iTead Sonoff Zigbee Bridge | Quick Look & Setup
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Taking a quick look inside the Sonoff Zigbee Bridge with the ESP8266 chip inside!
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Just bought a Zigbee plug, a Zigbee bridge, and a USB WIFI switch from the link.
Don't forget to use the coupon code!
What coupon code? I can't find any in the description and I would like to preorder one
Apparently the sonoff zigbee devices will work with deConz on HA as well, if you have that already setup on HA and don't want the cloud involved.
HA should be able to convert the temp.
For zigbee that is incredible slow. I have the sneaking suspicion that those rules live somewhere in the cloud and the bridge has to talk all the way to Chine or whereever they run. Would ve nice to try with wifi internet blocked for the bridhe.
As soon as someone hacks it, I'm interested. Just started my Zb network. I should buy one to help test stuff...
looks like a cool device - wonder how it stands up to the conbee usb stick for using HA to control everything (including all the zigbee stuff)
Likely not well... Conbee is widely regarded as the best way (with deconz). Although I have had great success with z2m.
I'll buy one and bank it until there is a nice hack. I have a lot of ZB lights (Ikea) I won't be buying any more as the conbee is to unstable, but for those lights I have, it'll be an alternative to the Ikea hub that is properly awful
Do you know if the Ikea Zigbee lights (or any other Zigbee bulbs) will connect to the Sonoff bridge through Ewelink?
Nice concise informative video - thanks!
DIY means Do It Yourself
Indeed it does and did. www.digiblur.com/2020/07/how-to-use-sonoff-zigbee-bridge-with.html
Thanks Travis.
I "second" the motion.... (pun intended)
i cant connect to my mobile i tried everything....i change wifi serttings i tried i tried i tried....2 days now ..crazy
yes i agree with the dark mode. its hard to see the status of the devices like they use the color green when its on.
At least we don't have to use their app with this anymore.
can you set up a scene that a zigbee door sensor can be used when it open to turn on a lamp controlled by a Sonoff Basic using ewelink app?
Yes. You can have it turn on other Ewelink devices than zigbee
digiblurDIY Can it be used to control for example MagicHome devices? Or trigger Alexa routines? Thanks
@@N317H just want to help/ curently it is not supported, but... if you have smarthings hub or echoplus (with internal zigbee) it woiuld working fine and triggering routine.
Thank you. Just the kind of video I was looking for. I have some quick questions. Will be nice if you can answer them.
Firstly, the black RF bridge will connect ANY 433 MHz device with sonoff (ewelink) app where as the ZB bridge will only connect ZB devices? Am I right?
Secondly, If I do not have any ZB devices, then does it make sense to buy 433 MHz RF bridge instead and buy cheaper door sensors, PIR sensors etc and use them with Ewelink app? Thank once again.
Yes, the black one is 433mhz and white is Zigbee. I'm not sure what devices they support in their app beyond their own.
So, others device can be disconnected from local wifi? I mean you just need others device connect to zigbee bridge and control via it?
No sure I understand the questions. This is basically a zigbee radio out on your network.
Thanks for the video!
Which model of the door switch is used to indicate the Open AND Closed position?
I'm looking for something simple that would give me an indication when my garage doors are left open.
I was looking at Sonoff RF Bridge and Sonoff DW1 door switch but it only gives an alarm when the door opens (no feedback that the door has closed back or status O/C).
Integration with Google Home mini to query door status would be beneficial but door O/C status on the phone would be enough.
Thanks.
It was a simple zigbee door sensor that came with a Tuya Zigbee bridge that didn't work right but the sensor works with this one.
Hi, can you tell if zigbee switch can be controlled by other zigbee sensor without Wi-fi/LAN/Cloud?
Zigbee is a local protocol. It's all going to be based on the hub/bridge you use with it.
So what reason for this..?.is it a hub.? So if I buy 3 zbmini I can't interconnect them you less I have the bridge ??
Stock it is used to tie their devices to their app.
Board v1.1 dated 2020.02.028 can not be flashed , I have tried pretty much everything and on 2 boards i got , using different flasher software.
I haven't heard of any revisions from pre-production boards to brand new ones that can't be flashed. Where is the failure happening? On the esp chip?
@@digiblurDIY tried different TTL boards which work flashing other units, different computers, error msg Detecting chip type... ESP8266
Connecting.....
Unexpected error: Reading chip details failed: Timed out waiting for packet header
How can I integrate zigbee devices connected to the Sonoff bridge that are not made by Sonoff with Alexa. Currently, the discovery and adoption process into the Zigbee hub is quick and effortless. Unfortunately, Alexa and Google assistant do not see these zigbee devices.
I haven't used those devices with the firmware but I would assume once you do the integration with it.
After several months of this Bridge working, a HA upgrade broke it and I’m told this type of Zigbee bridge I’ver WiFi is not supported. Have you guys experienced something similar?
I have heard that since wifi does have its limits and causes people issues. It still works though as it is serial. However many people have moved to USB or Ethernet based Zigbee coordinators based on the CC2652P2 chipset.
@@digiblurDIY thanks for your reply. I have a USB dongle I can try. Any Ethernet based ones you would recommend?
If I have an Echo Plus do I need the bridge to interact with all sonoff zigbee devices?
While the SNZB-02 (temp & humidity sensor) does pair with the Echo devices that have Zigbee hubs in them, it only works for a bit and then becomes unresponsive.
The S31 lite ZB plug works fine.
Just use the Sonoff Zigbee CC2531 USB Dongle to send mqtt messages it also works on ikea devices, I have one and it works great on Node-Red
Yep, I covered a bit of that on a live stream and it is a decent solution but not sometimes people just want something in a nice case somewhat ready to go. Options are always good! Much like we could take a button, wemos and a relay to make a light switch.
I would like to buy this zigbee bridge and would like to connect zigbee smoke detectors to it. Sonoff doesn’t mention smoke detectors in the available devices. Have you tried adding them anyways or have any idea if this would work?
Only thing you can do is try, it really depends on the smoke detector if they went out of the realm of Zigbee or not.
@@digiblurDIY okay, thanks for your reply!
zigbee bridhe shows "offline " status on the eWlink app .any idea why
Multitude of issues could cause this. Internet, wifi, their cloud, etc.
Hi does this bridge works in LAN mode by default? (Without hacking)
No, it is cloud based, so I would call that WAN mode.
@@digiblurDIY thanks vm. hope SONOFF could do the same like any other their wifi based product - LAN mode whenever there is no internet connection.
Any advice if the device is stuck in offline mode?
I assume with stock firmware? Try to pair it up again with the wifi maybe?
@@digiblurDIY I tried and made sure it was the 2.4 ghz channel. I’m going to get a refund and try a different hub. ( hopefully a better one). Appreciate the response. 🙂
Just FYI, iOS has dark mode :)
Must be new? The few iOS devices I see around they still have those white apps.
digiblurDIY The dark mode is just an OS feature, same on iOS and Android. It is up to app developer whether to implement it or not.
on IOS and Android dark mode was released September 2019, almost same date
Thanks for the help with setup. I'm just a little concerned with security though.
Why is it necessary to provide my email address, location data and wi-fi credentials to the app just to setup a simple bridge?
Are we confident that information hasn't been sent somewhere where it might be used in future for someone to come to my home address and break into my network?
You might want to do the local ony option with Home Assistant.
IMPERIAL
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relating to an empire.
"Britain's imperial past"
Your chart is clearly wrong ;)
Tell me you have started to load Tasmota onto this!? :)
I have but then I loaded the stock firmware back on it to do a bit of RX/TX sniffing. I need to solder some wires to it as my setup was kind of bootleg with jumper wires I didn't want to mark up the board with solder marks just yet.
I saw the Digiblur soldering marks.......
Only used some breadboard jumpers on it. That's all iTead.
Hacking is always an option.... Did you try to coax a coupon out of them???
Too many things going on! I updated the coupon code they sent in the video description.
but but....but the cloud
Exactly! We need the non cloud hacking option soon.
Oh no, not the 'F'' word :-)
This will not work with tasmota or ESPurna because the protocol to communicate with the Silicon Labs chipset is not the same as the one created for zigbee2mqtt.
Hi, I’ve searched and read a lot these days about Zigbee so I give you some informations :
Silicon Lbas use its own protocol called EmberZNet, a serial protocol documented here :
www.silabs.com/documents/public/user-guides/ug100-ezsp-reference-guide.pdf
There’s already a very good DIY gateway which use an ESP32 and a CC2538 (a lot better than cc2531 because there’s not a small limit of the number of devices). It ‘s called SLS gateway. I’ve made a small article on it here :
www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/g30zq2/sls_zigbee_gateway_a_new_zigbee_gateway_based_on/
This gateway is zigbee to mqtt and doesn’t need an additional software : all the logic is in the ESP32. I’ve done mine and it works very well since few weeks. But the CC2538 has the same firmware than zigbee2mqtt so it will not be compatible neither with this Sonoff device… 🙁
So this new gateway from sonoff is very interesting because the zigbee chipset is probably good too for the price.
Read this article to learn informations about the EFR32MGxxx :
sprut.ai/client/article/2583
Also interesting : EmberZNet is already supported by home assistant with ZHA… but it is created to communicate with a silicon labs chipset on a USB dongle, not with MQTT…
Now we have to wait that someone handle the EmberZNet protocol on an ESP8266 or ESP32 😉
If it works with stock firmware now, I'm sure some reverse engineering will be done eventually to make it work. Never say never, much like the ESP32 Tasmota device.
digiblurDIY Yes, we have all we need to start a diy firmware. Looking forward to see that. Thanks for this great video.
Thanks for all the info! I saw there is a thread on the Tasmota Github too.
I modified the link to my reddit post (it was suppressed by spam bots :-( )
www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/g30zq2/sls_zigbee_gateway_a_new_zigbee_gateway_based_on/
YT comment section usually puts links for review but I try to approve them throughout the day. Much appreciated! Luckily it catches the porn bots though!
Don't give a sh** about the "dark mode" just dim down your background brightness.
How does that fix the white?
Apropos 'dark mode', yes he needs to get out more! I don't see any need for expletives though, it diminishes your comment?