
Okay, this is the part that confused me. Thanks, I'll check it out!