Perfect timing, just received the delivery of the bridge and used your video to flash it 👍 As usual great tutorial, easy to follow and informative. Thank you sir

"Don't bump it. Just sit still" - underrated advice.

After watching, I immediately ordered from ITead and it was finally delivered after about a month! I also picked up a variety of sensors as I have zero zigbee devices but I'm sick of the fragile and inconsistent z-wave integrations (errrr z-wave in general) with HomeAssistant. This video, along with the blog post (added some clarity that I needed) were great! The Zigbee temp/humidity sensor is working great and the range seems great; reaches my master bath from my network closet which is about 80 ft & 3 walls + 1 brick wall. My flashing process was a little finicky but overall smooth -- the USB to TTL device I had acted up after trying to take a backup of existing firmware via Tasmotizer.... but after unplugging it it started working again. Tip 1: I found some different cable sets on Amazon that included male-to-femaile as well as male-to-male wires in one set. This let me use a breadboard for joingin the grounds together instead of mucking with the way that is presented on the video. Tip2: BUT, these wires did not fit in the holes of the Sonoff Zigbee pcb nearly as easily as shown in the video. IN fact they didn't fit at all initially. But upon close inspection I could see that the male ends of the wire are folded over (not solit) so by squeezing them with pliers, to deform them, I was able to get them small enough to wedge into the PCB with a pretty solid connection and flashing went smoothly after that! I bought this wire kit: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GD2BWPY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

That is AWESOME. I think I'm ready to jump into Zigbee. I was on the fence and really love the available Zioami/Aquara stuff, but entry price with the hub kept me away. I have some shopping to do lol. Oh the zigbee!

really dig the quick flashes of overview of what will happen during the video at the start. More people should do that!

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It takes a little time but I try to do it from time to time. I really like the chapters feature in KZread now on the time line.

Ordered a Zigbee bridge today and some sensors, KZread later recommended this video (coincidence?) Great video as always.

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect!

Thanks for another really useful video. Had to wait a while to get my bridge from itead and also ordered door sw, movement and temp sensors. Took me about an hour to flash etc, but then I did solder the ftdi leads first. The Sonoff sensors added really easily, but an Aqara temp/humidity/air pressure sensor took many attempts before adding. I almost gave up with it after around fifteen goes. After pressing its pairing button for 5s and letting go, it flashes once if not paired and three quick ones when it works.

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I had to try several times too on those. Someone else said if they are too close it causes an issue?

Great video, thanks for the help on discord the other day. Mine is running very nicely. Some issues picking up a couple of sensors I had stuck around. Resolved those by plugging the bridge into a battery pack and bringing the sensor to the sensor (I’d stuck them down) .

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

Good to hear

Another great video, thank you. My Sonoff zb bridge is now setup, currently it has only the one temperature sensor, but you gotta start somewhere.

Thanks a lot! Your guide was prefect. Have Mijia/Aqara sensors and Sonoff S31ZB Plugs up and running in my ZB network.

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

I hope to continue and thank you again for your efforts to benefit brothers and friends

wow, not going to lie, im pretty slow at doing these type of things, this may have taken me like 2-3hours at most....but eventually i got there and now its intergrated into HA - much appreciated and awesome video and tutorial for the noobs like me ;) thank you again massive thumbs up!!

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

thank you very much for this tutorial. After I have bricked already 2 of them I succeeded with the 3rd. Now I feel I am just at the beginning of the road.

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Hard to brick them unless they were physically fried.

I just love your content ! Keep up the great work and thank you for everything !

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Just thought I'd stop by & say thank you. Got mine flashed easy enough. Xiaomi aqara devices give me a hard time pairing. Can't wait for the upcoming releases & support. Working better than the the aqara gateway. Though it has been working for years, just every now and then lost signal with 1 motion sensor... Sonoff zigbee Bridge is running perfectly.

I really need to get one of these now

Great guide. Awesome to have this control within HA now. Thanks!

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

Thanks! You made this process trivial!

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

Jus followed the guide, note to self follow all the instructions next time and don't miss anything. Got Zigbee and my first device setup, a Aquara Presence detector.

This is great mate! Thank you, you've saved me hours :D

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

I have a newer v1.1 bridge, there is more white text on the pcb. The whole procedure works though. Thanks for sharing!

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the report.

Thank you for a great video. You cover topics so well. I purchased a Sonoff Zigbee Bridge. It arrived today and following your video I was able to get it flashed and integrated into my HA along with some Aqara Motion Sensors (my goal). I wanted to take this opportunity to let you know I did have a very minor issue getting the Bridge to start taking the binary file. I had to add one more connection. Grounded the Z_RST connection on the Bridge and upload was able to start and complete. Thought you might like to modify your online instructions.

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

I have heard someone else having to do that before, the RST should happen when the upload starts though. Makes me wonder if one of yours has a possible issue, luckily it doesn't have to be flashed much. Thanks!

@Bhitiwat

3 жыл бұрын

Hi I have the same issue can you pleas Explain more since I jumped reset pin with ground but still stucked on XMD Bootloader timeout. Thanks

Followed this video yesterday, 06/01/22 and still relevant.

Unrelated device: recently attempted to flash a device via the UART connectors. Read the bin off fine, and wrote the new one. All was good. I plugged it in to the power and nothing happened. It took a solid 30 seconds of looking at the board to see a blob of solder that I'd dropped and shorted the board out. Rip to my first and only attempt at manual flashing. I'll try again soon with a bit more care and patience

Thank you very much. I learned a lot from you. I wish you success as well

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You too!

Update on my xiaomi sensors, I now have them all working. The switch & xiaomi cubes only show as a power entity, but zha_events show the switch clicks (no hold/long press) & cube actions. These are set up in either ha or node red to activate other entities etc. Shame they aren't fully integrated, but maybe in the future =). Works for all intents & purposes though, so happy.

@ein57ein

3 жыл бұрын

so glad I read the comments... Xiaomi/Aquara devices are just want I wanted to add with this hub. Any better luck?

@annespacedroid

3 жыл бұрын

@@ein57ein They work great, once paired to the hub. You may have to try several times, but they will eventually pair.

Just successfully flashed with your tutorial, thank you ! I had to enter the first "Backlog" command a second time to flash the zigbee chipset sucessfully. At this time I'm not able to add it to home assistant, but I will probably post about it on discord.

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

Able to finally get it right?

@SchmurtzAlex

4 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY Yes thank you, as I said on discord my zigbee chipset wasn't successfuly flashed : the wifi connection must be good otherwise it restart before doing "XMS : Init packet send"

@SchmurtzAlex

4 жыл бұрын

After it's not easy to pair devices thru the home assistant ZHA integration. I have better results with the MQTT firmware : in this mode the pairing is less problematic but I found that this mqtt firmware seems at the very early stage : for example it doesn't seems to make difference between simple clic and double clic with the aqara button. For sure it probably going to be better in the futur ;)

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

Limitation of the HA Zigbee Integration?

@SchmurtzAlex

4 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY May be that the TCP communication is not enough reactive for EZSP protocol ? I don't know... May be I should try with the sonoff ZB next my wifi box.

Thank you so much from India.

Very clear, thanks

Nicely explained 🙂

Good night, first of all I wanted to congratulate the video, I already enjoyed it and subscribed to the channel. I'm having some instability with the ZigBee network using the Sonoff bridge as per the tutorial. I have about 15 Zemismart switches here, the first 5 were very easy to pair, then a great instability started and the devices did not synchronize with the bridge

@jorgespneto

3 жыл бұрын

Here is the Log Device 0x5479 (XX) joined the network Skip initialization for existing device 00:15:8d:00:04:62:6a:50 Device 0x5479 (XX) joined the network Skip initialization for existing device 00:15:8d:00:04:62:6a:50 [0x5479] Cancelling old group rescan [0x5479:zdo] ZDO request ZDOCmd.Device_annce: [0x5479, XX, 142] [0x5479:11:0x0004] ZCL deserialize: [0x5479:11:0x0004] ZCL request 0x0002: [16, []] [0x5479:11:0x0004] No handler for cluster command 2 [0x5479:11:0x0004] ZCL deserialize: [0x5479:zdo] ZDO request ZDOCmd.Node_Desc_req: [0x0000] [0x5479:zdo] Unsupported ZDO request:ZDOCmd.Node_Desc_req

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

I would try posting ZHA issues to the developers of the integration on the HA forums.

finally, I configured the Zigbee ... your method is 100% working ... the only problem I faced -esp8266 not connecting to pc ... I tried several method and finally made it ... thank you, Bro

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Great 👍 thanks for the feedback!

@sylwestersuchecki9034

3 жыл бұрын

that's my current problem... how did you solve it? thank for your time

@jagadeeshv2763

3 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY BRO one help I'm facing this WARNING message in log every time ````` Logger: bellows.zigbee.application Source: /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/bellows/zigbee/application.py:644 First occurred: February 19, 2021, 10:32:20 PM (30 occurrences) Last logged: 9:08:35 PM Watchdog heartbeat timeout: ``````

@pepegarcia4090

2 жыл бұрын

@@sylwestersuchecki9034 could you solved it? I'm in the same point, I tryed using an arduino UNO as TTL converter and a FT232, and I'm obtaining the same error msg....

Great video. Very straight forward, just followed the steps and got it working in one go.

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Woohoo! Great job and thanks!

Also just got the Aqara Temp sensor and Door Sensor working

Hi, thanks again for this very useful video. I have one question, after flashing the tasmota firmware you saying there are 2 different ncp*.* files. In your video you choosed one. Is it possible to the other ncp file if we want to test the second one ? or it's to late and we have to do it on another Zigbee bridge ? thanks in advance.

On order, thanks

These instructions worked perfectly - thanks! Was wondering now it's setup - is there any way to configure the device to have one of the LED lights lit when it's powered on and active, just as an easy way to tell the device is alive at a glance?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

You could try adjusting the LED settings in the template but I haven't done it myself.

Thanks for the guide! I can confirm that flashing the Sonoff with a CP2102 based flasher just doesn't work, while a CH340G based flasher did the trick the first time around.

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Haven't heard that one yet and so weird to see as the cp2102 was king on a dimmer flash. Goes to show you that having a couple tools in the toolbox helps figure things out.

@kennethmadsen6474

3 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY Exactly! I saw that video and tried flashing it with external power, but still no luck.

@FRANKLEO123

3 жыл бұрын

i cant get my ch340g to flash. any tips?

Thank you!

Just got working a SNZB-04 (window/door sensor) and SNZB-02 (temp/humidity) from Sonoff :)

@mariuso9033

3 жыл бұрын

It didn't work for me. SNZB-02 (temp/humidity) shows state "unknown" in HA and SNZB-04 (window/door sensor) is not discovered. I use Tasmota 9.1.0.2 and ncp-uart-sw_6.7.6_115200.ota

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

I have them and they work fine. Try to pair them up again.

@Technology4Life

3 жыл бұрын

Might be the battery apparently. They can be a little ropey

SSSSSSSSUPER !!!!! TKS FORM ITALY !!!!!!!!

Hi thanks I followed this video and install/configure the Za bridge, have few mini behind switches and door sensor, Problem my sonoff thumb switch I can only see the battery not the switch so there is no way i know if it's working. I tried to automate it in Home Assistant but cannot find the device in the trigger section....any suggestion. Also does MQTT{ which is not configure in Tasmota}, cause any conflict with ZAH integration. Thank you.

Great video Travis - clean, clear and to the point. Just one question, for those who want to use "routers" (as maybe we have door sensors on shed doors at the far end of the garden for example) is it possible to flash a Sonoff Zigbee Bridge and use it in "Router" mode instead of "Coordinator"??

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I haven't seen any firmware for that. Just the two versions for either mode.

@JimVanderveen

3 жыл бұрын

As I understand it, a “coordinator” node handles the wifi-Zigbee mesh connection. The Zigbee “routers” are like mesh repeaters/extenders. If you only have Zigbee routers, they won’t have a connection to the internet.

I have many com ports memorized for different device interfaces.

Oh the zigbee! Oh the zigbee!

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

Let's not and say we did.

Will the sonoff zigbee work right out of the box with Yale locks?

Nice walktrough! I wonder how this compares to the raspbee/conbee stick. I have one of those, and it has lost all it's bindings two times already so I am very open to a better alternative. Would this be more solid?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

I can't compare myself as I've only run another Zigbee stick in the HA box itself. I haven't used those models. As I said in the video I do like this one since I can put it in the middle of the house as all my sensors are battery powered sleeping ones.

Thanks sir good one as always

@digiblurDIY

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

I put my ground on the pin that goes through&through the board ....

thanks for a great video. Can we have multiple zigbee bridges talking to each other and only one communicates with HA or they all need to talk back to HA? Just wondering as im in the process of buying some sonoff and i have a double story house and not sure if one will be able to cover the whole house. Thanks again.....i followed your video the other day to do my first tuya convert flash....and im in love with the process :D

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

You'd have to have them Tasmota Zigbee mode then handle things via MQTT. It might be better to just snag some mains powered devices and let it build the mesh though.

Hey do you know are there any strobe sirens that can work with the Sonos zigbee Bridge

Thanks, Travis for another great video. I just bought the Sonoff Zigbee bridge and would like to know if things have changed in HA so that you don't need to flash the bridge or is everyone still flashing the bridge. I did flash my 433 mhz bridge so its not a problem to flash this one. Just checking, thanks

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know of any API on it. I would still flash a Sonoff Basic though too.

@vaughanza

3 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY Thanks Travis

Great video, Travis! Thank you. To clarify, will there still be a Zigbee mesh that's created when using this bridge?

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. That's the stuff I went over at the end showing the mains powered plug was showing up as a router/repeater.

@TheBurgundyBear

4 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY Awesome! I thought I caught it correctly but wanted to be sure. Thanks, brother.

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

No problem! I was just pointing out that I didn't have to worry about making the mesh with this guy as I run mostly battery powered Zigbee stuff.

Tks Travis for sharing your work. I have been learning a lot with your videos. If I keep in tasmota zigbee mode, is it possible to enable mqtt? Once enabled, is it possible to configure each device individually? I would like to send sensors data to influxdb, for example. Cheers.

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, enabled MQTT and you'll be able to control it via MQTT and the Tasmota console using the Zigbee commands of Tasmota. tasmota.github.io/docs/Zigbee/

@inaciosung

3 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY Got it. Tks man!

thank you

is this still relevant n best route. found a 3.0 unit on bang good , same as this 1 ? it lists works with Alexa

I have the Sonoff ZF Bridge and got it working with ZHA and the lumi sensors., but i'm unable to pair IKEA Trådfri module, do you know if there is a limitation there ?

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

I saw some issues posted with Ikea stuff on the Tasmota side they did fixes for. ZHA might need to implement the same ones.

Hi, it is a perfect solution to work with that in Home assistant. Just one question: due to concrete walls and distance it is difficult to connect all sensors to one bridge. How can I connect a second Sonoff/Tasmota ZBBridge to Home assistant?

@digiblurDIY

2 жыл бұрын

You would need to use like Zigbee2mqtt to do a second network or instance. Much easier to just get a couple mains powered devices to route traffic.

Hey! Very nice and complete video! Thanks for that. Question, is it possible to connect RF 433Mhz devices to the Sonoff Zigbee Bridge once it has been flashed with Tasmota ? Perhaps the hardware has this feature and is disabled :\

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

There's no 433mhz radio in there.

I had to connect the Z_RST pin to GND in order to flash with Tasmota. I have the Zigbee Brige V1.1 Now it works fine

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

The process should do that automatically but if there is some hardware issue I could see that having to be manually done.

@PunaJussi

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. Thanks for the info!

@Bhitiwat

3 жыл бұрын

Did you connect Z_RST & GND for whole process ?

Good helper

I can't activate my switch through the console or browser ... it returns me with the invalid cluster message ... how do i know the cluster id to send via zbsend? ... Greetings from Brazil

Do the temperature sensors also show battery level? In the video they show as -%

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

They do, after a while they report their level. Which does makes sense for the device to only check the battery level a couple times a day.

How is the responsiveness of this after it’s flashed. Noticed Phillips hue hub is between 1_4 seconds to trigger. Doconz is usually always less than a seconds.

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

I know it isn't 4 seconds for sure. The door trigger sensor seems to be fairly quick, I wouldn't have an issue using it as a light automation where split seconds count.

Great video as always. I plan to replase my zigbee2MQTT dongle with this as I use dockor on me Synology NAS. Synology apparently will no longer support dongles with the release of DSM 7.0. There was a way to setup a net network key with zigbee2MQTT for increase zigbee security. Does the Sonoff zigbee bridge also have this feature? Thanks

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

The network key is in z2m config. It is required no matter what adapter you use. You should always auto generate a random one or change the default.

@MikeySoft

3 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY Thanks, I just ordered an sonoff zigbee bridge :)

Hi,, would you know if its possible to emualate a hue bridge ? i have an ambilight tv, and and have loads of esp8266 running wled.. would be good to emulate a hue bridge, i can connect my tv then to my wleds ?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure on that one, I don't have any Hue stuff.

Great Video. I have followed the tutorial. I can see the bridge connected to my wifi network but can not access the bridge via the ip address. It keeps timing out. Any advice would be great. Cheers

@digiblurDIY

2 жыл бұрын

Reflash it.

Are there any reasons to upgrade from a CC2531 stick running zigbee2mqtt to this? My range is fine, just wondering.

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

I haven't used it with Zigbee2mqtt yet to compare. I did hear they are working on it.

Please your help, when flashing procees ends I had the a error message (MD5 of 0xFF is 4ec2e29ca3952043a72fadadd997769a). The Zigbee bridge is a V1.1 dated 20.02.28, it's powered by a 3,3V power supply, the ground is common with the USB to Serial converter, and ETx to RXD and ERX to TXD are proppertly connected. Flashing was used Tasmotizer, and also NodeMCU-PyFlasher, both whit the same results. Thanks for your help.

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Try holding z-rst to ground the entire time.

Thanks! I finally get my devices connected, btw my SONOFF SNZB-01 - Zigbee Wireless Switch only get battery status entitled, no click button status entitle, any idea?

@gregologynet

3 жыл бұрын

I am having the same issue. The OP responded to a similar question -> "Until they get that fixed in ZHA you can roll with the MQTT method." Now I'm trying to work out how to do the MQTT method 🤣

@jefflambert4243

3 жыл бұрын

@@gregologynet I see talk of this but nothing complete. If you have it figured out can you post what you did?

@paulzurlinden

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. SNZB-01 connects without issue, only reports battery status.

for aqara 2-gang switches will it see them as 2 switches or just one ?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

I don't have any to try but if they follow the zigbee standards it should expose all of its actions.

Does anyone know what Zigbee channel the Bridge uses or if it can be changed? I already have a Hubitat running successfully on Channel 20 and bought this bridge to play with but don't want it to interfere with my Hubitat setup.

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

Not really sure as I haven't dug into how the Zigbee intergration in Home Assistant works for controlling the advanced side of the network.

any recommendations for zigbee flood sensors?

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

Aqara leak shows supported amzn.to/3klgW2l github.com/zigpy/zha-device-handlers Of course I have used some not on this list.

Looking to do this to a Sonoff bridge I just picked up but want a way to go back to factory firmware if need be. I can backup the factory load using Tasmotizer, or others, but what about the ncp firmware change? Is there any way to back that up or reload the Sonoff supplied ncp firmware? Haven’t been able to find that anywhere.

@digiblurDIY

2 жыл бұрын

Not that I am aware of.

I'm assuming this process can be followed for the Sonoff Smart Zigbee Bridge Pro as well, right? The idea of limiting to 32 devices is getting to me a little, even though I don't have a single Zigbee device yet, with my plan for smart light switches which may or may not end up being Zigbee, and then motion and temperature and humidity in all or many rooms, I am strongly considering getting the Pro instead.

@digiblurDIY

10 ай бұрын

I'd recommend a USB or Ethernet stick instead of these now, we didn't have those readily available then but now they are so easy to get, much easier to deal with the reliability is great. I'd stick to the CC2652 chipsets for now.

Probably someone already asked, but can you pair only Sonoff Zigbee devices or you can basically pair IKEA, Xiaomi, X provider devices as well?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

I paired a bunch of random stuff with it. Tuya zigbee, Sengled bulb, Aqara, gledopto or something.

Can I use this guide to flash my pir's smartlife sensors ? Thank you

@digiblurDIY

Жыл бұрын

I haven't flashed any zigbee battery sensors before myself.

Awesome video as always! How much better are the signal comparing to nortek?

@MeauxTarabein

4 жыл бұрын

I have also to disable zwave due to interference 😞and using smartthing for the zwave stuff

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

Nortek had the same issues in my place, couldn't catch a sensor across the house. Had it for a while and one of the reasons I never dove into Zigbee.

@digiblurDIY

4 жыл бұрын

I had Zwave through a few hubs including Smartthings and I thought HomeAssistant would fix my issues but alas, the same issues persisted and I found out there was a bunch of interference.

@MeauxTarabein

4 жыл бұрын

Got it! Thank u!So you think worth upgrading from nortek to Sonoff( you got much better coverage) or not much

im on Hassio v 118. i accidentally use the OTA of ncp-uart-sw_6.5.5_115200. when i try to upgrade again using 6.7.6, the hub gave error: Upload Failed Magic byte is not 0xE9

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

You would need to flip into Tasmota Zigbee mode for it to accept an OTA file.

Dupont jumpers dont fit in the holes. Are breadboard jumpers skinnier?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that are smaller. If you don't have any you could use some wire out of a cat5 cable too.

Do you know how range of this bridge compares to USB pens with antenna (such like ZZH and other CC2652R based)?

@digiblurDIY

2 жыл бұрын

If they had PCB antennas they would be very similar. There is no comparison though with the CC2652 series in basis of performance and compatibility though. Awesome chipset especially when used with Zigbee2MQTT

Having trouble with the SNZB-02 temp/humidity sensor. no readings

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

are they pairing up? Try to pair them again as I have the sensor and it shows readings in HA.

I am trying to add an Ikea remote to my Sonoff Tasmota bridge, but I can only get the batteri power feature in, not any bottoms. How to do?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Take a look at the zha_events listener and see if you can see the actions there.

Will zigbee devices keep on working if, for whatever reason, HASS is down with this setup? So if the Raspberry with hass shuts down... will I be able to switch the lights still?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

The light switches will still work but of course not remotely unless you had like a button bound to a light then that button would still work.

I have quetions, in order to increate the range of zigbee signals due to my house have 4 floors, is it possible to have this Sonoff Zigbee bridge saveral units? Thank you very much.

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

This will explain the use of zigbee routers a little better kzread.info/dash/bejne/hopps9uso8SddcY.html

Has someone test an aqara vibration sensor correctly? And an aqara qube? One more, someone without flashing nothing can use the zbbridge with alexa? Thanks

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

I do believe I recall someone saying they got the cube working.

@digiblurDIY is it possible to use the sonoff bridge with the usb cable instead of the Wi-Fi?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

No. That isn't the design of it. They have many USB sticks already to cover this.

Can you have 2 of these on your network? Or will the 2 zigbee networks interfere with each other?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Put them on different channels. You would need to use a different integration though for the second.

Thanks for your video I followed the steps and everything went fine, all devices worked great for several days. However I had an separate issue with my Wi-Fi and decided to change the 2.4ghz channel from 8 to 1 and for some reason all my Wi-Fi devices dropped off and had to be re-connected, even though the SSID & password hadn't changed. Now i can't connect to my ZB Bridge until i reconfigure its Wi-Fi, so my question is how can i reset it back to AP mode? on my RF bridge it was 6 power cycles within 10 seconds to reset, is there anything similar on the ZB Bridge or do I need to re-flash to get back to Wi-Fi setup? I did swap my Wi-Fi back to its original channel but no joy, resetting the ZB Bridge is the only outstanding problem, I would appreciate any assistance.

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

The power recovery process is still the same. I would suggest in the future to put both wifi configs in the tasmota device as well as turning on wificonfig 2 when switching networks.

@keith-ds8vs

3 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY wow what a rapid response, thank you. I'm new to Tasmota but I eventually found 6 rapid presses of the reset button put it into AP mode and I was able to re-connect to my Wi-Fi. As for the SSID issue, previously I found that some devices required a space at the end of my SSID to connect, my PIi's for example, others didn't. I don't know if this a Linux thing or my xiaomi router, however by changing the 2.4ghz channel seems to have removed the need for the space so those devices failed to re-connect. very strange but i now know the issue and all is good. Many thanks for your support and very informative videos.

Hi Travis and people. I just tried tu configure my Sf Zigbee Bridge, and updated to Tasmota 10.0.0, which upgraded just fine, but now I cannot flash the NCP file. I get an Upload FAILED message. Do you think I have to go back to an older Tasmota version? Thanks for the good work

@digiblurDIY

2 жыл бұрын

You do need to be in Zigbee Bridge mode to accept any new NCP files otherwise it doesn't know what to do with them. Change the module on the Configure Module selection to Zigbee Bridge

Is there an overview like zigbee2mqtt what is working and what not

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

It is driven by this integration. www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/

Has anyone tried to pair these sensors directly to SmartThings?

Great video! But I have a question..after flashing the device will it still be visible in the sonoff app? thanks!

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

No. You are taking the control over the device you bought and bringing it local.

@rodrigojds

3 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY thank you for your answer :-) Is there any way of flashing the devices to back to their original software if needed?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

If you have serial TTL access to the device you would back up the firmware before overwriting it.

when uploading the ota file. It says upload fails with the message Magic byte is not 0xE9. What to do to rectify this? Even after entering the backlog command the module remains the same and teh device does not restart?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

You have the wrong bin file uploaded then if module 75 will not set.

I have only used Z2MQTT before so I dont know any better. But why would you want to use this Wifi zigbee bridge over let's say an Zigbee CC2531 stick? Also, what's the advantage of flashing this ZB bridge with Tasmota?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

I talked about that part of why I prefer it. USB sticks are stuck on my server, signal is poor and in a bad location, combined with having to deal with serial port passthrough. For my setup, it fixed all that. I could put the bridge anywhere and it's all over IP. The advantage of flashing it, is taking it out of the cloud.

Hey Digi, Got the whole system up and running for some time now and It’s working great. Only the Aqara lumi motion sensor disconnects after about 1 hour and needs new pairing after that. You have any idea for a fix?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

That shouldn't be happening. It hasn't happened to me yet. Any signal issue? Do you have maybe router/repeater device you could put in the middle?

@renomulders243

3 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY only temperature and some switches. Going to pair it again and place it next to bridge for a day to test it out.

Will all of this work with homekit bridge?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure myself as I am using Home Assistant with it. If it supports the same ZHA or MQTT then I don't see why not.

Is this still a good way to go or is zigbee2mqtt better? I couldn't find one of those TI dev boards for zigbee that you had on that stream the other day.

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

I would probably opt for one based on the cc2652 chipsets as this is alpha testing at this time in z2m. Did you check Slaesh or Electrolama zzh?

@any_think

3 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY I actually ended up finding the CC1352, I don't know how I missed it before. Though I accidentally ordered the one with the 433 antenna not the 800-900 one.. Do you know what the difference is between the CC13x2 and CC26x2 boards?

Wondering where you got the junper lead from. Mine is too big and won’t fit. Thank you for your video.

@digiblurDIY

2 жыл бұрын

Those are breadboard jumpers.

@manjil1234

2 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY My breadboard jumpers were little thick. So ended up using ethernet wires instead. Thank you for your detailed guide.

Thank you...I was able to get this up and running with zigbee2MQTT. Should the LEDS on the bridge still work? I have nothing, both LEDS are out.

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't tried myself but you should be able to control them as they probably just attached to GPIO pins.

@billreichard357

3 жыл бұрын

@@digiblurDIY I see in the template that they are setup. I guess I really should be asking if they are normally both out?

@digiblurDIY

3 жыл бұрын

I will have to check to see. Mine is in a closet so I rarely put eyes on it.