Flashing CC2531 without CC Debugger
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To flash CC2531 without the CC Debugger all you need is a couple of wires, 3 min of your time and a Rasberry PI. A lot of you send me messages about issues with 1.0 version of the board. If you are stuck, you can buy pre-flashed CC2531 v2.4 from ITEAD for $3.99 shrsl.com/25xc4
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Very clear instructions and pretty easy to follow!! Flashed my CC2531 in no time because of this video, Thank you!
3njoy ZigBee
Finally. I've had one of these for 4 months and just put it off til later. Thanks for the video.
You are not alone! Haha
Excellent instructions. Thank you! FYI instead of soldering wires directly on to the pins I just used pliers to crimp a couple of the push on connectors so they would fit on the narrow gauge pins.
Have flashed my CC2531 using an Orange Pi with the help of your guide, thank you!
Great Video thank you. I used some clamping connectors so I did not have to solder. Your instructions were great and allowed me in under 20 mins to get the flash complete.
Glad it helped
With patience and careful step by step procedure, this worked like a charm! Thank you!
Awesome enjoy! I have lots of tutorials how to create different behaviours in NodeRed
Thanks from Portugal, I just spent 30 minutes flashing with your method, welding included.
Awesome enjoy. I have all IKEA devices mapped as well so I recommend you check it out
You just pushen me over the edge of buying a few of these. Thanks :)
In a household you probably need just one and then used couple of light bulbs to propagate the signal
NotEnoughTECH cheap enough to just buy a few to mess around with.
Sure thing but you need a Raspberry or something to run it on. Most of the powered ZigBee devices (not batter powered) act as routers in a mesh network. But if you want to have more than one network... Could be right thing to do
damned, i allready buy the cc programmer and the cabel and the stick.... and now you show the shortcut. Good Job, Mat!
I was soo close of getting one too ! I thought the method deserved some attention!
Did this last night and it worked like a charm!
Awesome
Wow - thanks for this. Super helpful, flashed first time without any issues.
There are no nimble sloths.... And you are welcome 🤭
Worked! Thank you very much. Your contant is always awesome!
awesome - enjoy your Zigbee fun - I have lots of zigbee tutorials!
This is the video I've been hunting for!
Woo-hoo! Pre-flashed my backside. One step through this, and after a little network whoopsie (I used the Pi that used to be my HASSIO server, of which I cloned the mac address in a virtual machine) it works like a charm. Many thanks again.
I'm happy for you. Enjoy the ZigBee and pick yourself nice sensors as a reward :)
(Bonus points for usig my links haha)
Open the messenger at the door, solder the chip, update wiring-pi to support rasperry pi 4, flashing with your great tutorial on the backgroun, and enjoy. About 25 minutes (10 goes into solving the rpi4 unsupported wiring pi). Thank you very much!
Hi, how did you make it work for rasberry pi 4? I keep getting id=ffff..
Thank you for the video/guide! Was able to flash the FW successfully and saved 50 bucks on a bulky ikea hub :)
You made a better choice too!
Thank you so much, you saved a turkish survivor from waiting parcels for 30 days from China.
If you are a lazy potato like me about soldering, I have a worked idea for you!
First cut the male part of the socket wire directly. Now we have to push the wire directly to the related pins, the pins are so thin that they would make their own way to fit inside. But be careful while doing this, gently push and rotate left and right to help the pin.
That's a good tip.
@@notenoughtech thanks 😊
perfect... Works totally well and was simple. Thank you very much.
Have fun with ZigBee
Applauses to you Sr.
Very useful. Many thanks.
You are welcome
Awesome video man! I am excited to see your future videos. I got a few Aqara and Xiaomi wireless switches and Door Sensors working, but I could not set a initial status to them. For instance, the initial state for the Door Sensor is "closed", even if its open. Once you really close it and open again, it works and I got no way to get that to read the initial value.
Also, the switches have "Unknown" for Battery, Click and Link values until you click the switch for the first time.
I might be wrong on this, but all but temp sensors are going into a sleep mode. So unless there is a trigger wake up (low battery, button press, contact triggered) the unit sleeps to conserve the battery. There is no way of reading the information in this state. I assume this information based on the IKEA remote which after a long time without using the button has to be pressed twice - once to wake up, once to toggle stuff.
I will check the Aqara stuff soon - I'm actually going to write a piece about keeping the battery getting low battery notifications for all the devices.
love it love it LOVE IT!!!!
Worked fine although it took me a couple of hours to complete, soldering was a bit tedious, but all done now. Thanks.
Haha just bent the pins. Also apparently Dupont cables work if you remove plastic sleeves
@@notenoughtech I did bend the pins, yes. Just a bit difficult to solder so close to each other, but got there in the end. Cheers. Saved me from buying the kit.
Enjoy you will love mixing and matching various ecosystems
Thanks! Great video!
I think you have answers to almost all of my home automation challenges. I've hit a limit on the CC2531 stick I got from ebay as it was loaded with standard firmware which you shouldnt use with more than 30 devices. I'm now up to 58 devices in my house and it kept crashing almost daily, locking up where I had to keep reconnecting it in the usb port. Loaded up Source_Routing firmware on it using your method and it worked perfectly. Thanks again for this video, I dreaded having to wait for a programmer at least 2 months as there are none locally available where I am.
I just got another coordinator so I'm sure I'll be posting soon.
@@notenoughtech So I've just learned the hard way that Xiaomi Aqara Opple switches dont like source routing and only prefer to be connected directly to the coordinator. I have to build a diy cc2530 router I think to fix my network size problems and revert back to default firmware on the cc2531. I'm up to 80+ devices now.
You are growing these very quickly. Or do they multiplying on their own now 😂🤣
@@notenoughtech HAHA!! I just started pairing 20 Zemismart dimmers and 4 Xiaomi Smoke detectors that arrived in the mail today. Also testing the Opple switches that I got earlier, while waiting for the big order of 16 to arrive. So far have paired just over 20 Sonoff ZBR3's, 8 Samsung temp and door sensors, a number of Ikea bulbs in lamps. All running off NodeRed, but using the Homeassistant nodes to control them. I found those nodes easier to configure for dimming on the Zemismarts with simple 5% loops that are stopped by the "released" payload from the Xiaomi switches.
Impressive!
I like Xiaomi buttons too. You can also paint the logo to make them look different.
Excellent video, I like it. Thank you.
My pleasure
Thanks a lot for this. Soldering the wires now ;)
Hope you have V2.4
@@notenoughtech How would I find out?
on the PCB near the USB part
Thanks! You helped me a lot!
No problem!
Thank! Work perfectly!
Great!
Nice video, I think I'm gona order me one.👍
Worth it if you want to mix and match ZigBee gadgets from different brands
genius !!, thank you
Thanks very very nice.
Thank you.
Welcome!
I didn't solder the wires. I just bent the wires as him, I removed the plastic cap of the dupont wires and connected them carefully ;)
I need to try this next time :D
Awesome tip - thanks! Had to put a bit of tape over the metal caps to separate them cleanly from each other. But much easier than soldering.
Thank you for the video, simple and clear instructions. Have a questions, is it for C2531 F128 or F256 ?
Considering the fact I was not aware of revisions... Should work for both? 😄
Itead now sells a preloaded Zigbee CC2531 USB Dongle
I know it's the 2.4v too! 🤗
@@notenoughtech if it is a preloaded zigbee cc2531 usb dongle, do you no longer have to do the flashing process you outlined in the video? Is it plug and play?
(www.itead.cc/cc2531-usb-dongle.html) Is there a ready-to-run version somewhere? My hands aren't steady enough to do the soldering.
great video... really good.... except.. can you cover how you transfer the file with notepad++
I'm using an FTP extension as you can use SFTP do connect to your RPI via SSH and upload files
I'm kinda new to this whole zigbee thing :P
I was wondering of the dongle and zigbee2mqtt works with tuya smart battery powered temperature/humidity sensors (they are zigbee, but they are not listed as supported)?
I know you have a vidoe showing how to add new devices, but i'm curios if there could be any problems with the tuya things...
I already covered this here
notenoughtech.com/home-automation/adding-new-devices-to-zigbee2mqtt/
You should be able to use tuya devices just fine
@@notenoughtech awesome thx :)
Hi Matt, I appreciated your video!! are there any extra steps if i'm using a raspberry pi 4? Thanks!
You should be fine with rpi4. Check the chip on PCB. Some of them seem to be shodddy. Do you have v2.4 or v1.0
@@notenoughtech i believe is version 1.0.. But how can I make sure of that? Is there any difference in the flashing process depending of the version?
I hardly had complains from anyone on v2.4 - check this one out:
github.com/jmichault/flash_cc2531/issues/10#issuecomment-544139748
You say “any” raspberry pi - but it’s probably worth mentioning that it won’t actually work with anything earlier than a 3
After some people reported issues with flashing on Zero series you are probably right there.
Hi Mat, I am so happy seeing yr tutorial and excited buying a few cc2531. Sadly i try to flash with raspberry pi 3b+ by following yr given tutorial but all failed with ID=ffff even I checked the wiring several times. I even changed another new raspberry pi 3b+ and another new cc2531. GPIO -v ok. Any idea what is happening? 😭
ffff means that device is not detected. It's either driver not correctly installed or you made a mistake with wiring. Double check the pins. These are so close together it's easy to make an accidental short.
@@notenoughtech @NotEnoughTECH Hello Mat, sorry for the disturb, know that u r busy. Do u mean we need to install driver 1st? What do u mean by "driver not correctly install means" ? I need to install some driver onto raspberry pi, before trying to flash cc2531? Or do I miss anything in Raspberry pi raspi-config, need to be enabled? I am pretty sure wiring no short circuited because I even tested with multimeter to ensure no short circuited and wiring continuity too. Double triple check pin to follow exactly the pin configuration table given. But I did tried to unplug the pin 38 or DD, it shows ID=0000 and once plug it back it shows ID=ffff again. Try to type GPIO readall and it shows pin 35 36 38 = 1 respectively. Tq tq tq for yr help and very much appreciated.
@@soovui I have the same issue, I have re checked all connections but I still get ffff. did you get this fixed ?
My mistake, its now working.
I've got the same problem. I found this issue from the github page: github.com/jmichault/flash_cc2531/issues/9. Sadly no straight solution for this. Have you guys found out how to get around this problem?
very good video. you saved me about 10 $. Thx. I think ther's a mistake at 2:17 at gnd and gdn(?) means this ground?
You have better eyesight than me! Clearly that $10 you saved I will spend on optician :)
Hello, is it possible to flash with you method if I already have hassio installed in raspberry pi? Or I need to delete hassio first of all to be able to proceed with your steps?
As long as you have the root access via SSH you can
@@notenoughtech what do you mean by that? Sorry I am new with all this stuff
If you are the one that installed it then yes
@@notenoughtech yes I installed hassio on raspberry pi. How to access that console log then? :D
not the console log but just SSH session - and then follow the instructions as per tutorial.
Nice vid bud! How can I flash the CC2530 using RaspberryPi?
(I believe - do not quote me on this - it should be pretty much the same way if there are flash libraries for CC2530
Can I flash the non-usb CC2530 board as well like this?
Ha it does, see comment from Juan Perez below.
yes you can - just map the pins correctly
@NotEnoughTECH I have this problem, I have already installed the HASSIO, when I go to the terminal through SSH Web Terminal, I can only see the" -->~ " prompt. I know it is not right, because your terminal shows a "$" prompt. I cannot execute any gpio -V or any command like "sudo get-apt...".. Please advice how to get to "$" prompt after I have installed the HASSIO. Please give some guidance as we are all beginners in Home-assistant.
Are you logged in as a root user? Seems like you have no permissions to do whats's needed
@@notenoughtech Hi, I setup HA as what is instructed on the web as i am quite new to it. i setup duckdns, ssh web terminal and i try to use the terminal...may i know how to log in as root user or root permission? i am the rightful owner of the HA & Pi?
frankly speaking I never played with HA - but you can check if you are root user :
unix.stackexchange.com/questions/305509/how-do-i-check-if-i-have-root-access
like this.
For the lazy you can pick them up pre-flashed from cc2531.com ;-)
Where are they shipped from?
@@evolutionretro797 UK, so 1-2 days if you're in the UK, 3-5 if you're in the EU and 5-7 business days if you're international / U.S. :-)
I'm stucked haha. When I run the ./cc_chipid or any other command I get: No such file or directory. The file exists on the directory but I can´t get it to run. HELP :/
Permission? Try with sudo?
how come wen i try doto the ./cc_chipid it says no such directory or file, whilest wen i do ls i can clearly see them ?
Are you in that directory?
@@notenoughtech yes, since i can use tab completion even
@@LTGnetwork the other cause of this could be permissions. Check the file and folder permission. Try setting it all to 775 for testing
@@notenoughtech nope still not chanced all premisions to 775 en the whole folder and tryed it as root
@@notenoughtech could this because of a pi 4 ?
Nice video. Is it possible with a rpi2 because this one have only 26 gpio pins. and de pins 38 etc are missing.
Yes as long as you use the correct pins.
thx i will give it a try and finding the correct pins
@@jeroenhofman447 did you found out the pins?
@@maersk1969 no not on the pi2 i have used an new sd card on rpi3 and the it works
@@jeroenhofman447 my problem is that I only have a pi 1 with 26 pins and I do not know what kind of pins I need to flash the cc2531.
Hi! Thanks for the video, really helpful! Unfortunately, I am stuck on error "ffff"... I have verified several times the cables (I have resoldered them twice), but still no luck. I see a green light from the onboard LED, so I assume that the device is not completely faulty... Is there anything I can do to debug this? Thanks!
What raspberry are you using ?
@@notenoughtech Raspberry Pi 2
@@fascineroso also is the xx2531 v2,.4? See PCB... I had some readers reporting that it wouldnt work on zero while worked ok on RPI3...
check this out too:
github.com/jmichault/flash_cc2531/issues/10#issuecomment-544139748
@@notenoughtech I can see CC25XX USB Dongle Rev 1.0
@@notenoughtech You think I need another SW to flash this? I bought the following device: uk-m.banggood.com/Wireless-Zigbee-CC2531-Sniffer-Bare-Board-Packet-Protocol-Analyzer-Module-USB-Interface-Dongle-p-1227206.html?&cart_warehouse=CN
For anyone having issues and getting ID different than b524 and being unable to write, use '-m 90' (or increase the number if still not working) after every cc_ command. This functionality was added recently and it fixed my issues. @NotEnoughTech maybe pin this for all to see? More info here: github.com/jmichault/flash_cc2531/issues/9#issuecomment-557893592
Thanks for the tip
Do you still need the jumper cables after the flashing?
No, this is one time process. Once flashed, updates are done over USB and you can get rid of the cables
@@notenoughtech Hey, the link to the firmware on your site is not valid any more. What should we download? :)
Nope
@@DanielBrzanov I have updated the link to the folder rather than a file:
github.com/Koenkk/Z-Stack-firmware/tree/master/coordinator
Well that's new to me if you could update it via usb. Never found a post to do that without reflashing the device.
Great video! Thank You. But I've got a problem connecting cc2531 GND (pin 1) to Raspberry Pi 4b GND (pin 39). It causes power off of the stick despite other pins are connected or not. When I tried to connect GND to other GND pins (6, 9, 14 etc) on the Raspberry I got id="0000". How do you think what is the problem?
If it causes the power off a short would be the most obvious cause. Do you have the pin mapped to anything else via other scripts?
@@notenoughtech No. Only zigbee stick cc2531
I have no idea? I assume the stick wasn't pre flashed? Perhaps faulty? Itead sells them flashed with coordinator
@@notenoughtech Right. The stick wasn't pre flashed. Actually it's not ITEAD manufactured stick.
They don't make these but they flash it and verify it and sell for $4 so worth having the piece of mind ;)
Hi, nice video!
I'm a total noob in the matter and I don't have soldering tools. I was wondering is it possible to use female to female wires instead of soldering thing?
(I would have tested myself but I don't have CC2531 or wire ahah)
I have been told that if you remove the plastic shroud these can fit nicely. Inspect the cable though to make sure these won't cause shorts
@@notenoughtech I did this just an hour ago and it worked great. I bent the pins extra far apart and didn't stick the wires on all the way, in order to prevent them making contact with other pins, as you say. But as long as the wires were making contact with the right pins, it worked fine! No soldering required.
Enjoy freedom
@@notenoughtech I'm in the process of flashing but got ID successfully. I stripped plastic and use electrical isolating tape to isolate wires. My wires sit a little loose on pins, but it works.
If I do this , will I then be able to add it directly as a "Zigbee home automation" device ?
(In Home assistant of course)
@@vestercasper I'm not 100% how it looks in HA end but it's ZigBee2MQTT based so you will be able to interact with it via MQTT
@@notenoughtech Thanks for the quick answer - I really hoped that the firmware would turn it into a ZHA device.. But I guess I have to buy another CC2531 with the sonoff firmware if I want a ZHA device . After that I probably have to move the antenna from my current CC2531 to the sonoff CC2531 (it does not come with an antenna)
You can flash any firmware on it. I know people are using it with HA I just don't know the details of how as I use nodered only
I can confirm its working perfectly as a ZHA device in HA 🙏👍
How can I know If my usb sticker was flash or not?
Unless your seller advertised it as flashed it's probably not
@@notenoughtech :(
You forgot to mention what the Raspberry Pi is running. My guess is that it is a normal verison of Raspian. Correct?
Yes
Note:
Upload new firmware using ./cc_write /path/to/CC2531ZNP-Prod.hex this will take about 3 min on RB4
but in zero it will took 30 minutes!
P. S. If you start with sudo ./cc_write then it will do it faster. Without sudo it's not working at my home...
Thanks for that. Zero is significantly slower. I think the instructions also mention similar times for Arduino method
@@notenoughtech sudo before commands was needed in my case. Without sudo, everything was slow and not working but with sudo before commands I did it just like you did. So zero is fast but sudo is needed.
the issue was with file permissions then. I had the file access issues with my NAS drive. Not having correct permissions set would affect my download speeds.
This is WIP video!
It works and it's a progress? 😉
I successfully did this yesterday, with help from this video. One hiccup: ./cc_chipid returned ffff. Needed to edit CCDebugger.c and re-make as described in github.com/jmichault/flash_cc2531/issues/9#issuecomment-557893592. Also, my chipid showed as b522 instead of expected b524, but this is also mentioned in the same thread. Thanks, Mat.
I had a friend struggling with it too... check the board version it should be printed on PCB
Thanks Andrew that helped, I also had to change my cc delay to 90 to get the reading go from ffff to b524. And comment out the delay calibrate.
And of course thanks for NotenoughTech for making the video.
Hallo sir, I have a question, I try this method, when I try to get chipid the return value is ID = 8d22, if I try cc_erase: erase result is 00a2, and I failed to run the command of ./cc_write /path/to/CC2531ZNP-Prod.hex also file, so I end up run ./cc_write CC2531ZNP-Prod.hex. Then I try to continue the step by starting the zigbe2mqtt, but the process failed at npm start : Error while starting zigbee-herdsman. Is it because the flashing cc2531 is not yet sucessfull?
I already multiple times check on the wiring, and I never get the same chip id as your description, could you help please? thanks in advance
Can you check the board version? It's printed on the PCB
@@notenoughtech the board is CC2531 usb dongle Rev 2.4 sir...
Thx for replying
@@visitor5914 The same as mine. Are you using correct firmware? You should take a look at the table linked in the article to pick the correct version
@@notenoughtech Sir can I ask a silly question? Is the chip on your dongle written "CC2531" as the printed text on the dongle board? I just realize after staring on my dongle, the chip is "CC2540 F256" while the printed text on dongle board is cc2531......
"----____________----- it seems like that was the cause why the chip id is different....
And the result after looking for solution, this QA (github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/issues/220) say: "The CC2540 is a cost-effective, low-power, true system-on-chip (SoC) for Bluetooth low energy applications"
Need to buy the right module....for other people please double check, cause the online shop only write cc2531 doesn't mean its chip is cc2531.......so sad.......
:"((((((((
lol, i used exactly the same wire colors in the esxact same pins by coincidence
Great minds think alike
Hi, this project depends on wiringPi but that is no longer available. It cannot be installed anymore. Error "zsh: no such file or directory: ./cc_chipid" BTW I am on Kali linux .
I just found this: WiringPi is PRE-INSTALLED with standard Raspbian systems. Please DO NOT try to follow any installation instructions you may be given anywhere else
Yes I think in bullseye wiringpi is now added as default.
your error indicates you are running the command from incorrect directory. make sure your file is in the current directory with "ls"
Why didn't they make this device with a hardware switch so you can click the switch plug it up to a pc via USB, flash it and then when it's flashed flick the switch back and use it in its normal mode.
It doesn't work for me with a today fresh raspbian installation.
The video does not work for you either, when you run "cc_chipid" it comes out ID: 0000, same with erase....., which means that it is not working.
the same happens to me
What board are you trying it on? Also is it v1.0 on PCB?
@@notenoughtech yes, mine is 1.0
Are you on RPI Zero? I get a lot of comments about issues with x1.0 my stick was 2.4
@@notenoughtech no,i have a raspberry pi 3
@@sagatxxx1 see if any of these would be helpful: github.com/jmichault/flash_cc2531/issues/10#issuecomment-544139748
Hello. I have problem with step 2: git clone github.com/jmichault/flash_cc2531.git ----> -bash: git: command not found. What am I doing wrong?
sudo apt-get install git - should help
@@notenoughtech Thank you. It helps. I have another problem: where should I story .hex file (CC2531ZNP-Prod.hex)? On SD card? Or on my PC? Thank you in advance!
Needs to be in the same folder as flash directory you can use mv command to move it
couldnt you just use female-female dupont jumper wires without soldering them to that header? it looks like standard 10pin header to me
The header on cc is way too small for that these pins are very close to each other
USSR. Good. Ok. Super.
Спасибо
this is not working wiringpi is not available, but is referred to by another package.
Have you tried installing it from a different source?
@@notenoughtech nope.. linked, is installed. and flashed. but I don't see myself in the zigbee2mqtt device.. it is not shown or connected..im flash as router/extender..
Does not work, WiringPi is off from internet and with version witch comes with raspbian wont flash correctly, does errors when flashing
Were you on "lite" or standard raspbian?
Lite
Verifying gives always errors, sometimes only one bit and other times 20 bits
Downloaded older version and it worked great wiringpi.com/wiringpi-updated-for-the-pi-v3plus/
@@OskariUusitalo Do you have the same result on the Full raspbian?
I tried everything(((((
Raspberry Pi 2B
pi@raspberrypi:~/flash_cc2531 $ ./cc_write CC2531ZNP-Prod.hex
ID = b524.
incorrect hex file ( : missing)
Did you move the file to the correct folder?
@@notenoughtech yes, upload to "flash_cc2531"
This tutorial is definitely not for beginners. It's great that you are doing this, but damn, it is missing a whole lot of info. For example how to move the hex file into raspberry. Definitely not for newbies :/
not knowing folder structure in linux I have no clue where the flash_cc2531 folder is :(
You can either upload it using FTP or simply put it the SD card and move to correct location
@@notenoughtech I finally found it! Thank you!!
It doesn't work anymore, because it needs wiringpi, which is deprecated..
Wiring pi library should be included now if not you can install via npm
Not enough light:-)
My recent livestream shows I'm working on this. I may not have fingers left when I'm done but the light should improve :) my recent stuff is better lit