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.
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
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
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 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: ``````
@@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....
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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) .
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
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
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.
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
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 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"
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 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.
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?
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?
I flashed the newest Tasmota zbbridge version 9.3 and noticed on the console output that my zbbridge was always restarting. After pasting the first command "Backlog Weblog 3; so65 1; Module 75" my bridge even freezed and after that although connected to my wifi I could not access the web UI anymore. Unfortunately I couldn't find any issue about this on github? By flashing the older version 9.2 everything worked fine....
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
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.
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/
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?
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 🤣
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.
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.
Good evening, Today i received my Sonoff Zigbee bridge, board version v1.1, dated 20200228. I walked through the proces described here and on your site. I get tasmoto on it and can change the wifi setting. The bridge connects to my wifi and it functions. After that i do the backlog command and then it isn't going like supposed to. First of all i see the cmd in the console and after that it doesn't say anything anymore. Also the wifi connection is dropped and there are a lot of connection timeouts. I've seen that in templates the custom template is selected and nog the sonoff zigbee bridge, do i have to select this? i didn't select a template due to the fact that it isn't written in the tutorials. Are there more people with this problem? Why is the backlog command making the bridge work? What can i do about it? Hoping you or someone has the sollution so i can proceed with flashing the zigbee chip and use the device in HA. Greetings, Mark
I've been updating the guide here, not much has changed but just a few things to look out for. www.digiblur.com/2020/07/how-to-use-sonoff-zigbee-bridge-with.html
Same problem here with board version v1.1 ... :-/ The updated guide unfortunately did not solve the issue. What is the command "Backlog Weblog 3; so65 1; Module 75" for exactly? Can you just skip this step or will there be a risk of bricking the device in one of the next steps? Thank you in advance and by the way: I love your tutorials. Great work!!!
@@digiblurDIY I flashed Tasmota 9.3. ... Shame on me and sorry for that. -> 9.2. runs perfectly. Thanks for the fast reply and the detailed guide. I should have just read it carefully.
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
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
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"??
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.
Plz guide which one should I buy Sonoff zigbee bridge pro 3.0 or SONOFF ZB Dongle-P Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus Wireless Zigbee Gateway Analyzer Zigbee2MQTT USB Interface Capture with Antenna I don't know how to flash any software. I need something that doesn't require any flashing. So that I can directly use it to add zigbee devices and use it with homeassistant. Kindly reply.
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
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! 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 :\
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.
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?
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.
Hi bro! One question, I have a Sengled kit With 4 bulbs and 1 hub, but my hub randomly stop working and it has no warranty left, so I saw this sonoff bridge with zigbee and also want to use it with their door and motion sensor, but I did not get that if I can use the sonoff bridge directly with the Sengled bulbs or if I have to do the flashing mod that you explain in the video, I hope you can help me with this! Keep on your videos I have subscribed bro! 👌🏻👏🏻
No bro, I’m using Sengled app for my lights, and I want to upgrade for a little more security at home on the cheap, so I looked for the sonoff zigbee that’s why I wanted to asked you if I could use my Sengled bulbs with it :) or what do you recommend me, I don’t wanna spend more money for the Sengled hub to replace mine that no longer work
You might be able to pair them, not really sure. I tried some other temperature sensors with the Stock EWELINK app and it worked. This was before modding/flashing it.
digiblurDIY thank you, I’m gonna buy it and try, if not, I will follow your instruction for your blog to flash it 🤣 thank you bro! Greetings from Mexico!
Right, typically you would just power cycle your device the way it is. I didn't want it connected to the flasher and possibly impact the Xmodem xfer of the secondary chipset. So we pull the power, put it back in the case and fire it back it up.
digiblurDIY thanks boss. I understand this precaution is for bridge type of devices which has two chips. we will power cycle other devices when it is connected to the USB after flashing.
I've got a problem with the Sonoff Button (eWeLink WB01). Only the battery state shows up. I've tried removing and re-pairing it with no change - only the one entity shows for the device. A door/window switch and motion sensor work OK. Any ideas as to what the problem may be?
I don't have one to test with it, that might be one of those devices they need to set up a handler for in ZHA as it doesn't go by the zigbee alliance. pypi.org/project/zha-quirks/ www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha#reporting-issues
@@yaronkeinan3869 Yes, it's sorted now - see this thread: community.home-assistant.io/t/unable-to-pair-sonoff-zigbee-snzb-01-wb-01-buttons/218324 It should help. Jim
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.
Might be easier to plug the USB/TTL device into a breadboard, then connect the jumpers between the breadboard and the Zigbee bridge. This would also let you plug two separate ground wires to the breadboard.
Whatever way you do it is perfectly fine, seen it done a bunch of ways. Not everyone has breadboard stuff so I tried to make it as minimal as possible without the S word.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ?
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
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
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?
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.
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
Aqara cubes seem to not work well with this bridge. You only get the battery entity (tried 20+ times). Also, you have to double check that the second file had been successfully flashed, getting the success message!
@@digiblurDIY cube and overall Switchs has a odd way of work in ZHA (and with deconz too) they only have the entity battery, but for the actions you only see it on the events Page. Choose zha_event and manage the cube or switch and you Will see an event showing.
@@finipini Thanks for this info. I thought my Aqara cube wasn't working well either, but based on your comment about zha_event, I was able to add automations based on triggers for Aqara cube, such as 'Device rotated right', 'Device rotated left', 'Device shaken', etc.
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?
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 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?
Does it make sense to buy Sonoff RF bridge for door sensor and others, when now is available Zigbee version of it? Which is the better ratio price to options and quality?
On a different note, I managed to pair Xiaomi temp sensor (aqara) Tradfri gu10 lights Tradfri button Smartthings plugs Somehow I struggled to pair the Xiaomi door/window sensors Any advice appreciated Somehow
I just had the issue with Aqara motion. Nothing I would do would make it pop up stuff in the logs. I kept hitting pair, but nothing. Took the battery out. Nothing. Finally I held the button down for 10 seconds or so, at about 5 seconds it started blinking differently. Then I let go and pushed the button again, and boom it started filling the logs up.
How do you find the update times on the Tuya sensors? I have a couple of Tuya sensors and they seem to only wake up to send data every 5 minutes. Even the motion detector (Tuya) is pretty unreliable sending data. Other brands seem to be fine though.
@@digiblurDIY I guess I am use to the Hue ZigBee sensors that update immediately on a reasonable change and they are very responsive on the motion detection. The Tuya motion detector will go to clear then won't go back to detected until it's been clear for 5 minutes. Quite frustrating. Unfortunately in the bathroom I can't use an esp due to no easy way to get power to it. Thanks for the great video :)
@@digiblurDIY I got my AM312 down to 1 second. I use that in the kitchen because I have power easily available there. Hue sensors are 10 second cool down, but you pay a fortune for Hue. I guess you get what you pay for. Still, 1 minute is better than 5 Tuya have.
Hey there, I am struggling to get this running. Every time the update is done, it looses wifi connecting. I am using tasmotizer 1.2.1, i tried on windows and linux. I also tried NodeMCU flasher from windows. The flash itself is going as it should, no problem there. But the tasmota AP is only showing up shortly, and i cant connect to it. I tried several phones and computers, no luck. I even tried setting the wifi within tasmotizer, also without any luck. The funny thing is when i flash with the normal tasmota firmware, without zigbee, everything is working, but obvious no zigbee function. I tried several versions of the firmware, but all zigbee versions ends with no wifi access. Have you seen that before? My sonoff board is ver. 1.1 2020.02.28.
@@digiblurDIY No, because I did not think that was the problem, as it worked with the normal tasmota version. I actually came a little closer to the end goal, with a workaround. I flashed with tasmota_lite version, and did a OTA to the zigbee version. That seemed to work okay... i think. Now i am stuck with a upgrade failed, when i select the ncp_uart-file. The console says something about "bootloader initialized failed" and right after that, the firmware upgrade fails. I tried all sort of commands in the console, before upgrading, but nothing helped. I am not sure, if its because of my workaround or not. When i run these commands "Backlog weblog 3; SetOption65 1; Module 75;" in the console i even get the zigbee map and pair button on the main page, but of course it says zigbee not started. Thanks for you suggestion, I appreciate it.
Thanks for the video, extremely helpful. Did everything like you said and all working except the last step. After issuing the command "backlog rule 1...." to start the TCP server on port 8888, the log in console showed that the TCP:Starting TCP server on port 8888, RESULT ={"TCPStart":"Done"}. But after opening Zigbee HA in Home assistant and creating the serial device path using the line socket and adding the static IP, it throws Failed to Connect. Can you tell whats the issue here. By the way I am using the portable Home Assistant app. Thanks
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.
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.
@@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.
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?
"Don't bump it. Just sit still" - underrated advice.
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.
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
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
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
Great 👍 thanks for the feedback!
that's my current problem... how did you solve it?
thank for your time
@@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:
``````
@@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....
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!!
Glad I could help!
Ordered a Zigbee bridge today and some sensors, TH-cam later recommended this video (coincidence?)
Great video as always.
Perfect!
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.
so glad I read the comments... Xiaomi/Aquara devices are just want I wanted to add with this hub. Any better luck?
@@ein57ein They work great, once paired to the hub.
You may have to try several times, but they will eventually pair.
really dig the quick flashes of overview of what will happen during the video at the start. More people should do that!
Thanks! It takes a little time but I try to do it from time to time. I really like the chapters feature in TH-cam now on the time line.
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.
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.
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.
@@digiblurDIY Exactly! I saw that video and tried flashing it with external power, but still no luck.
i cant get my ch340g to flash. any tips?
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.
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!
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
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.
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!
Followed this video yesterday, 06/01/22 and still relevant.
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.
Hard to brick them unless they were physically fried.
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) .
Good to hear
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
I have a newer v1.1 bridge, there is more white text on the pcb. The whole procedure works though. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the report.
Just got working a SNZB-04 (window/door sensor) and SNZB-02 (temp/humidity) from Sonoff :)
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
I have them and they work fine. Try to pair them up again.
Might be the battery apparently. They can be a little ropey
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.
Yep, I had to try several times too on those. Someone else said if they are too close it causes an issue?
I hope to continue and thank you again for your efforts to benefit brothers and friends
Now off to order the sOnOff ZigBee bridge
Thanks a lot! Your guide was prefect. Have Mijia/Aqara sensors and Sonoff S31ZB Plugs up and running in my ZB network.
Great to hear!
Oh the zigbee! Oh the zigbee!
Let's not and say we did.
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
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
I would try posting ZHA issues to the developers of the integration on the HA forums.
I really need to get one of these now
Great guide. Awesome to have this control within HA now. Thanks!
Great to hear!
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.
Able to finally get it right?
@@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"
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 ;)
Limitation of the HA Zigbee Integration?
@@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.
Thanks! You made this process trivial!
Glad it helped!
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
The process should do that automatically but if there is some hardware issue I could see that having to be manually done.
Same here. Thanks for the info!
Did you connect Z_RST & GND for whole process ?
Great video. Very straight forward, just followed the steps and got it working in one go.
Woohoo! Great job and thanks!
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?
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.
Thank you very much. I learned a lot from you. I wish you success as well
Thank you! You too!
Also just got the Aqara Temp sensor and Door Sensor working
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?
You could try adjusting the LED settings in the template but I haven't done it myself.
Thank you so much from India.
I flashed the newest Tasmota zbbridge version 9.3 and noticed on the console output that my zbbridge was always restarting. After pasting the first command "Backlog Weblog 3; so65 1; Module 75" my bridge even freezed and after that although connected to my wifi I could not access the web UI anymore. Unfortunately I couldn't find any issue about this on github? By flashing the older version 9.2 everything worked fine....
I updated the guide yesterday to not use 9.3 as others had the same issue.
This is great mate! Thank you, you've saved me hours :D
Glad I could help!
I just love your content ! Keep up the great work and thank you for everything !
Glad you enjoy it!
Thanks sir good one as always
My pleasure
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
I don't know of any API on it. I would still flash a Sonoff Basic though too.
@@digiblurDIY Thanks Travis
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.
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/
@@digiblurDIY Got it. Tks man!
On order, thanks
Great video, Travis! Thank you. To clarify, will there still be a Zigbee mesh that's created when using this bridge?
Yep. That's the stuff I went over at the end showing the mains powered plug was showing up as a router/repeater.
@@digiblurDIY Awesome! I thought I caught it correctly but wanted to be sure. Thanks, brother.
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.
Great video! But I have a question..after flashing the device will it still be visible in the sonoff app?
thanks!
No. You are taking the control over the device you bought and bringing it local.
@@digiblurDIY thank you for your answer :-) Is there any way of flashing the devices to back to their original software if needed?
If you have serial TTL access to the device you would back up the firmware before overwriting it.
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?
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 🤣
@@gregologynet I see talk of this but nothing complete. If you have it figured out can you post what you did?
Same here. SNZB-01 connects without issue, only reports battery status.
Awesome video as always! How much better are the signal comparing to nortek?
I have also to disable zwave due to interference 😞and using smartthing for the zwave stuff
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.
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.
Got it! Thank u!So you think worth upgrading from nortek to Sonoff( you got much better coverage) or not much
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.
Good evening,
Today i received my Sonoff Zigbee bridge, board version v1.1, dated 20200228.
I walked through the proces described here and on your site.
I get tasmoto on it and can change the wifi setting. The bridge connects to my wifi and it functions.
After that i do the backlog command and then it isn't going like supposed to.
First of all i see the cmd in the console and after that it doesn't say anything anymore. Also the wifi connection is dropped and there are a lot of connection timeouts.
I've seen that in templates the custom template is selected and nog the sonoff zigbee bridge, do i have to select this? i didn't select a template due to the fact that it isn't written in the tutorials.
Are there more people with this problem? Why is the backlog command making the bridge work? What can i do about it?
Hoping you or someone has the sollution so i can proceed with flashing the zigbee chip and use the device in HA.
Greetings,
Mark
I've been updating the guide here, not much has changed but just a few things to look out for. www.digiblur.com/2020/07/how-to-use-sonoff-zigbee-bridge-with.html
Thanks for the reaction. Going to check the link. Hopefull to get everything working 😃
Same problem here with board version v1.1 ... :-/
The updated guide unfortunately did not solve the issue.
What is the command "Backlog Weblog 3; so65 1; Module 75" for exactly? Can you just skip this step or will there be a risk of bricking the device in one of the next steps?
Thank you in advance and by the way: I love your tutorials. Great work!!!
Board version doesn't matter. Where are you stuck?
@@digiblurDIY I flashed Tasmota 9.3. ... Shame on me and sorry for that. -> 9.2. runs perfectly. Thanks for the fast reply and the detailed guide. I should have just read it carefully.
Nicely explained 🙂
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
Reflash it.
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
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.
@@digiblurDIY Thanks, I just ordered an sonoff zigbee bridge :)
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"??
Thanks! I haven't seen any firmware for that. Just the two versions for either mode.
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.
Very clear, thanks
Plz guide which one should I buy Sonoff zigbee bridge pro 3.0 or SONOFF ZB Dongle-P Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus Wireless Zigbee Gateway Analyzer Zigbee2MQTT USB Interface Capture with Antenna
I don't know how to flash any software. I need something that doesn't require any flashing. So that I can directly use it to add zigbee devices and use it with homeassistant.
Kindly reply.
USB adapter for sure! Plug and go.
@@digiblurDIY thank you for the reply
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
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! 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 :\
There's no 433mhz radio in there.
Good helper
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.
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?
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.
thank you
I have many com ports memorized for different device interfaces.
Hi bro! One question, I have a Sengled kit With 4 bulbs and 1 hub, but my hub randomly stop working and it has no warranty left, so I saw this sonoff bridge with zigbee and also want to use it with their door and motion sensor, but I did not get that if I can use the sonoff bridge directly with the Sengled bulbs or if I have to do the flashing mod that you explain in the video, I hope you can help me with this! Keep on your videos I have subscribed bro! 👌🏻👏🏻
Are you using Home Assistant or anything else?
No bro, I’m using Sengled app for my lights, and I want to upgrade for a little more security at home on the cheap, so I looked for the sonoff zigbee that’s why I wanted to asked you if I could use my Sengled bulbs with it :) or what do you recommend me, I don’t wanna spend more money for the Sengled hub to replace mine that no longer work
You might be able to pair them, not really sure. I tried some other temperature sensors with the Stock EWELINK app and it worked. This was before modding/flashing it.
digiblurDIY thank you, I’m gonna buy it and try, if not, I will follow your instruction for your blog to flash it 🤣 thank you bro! Greetings from Mexico!
Thanks boss. You are the man. What is power cycle?
Like my kid would say... Where you cycle the power.
Turn it off and turn it on.
digiblurDIY little confused you say we are not gonna power cycle but you are doing it by unplugging from computer and putting it back in the case
Right, typically you would just power cycle your device the way it is. I didn't want it connected to the flasher and possibly impact the Xmodem xfer of the secondary chipset. So we pull the power, put it back in the case and fire it back it up.
digiblurDIY thanks boss. I understand this precaution is
for bridge type of devices which has two chips. we will power cycle other devices when it is connected to the USB after flashing.
SSSSSSSSUPER !!!!! TKS FORM ITALY !!!!!!!!
I've got a problem with the Sonoff Button (eWeLink WB01). Only the battery state shows up. I've tried removing and re-pairing it with no change - only the one entity shows for the device. A door/window switch and motion sensor work OK. Any ideas as to what the problem may be?
I don't have one to test with it, that might be one of those devices they need to set up a handler for in ZHA as it doesn't go by the zigbee alliance. pypi.org/project/zha-quirks/
www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha#reporting-issues
@@digiblurDIY Thanks Travis - I'll follow up the links you've given.
Have the exact same problem. Jim, did you manage to solve it?
@@yaronkeinan3869 Yes, it's sorted now - see this thread:
community.home-assistant.io/t/unable-to-pair-sonoff-zigbee-snzb-01-wb-01-buttons/218324
It should help.
Jim
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.
Try holding z-rst to ground the entire time.
Will the sonoff zigbee work right out of the box with Yale locks?
any recommendations for zigbee flood sensors?
Aqara leak shows supported amzn.to/3klgW2l
github.com/zigpy/zha-device-handlers
Of course I have used some not on this list.
Might be easier to plug the USB/TTL device into a breadboard, then connect the jumpers between the breadboard and the Zigbee bridge. This would also let you plug two separate ground wires to the breadboard.
Whatever way you do it is perfectly fine, seen it done a bunch of ways. Not everyone has breadboard stuff so I tried to make it as minimal as possible without the S word.
Dude. It’s time to shave your head. Bold is beautiful baby!! Be bold and proud!👍🏻
Would it look weird leaving the pony tail though?
Wondering where you got the junper lead from. Mine is too big and won’t fit. Thank you for your video.
Those are breadboard jumpers.
@@digiblurDIY My breadboard jumpers were little thick. So ended up using ethernet wires instead. Thank you for your detailed guide.
Can I use this guide to flash my pir's smartlife sensors ? Thank you
I haven't flashed any zigbee battery sensors before myself.
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.
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?
I paired a bunch of random stuff with it. Tuya zigbee, Sengled bulb, Aqara, gledopto or something.
I put my ground on the pin that goes through&through the board ....
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.
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.
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 ?
I saw some issues posted with Ikea stuff on the Tasmota side they did fixes for. ZHA might need to implement the same ones.
Thank you!
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
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
Hey do you know are there any strobe sirens that can work with the Sonos zigbee Bridge
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.
I haven't tried myself but you should be able to control them as they probably just attached to GPIO pins.
@@digiblurDIY I see in the template that they are setup. I guess I really should be asking if they are normally both out?
I will have to check to see. Mine is in a closet so I rarely put eyes on it.
Dupont jumpers dont fit in the holes. Are breadboard jumpers skinnier?
Yes, that are smaller. If you don't have any you could use some wire out of a cat5 cable too.
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?
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.
hii how r you bro i have question can i add tow sonoff zigbee bradges on my hassio
Run one in router mode.
how to make it as router
So why would I replace a sonoff RF bridge flashed with tasmota (successfully) with a zigbee bridge.
I didn't. My RF bridge is rocking and rolling next to the Zigbee Bridge.
@@digiblurDIY What a relief; thanks for the reply.
Can you have 2 of these on your network? Or will the 2 zigbee networks interfere with each other?
Put them on different channels. You would need to use a different integration though for the second.
Do you know how range of this bridge compares to USB pens with antenna (such like ZZH and other CC2652R based)?
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
Aqara cubes seem to not work well with this bridge. You only get the battery entity (tried 20+ times).
Also, you have to double check that the second file had been successfully flashed, getting the success message!
One of the reasons I did this one for that success message thing. I don't have any cubes, haven't seen those. Only the Aqara temperature and motion
@@digiblurDIY cube and overall Switchs has a odd way of work in ZHA (and with deconz too) they only have the entity battery, but for the actions you only see it on the events Page. Choose zha_event and manage the cube or switch and you Will see an event showing.
@@finipini Thanks for this info. I thought my Aqara cube wasn't working well either, but based on your comment about zha_event, I was able to add automations based on triggers for Aqara cube, such as 'Device rotated right', 'Device rotated left', 'Device shaken', etc.
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?
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?
@@digiblurDIY only temperature and some switches. Going to pair it again and place it next to bridge for a day to test it out.
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.
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?
@@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?
Does it make sense to buy Sonoff RF bridge for door sensor and others, when now is available Zigbee version of it? Which is the better ratio price to options and quality?
Zigbee is going to be better for security and sensors/devices hands down. But 433mhz is going to have some awesome range though.
@@digiblurDIY One more question! What is the difference between Sonoff Zigbee bridge and USB dongle, and why you should buy one, or another?
One is tied to the server and one is pretty mobile being a bridge. The bridge allows me to put it in the middle of the house.
On a different note, I managed to pair
Xiaomi temp sensor (aqara)
Tradfri gu10 lights
Tradfri button
Smartthings plugs
Somehow I struggled to pair the Xiaomi door/window sensors
Any advice appreciated
Somehow
Sounds like me on the Aqara motion sensor. Took me 5 or 6 tries to get it.
@@digiblurDIY I've tried more than 20 times with no success 😞
I'll hit the guys on discord if I can't get them to pair.
Thank you again
I just had the issue with Aqara motion. Nothing I would do would make it pop up stuff in the logs. I kept hitting pair, but nothing. Took the battery out. Nothing. Finally I held the button down for 10 seconds or so, at about 5 seconds it started blinking differently. Then I let go and pushed the button again, and boom it started filling the logs up.
@@digiblurDIY hmmm, I'll try this method
How do you find the update times on the Tuya sensors? I have a couple of Tuya sensors and they seem to only wake up to send data every 5 minutes. Even the motion detector (Tuya) is pretty unreliable sending data. Other brands seem to be fine though.
That seems to be the norm unless there is some rapid change. I would go with esp based sensors so you can set your own times if you want faster.
@@digiblurDIY I guess I am use to the Hue ZigBee sensors that update immediately on a reasonable change and they are very responsive on the motion detection.
The Tuya motion detector will go to clear then won't go back to detected until it's been clear for 5 minutes. Quite frustrating.
Unfortunately in the bathroom I can't use an esp due to no easy way to get power to it.
Thanks for the great video :)
Aqara motion has an over 1 minute cool down. I thought wyze was bad at 30 seconds. The 7 second AM312 will spoil you.
@@digiblurDIY I got my AM312 down to 1 second. I use that in the kitchen because I have power easily available there.
Hue sensors are 10 second cool down, but you pay a fortune for Hue. I guess you get what you pay for.
Still, 1 minute is better than 5 Tuya have.
Not sure where I got 7 seconds. www.sunrom.com/p/micro-pir-motion-detection-sensor-am312
Hey there,
I am struggling to get this running.
Every time the update is done, it looses wifi connecting.
I am using tasmotizer 1.2.1, i tried on windows and linux. I also tried NodeMCU flasher from windows. The flash itself is going as it should, no problem there. But the tasmota AP is only showing up shortly, and i cant connect to it. I tried several phones and computers, no luck. I even tried setting the wifi within tasmotizer, also without any luck. The funny thing is when i flash with the normal tasmota firmware, without zigbee, everything is working, but obvious no zigbee function. I tried several versions of the firmware, but all zigbee versions ends with no wifi access. Have you seen that before?
My sonoff board is ver. 1.1 2020.02.28.
Have you tried to swap power cables or power supplies?
@@digiblurDIY No, because I did not think that was the problem, as it worked with the normal tasmota version. I actually came a little closer to the end goal, with a workaround. I flashed with tasmota_lite version, and did a OTA to the zigbee version. That seemed to work okay... i think. Now i am stuck with a upgrade failed, when i select the ncp_uart-file. The console says something about "bootloader initialized failed" and right after that, the firmware upgrade fails. I tried all sort of commands in the console, before upgrading, but nothing helped. I am not sure, if its because of my workaround or not. When i run these commands "Backlog weblog 3; SetOption65 1; Module 75;" in the console i even get the zigbee map and pair button on the main page, but of course it says zigbee not started.
Thanks for you suggestion, I appreciate it.
If the uart file is failing that means it can't access the Zigbee chipset. It could be due to power supply issues or broken hardware.
Thanks for the video, extremely helpful. Did everything like you said and all working except the last step. After issuing the command "backlog rule 1...." to start the TCP server on port 8888, the log in console showed that the TCP:Starting TCP server on port 8888, RESULT ={"TCPStart":"Done"}. But after opening Zigbee HA in Home assistant and creating the serial device path using the line socket and adding the static IP, it throws Failed to Connect. Can you tell whats the issue here. By the way I am using the portable Home Assistant app. Thanks
Were you able to get Tasmota Zigbee to start as indicated in the guide?
@@digiblurDIY If you mean starting Tasmato Zigbee after flashing ncp_uart firmware, yes it rebooted after XMD:Successful
Test it in Tasmota Zigbee to make sure the chipset works.
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.
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.
@@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.
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?
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.