Flashing Tasmota on Sonoff ZigBee Bridge

[@blakadders]

Its not a CC2530 on the ZbBridge!

[@notenoughtech]

Now it is! This is what I have for looking at text without reading. Corrected in the article but it will stay in the video forever :D

[@blakadders]

@@notenoughtech You can always do the awkward overdub :P

[@notenoughtech]

@@blakadders I'll just pin the comment. I honestly thought it was using the CC2530 despite me breaking it down as MG21 in my preview video. Maybe I should worry about lack of coffee, grey hair and problems with the memory as well - Thanks for pointing it out

[@blakadders]

@@notenoughtech Ginkgo Biloba for memory :D Gray hair is just a sign of wisdom and experience, or it should be :P

[@notenoughtech]

Clearly notenoughgreyhair considering my faux pas!

[@Luthia04]

It is possible to modify the SonOff ZGBridge to work with the Tuya app

[@notenoughtech]

No. But you can use Tuya API to create virtual devices. I have a guide about the API on my page

[@andreassetterlind]

I have been following that Tasmota development discussion thread and placed and order for the device but will be using it as a networked-attached Zigbee coordinator adapter for ZHA in Home Assistant via Tasmota’s new serial bridge that was also made for this. ZHA in Home Assistant is much more user-friendly and should be much easier for any beginner than struggeling with ZIgbee2Tasmota and MQTT

[@notenoughtech]

One day I'll look to HA... For some reason never found the appeal. NodeRED on the other hand ... Worth time investment

[@andreassetterlind]

NotEnoughTECH You can of course use NodeRED integration inside Home Assistant. However for Zigbee beginners ZHA in Home Assistant is great today as they have managed to made it really user-friendly now. Home Assistant is getting better GUI support with each version released, however is otherwise mostley famous for having the most ready to use integrations which just about anyone can use without having to learn how to code for real

[@notenoughtech]

Don't get me wrong, I don't dish on HA - i think it's a great tool and has a strong community support. I just never felt an urge to switch :)

[@andreassetterlind]

NotEnoughTECH It is still very much related here since ZHA in HA had a nice simple GUI for Zigbee to very user friendly to get started for beginners with this Sonoff Zigbee bridge

[@oriolis08]

@@notenoughtech You can have the best of both worlds! I use Nodered for my automations, HA it's the central hub for all my devices. There's an addon for NodeRed in HA that expose all the HA entities to NodeRed.

[@SmithyScotland]

Good to know Tasmota now supporting the ZigBee bridge. When sonoff announced it the tasmota revs said they wouldnt be supporting it.

[@andreassetterlind]

I read that too, however it really does look like a too attractive price and hardware specification not to hack, so it was boubd to happen sooner or later, just glad it did not take as long as I thought it would, but will probably take longer before it is stable and easy for anyone to flash

[@notenoughtech]

It's pretty decent considering how early it is. I'm little behind with some pairing instructions for specific sensors but I'll try to make a clear video about it and name things right 😂😂

[@reviewassistant6891]

@@notenoughtech what is compatibility looking like compared to running a pi with zha?

[@notenoughtech]

It's still early but with a bit of work everything seems to be posting back to the bridge. For now I'd say it's still in experimental stage and if you are trying to have something working 100% I'd wait a couple of weeks until bugs are fixed

[@soovui]

Hello Mat, another fantastic brilliant move u had made... Looking forward to see more and more and u r the best for sharing such a wonderful skill.

[@notenoughtech]

Can't claim any credit for hacking it. But only provide clear instructions how to do so. Thank you

[@matthewmcclay]

Yeah, we’ve been waiting for the bridge to flash Tasmota and now we can add mesh sensors. How do we control the sensors/ ZBswitches? Flashing was easy, just friction fit jumper ends by clipping them with a fine pair of wire cutters at a point. Jumpered without soldering.

[@matthewmcclay]

Backlog Weblog 3; Module 0; Template {"NAME":"Flash ZBBridge","GPIO":[56,208,0,209,21,22,0,0,0,158,0,0,17],"FLAG":0,"BASE":18}

[@matthewmcclay]

Paste this command in the console but now the “Map” function is gone and the toggle buttons are functional through the Main Menu but pressing them has no function.

[@notenoughtech]

I have to revisit this as it had been a while

[@konradbjk]

I am getting "OSError22 Non existing device, None, 433"while tasmotizing. Bridge lights green but dongle lights neither rx nor tx leds. Any suggestions? Device is visible on Windows.

[@RobertNorrman]

Flashed it! 😃 Trying out the pairing right now.. 🤔

[@notenoughtech]

Awesome! It's more complex than zigbee2mqtt tho

[@Genieuk2003]

Newbie here - if I flash Tasmota to my zbbridge, will I still be able to use it from ewelink and pair previously unsupported devices in it. I want to do this as my Tuya scene switch and Lidl smart plug, both standard zigbee 3.0 devices are not being detetected through the standard off the shelf zbbridge and ewelink, and without having to go through the complexity of setting up HA and having a dedicated machine for HA.

[@notenoughtech]

If you flash you won't be able to use eWeLink anymore. But you will be able to pair ZigBee devices that were not compatible with eWeLink in the past. Without HA or nodered you will do yourself a disservice as you won't have as sophisticated controls as with server

[@alanturnbull7528]

Did you ever make the video showing how to set up your zigbee devices. I cannot operate the switch sensor in Node Red Tasmota but can in Node Red EwElink then cannot see the temp/humidity sensors in EwElink but can in Node Red Tasmota?

[@notenoughtech]

How does it report in ZigBee log? I have an article about adding unsupported devices to ZigBee networks. I'm away so just use search on my page for the link to the article

[@Mickman2009]

Nice video. You got yourself a new subscriber. @NotEnoughTECH I noticed that you're not backing up the original firmware of the bridge. I flashed my Sonoff POWR2 a while ago without backing up the original firmware and now i can't restore it to work with the Sonoff app. What's your view on that concerning the bridge and backing up original firmware in the first place before using custom firmware?

[@notenoughtech]

I have backups "just in case" but I have not flashed one back yet ;) it's better be safe than sorry. The worst case scenario it is that you will wait until some clever people iron out the kinks in the software

[@blackcyclist]

Love the videos & I subscribed! I wish I knew programming so I could try this on my sonoff bridge. But fortunately I'm brave enough to try it. 1st I need to buy a soldering iron & a raspberry pi. Anything else I should get?

[@notenoughtech]

Try 'cc2531 you will find it much easier to work with.

[@blackcyclist]

@@notenoughtech do you have a referral code Amazon link for this?

[@notenoughtech]

notenoughtech.com/featured/get-cc2531-on-the-itead-store-instead/ Links are here. Do consider ITEAD stored as comes preflashed

[@danielgomez5562]

Wow. That was really quick. Thank you.

[@notenoughtech]

I know. Brilliant minds out there !

[@dynacube]

Why am I having such a problem lately trying to pair SNZB-01 with my Sonoff bridge? I have two other of the same switch and had no issues pairing those. I bought several brand new switches and they all will not pair. The app never even finds them when I quick pair them. Have I forgotten a step? Do I have to do something to the bridge first or is it always in a state that accepts pairing requests? All I'm doing is removing the switch from it's packaging, removing the battery disconnect plastic and then attempting to pair. After that fails, I press the reset button on the switch for 5 seconds until I get the 3 red flashes. Still nothing. I have even replaced all the batteries, but since they give the red flashes after pressing the reset switch, I know the batteries aren't dead. Any ideas?

[@notenoughtech]

I had the issues like this with sensors that had low battery voltage. Can you verify it is over 3.0? Another issue would be presence of 2.4GHz band in close proximity

[@dynacube]

Yes. I’ve gone through an entire 10 pack of brand new Energizer batteries. My whole property is covered in 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi. There are literally zero weak spots as far as Wi-Fi goes. Thank you for the reply!

[@dynacube]

@@notenoughtech Duh! Silly me. I forgot I had to add the button as a sub device of the bridge. 3 days of frustration. Lol. Thanks for your help!

[@notenoughtech]

Oh, that's fun I'm glad you persevere and kept the units otherwise it be a very costly mistake :)

[@MikeySoft]

Great video. 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 network key with zigbee2MQTT for increase zigbee security. Does the Sonoff zigbee bridge also have this feature? Thanks

[@notenoughtech]

You can run the sonoff ZigBee in stand alone mode so it only relays the traffic via mqtt

[@dfgdfg_]

NotEnoughTECH, please I only have 1 GND pin on my USB to TTL adapter... do I split the wire?

[@notenoughtech]

Yes you can

[@fpguerreiro]

Hi... Great vídeo... Just have question, how to use the tasmotized Bridge with node red.... Dont found any way to do it...

[@notenoughtech]

Both talk to MQTT so that's how you make it talk to each other

[@ari802002]

Very nice video but I stuck on the Tasmotizer Failed to connect to ESP8266: Timed out waiting for packet header on the back of the board is written YP-05 can you help me ?

[@notenoughtech]

Sounds like it's not in the boot mode. Make sure you are grounding GPIO00 on power on

[@ari802002]

@@notenoughtech yes it is grounded

[@ari802002]

@@notenoughtech which colour should it be green or blue ?

[@notenoughtech]

In my video I used yellow but you have the pinout available to double check. If you can't get it to flash by restarting the pin as shown simply power off with GPIO00 connected to ground then switch it back on. Make sure your FTD has enough power to feed your board. especially if you do this on older laptops. Consider applying 3.3v from another source if you fail each time

[@jaimesamaniego5763]

Hello Mat, please your help, when flashing ends there was an error (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.

[@notenoughtech]

So you are able to initiate the flash and you can see the progress but never ends successfully?

[@jaimesamaniego5763]

@@notenoughtech Thanks for your answer. Yes, the flashing process initiates, the satatus bar goes to 100%, then error with MD5 of 0xFF appears. I traying with Z_RST to graund, and the result is same.

[@thomaswildgruber7396]

Thanks for this video. I have flashed my ZBBridge with Tasmota and also got it in ioBroker. But in ioBroker i can't find the move detector (Sonoff SNZB-03) that is connected to ZBBridge. Any ideas?

[@notenoughtech]

When I was writing this it was early in Dev. The issues were relating to bindings. Check GitHub thread about that and you may find a solution

[@decosse01]

Thank you for your guide I was able to successfully complete the process to Tasmota (first time attempting this on ANY device) - and complete the config and add both Sonoff and Aqara sensors and even re-name them; Fun to learn a new process; but then realized I can't do much with it, I use SmartThings and Alexa. So attempting to reverse back to Sonoff but this is not going quite so well! I saved the original firmware as backup and re-flashed but now nothing happens - I only get brief green led when powering on, then nothing .... Any suggestions? I did erase before flashing back the Sonoff - did this delete the Zigbee Module? Will it work if I re-do the original process, complete the zigbee OTA step and then re-flash WITHOUT erasing?

[@notenoughtech]

Hi, frankly speaking I'm not 100% sure how to do this as the process is 2 fold. We are basically flashing tasmota (easy to reverse when you have a backup) but also we are changing the firmware on coordinator IC. If you want to use this with 3rd party, configure MQTT and connect it with NodeRED. You won't regret it

[@arunsdk]

Thank you for the video, i was able to successfully flash mine using your instructions and i did manage to pair few xiaomi sensors and switches to it. However, I'm unable to control the switches . The ZbSend didn't work from the console ie command executed, but no change on device and im also not able to handle special cases like double click the switch etc,

[@notenoughtech]

for now I'm just waiting for this to mature a little bit as things are moving quick with the firmware so whatever i will post about compatibility might be obsolete a week later

[@arunsdk]

@@notenoughtech precisely.lll keep using zigbee2mqtt till then

[@usmangojra]

hi, first i was not able to connect with bridge as per the jumpers arrangement. Then came to a reddit discussion where many people advised to connect Z_RST to GRD as well in addition to GPIO0. I am able to flash successfully this way , tasmota AP appears, i can connect and enter my wifi ap details. bridge can connect to my router and i can access it with IP. the problem i am facing is that it is constantly connecting and disconnecting to router , normally both LEDs on bridge are off but every 20- 30 LED1-Zigbee (green) on bridge blink and then LED2-Wifi (blue) starts blinking, meaning its disconnected to router and then it connects again but few moments later again LED1-zigbee blink and LED2-wifi also starts blinking and bridge is disconnected from router again. I cant proceed further with flashing zigbee chip. I tried falshing bridge several times but same happnings....can anyone help whats wrong am i doing?

[@markverstappen1365]

Could you also make a video where you flash esphome on a sonoff zigbee bridge?

[@notenoughtech]

Probably won't happen at this moment sorry

[@andreassetterlind]

Zigbee chip is a Silicon Labs Mighty Gecko Series 2 (”MG2” series for short) which is currently the latest wireless chips in their EFR32 family. Long name but ”MG” is short for ”Mighty Gecko” which have many wireless chips. Maybe edit video with text overlay there for correction?

[@notenoughtech]

It's a minor thing. With the time I have I just updated the article.

[@pictureright969]

Thanks, how do I switch off the sonoff bridge without powering down? It is working as an alarm that cannot be put off which is a pain, when I am home or has to keep going off because I am there, unplugging the unit doesn't sound right, what should I do

[@notenoughtech]

Try using automation schedules in the app to control when sensors are active. You should be able to link a button press to arm as well

[@FedericoGranata]

Wonderful ...now I have to buy a soldering iron, the sonoff zigbee bridge and a shitload of zigbee sensors ... BTW the last time I used a soldering iron I was in school more than 20 years ago and I was pretty lame at it ... how many bridge do you think I'm gonna fry?

[@notenoughtech]

But burning your fingers is fun! From practice I can tell you that it's harder to damage electronic than your fingers ;) And there is so many nice soldering irons you can treat yourself too. Check out ts80p based on ts80 I reviewed that. Excellent for small jobs. I think you'll make it work 1st time

[@FedericoGranata]

​@@notenoughtech I like my fingers more than I like my electronic. I'm thinking about a third hand to help with soldering because I have a shaking hand. Maybe it's better if I prioritize my expenses ... If I buy a lot of shelly then I can controll them with the sensors ... otherwise all those sensors are gonna be pretty useless (but cool nontheless)

[@notenoughtech]

You have 10 fingers for a reason 🙈🙈 Always set work well. Find place to rest your palm and the shake will go away. I laughed about it as I burned my pinky on last livestream 🙈🙈🙈

[@FedericoGranata]

@@notenoughtech how dare you assume how many fingers do I have? :D

[@notenoughtech]

😂🤣😂 tell me ... What really happened 20 years ago 🙈🙈

[@Kbecao86]

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

[@notenoughtech]

Hey. sorry for late reply, I could swear i seen a similar question on the GitHub thread for sonoff ZB - perhaps check out there? I'm not too sure about how to answer it

[@patriciowallace446]

Hi, I did all the connections ok, try to flashed with tasmotizer and the zb bridge.bin 9.1.0, but a message happen at the end "md5 of file does not match.." any idea ?

[@notenoughtech]

Its been some time since I posted this. I know the development on this was quite rapid. You would have to check with the GitHub thread I'm afraid as I'm not sure why

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@notenoughtech]

Always a pleasure to see your comment Ron!

[@LTGnetwork]

seem to be stuck in the tasmotizer i keep getting write time out ?

[@notenoughtech]

Something may not be connected correctly. Or check if you are putting the device into flash mode. Use hardware reset with the spare pad

[@LTGnetwork]

@@notenoughtech i've figured it out. i have a 1.1 Version board and also need to ground the z_rst pin to be able to flash it

[@okanerdem]

it's working only with ZHA? not possiblee with Zigbee2MQTT?

[@notenoughtech]

it's been a while since this came out. Not sure if z2m is available

[@okanerdem]

​@@notenoughtech Which is good ? I mean what do you think about ZHA and MQTT? I've a issue with temp sensors. Sometimes temp data update 1 hours. Do you have any temp sensor? If yes, do you have same issue?

[@notenoughtech]

Updates from sensors should be at about 1 every 5 min at min. These things are hard sometimes to diagnose. Could be conflict of channels with WiFI, range, poor mess or bad zigbee routing. I personally find easier to work with z2m but that's based on my preference only. If I spend that much time with zha i would probably by equally proficient

[@famchristoffer6673]

What about the range of this Sonoff bridge vs the cc2531 Zigbee stick?

[@notenoughtech]

Hands down sonoff bridge has better range

[@perhansen79]

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.

[@notenoughtech]

have you tried to flash tasmota_lite image then upgrade from web interface?

[@perhansen79]

@@notenoughtech Yes, the lite version is working with wifi, but thats without zigbee features, right? I tried to select the zigbee version from the web interace, but the upgrader returned something about wrong file match. I can't remember the right error. Is there something i must do in the consle before upgrading from the web interface?

[@perhansen79]

@@notenoughtech Just triede the upgrade from the web interface. It returned : Sonoff Basic Module Tasmota Upload Failed Upload buffer miscompare

[@notenoughtech]

@@perhansen79 was the erase completed successfully before the flash? I'm shooting blanks if I'm honest

[@perhansen79]

​@@notenoughtech Yes i would think so. There was no error indicating otherwise. I also tried without erasing the flash, but then it looked like it was not flashed even though it finished as it should. The funny thing is that tasmotizer says its connected to ESP8266EX, not ESP8266, i dont know if that makes a different. Its ok, I appreciate you trying to help. I am also out of ideas.

[@zoltar99]

Hi Mat, I received mine yesterday, flashed Tasmota without any issue but I am unable to flash the EFR32. It keeps saying Retry Count Exceeded Transfer incomplete. Any ideas what could go wrong?

[@notenoughtech]

Did you reset the efr32 through the toggle or by shorting the pins

[@zoltar99]

@@notenoughtech I shorted the rst and gnd pins

[@notenoughtech]

There is a link to the GitHub page. I know the process moved forward a little bit so I'm waiting for now otherwise my next video will turn obsolete quick as well. Try posting the issue there or try the latest tasmota build that has a new option of pushing the geko firmware

[@zoltar99]

@@notenoughtechThanks Mat, I have the latest tasmota, but not sure about the geko firmware. I also tried digiblur's method which is a little bit different than yours, no luck. I get confirmation that it was flashed successfully but later on when I try to add the Home Assistant integration it cannot find the zigbee bridge.

[@notenoughtech]

try the firmware I used to confirm if your coordinator is posting correctly - can you see the firmware logs in tasmota console?

[@rodrigojds]

Hello, I am a total beginner here! Can somebody please explain to me how does tasmota and home assistant and MQTT all connect together? Ive heard all those terms before but it is very confusing! :-( I purchased a raspberry pi and a CC2531 device which I flashed with MQTT. I am able to run MQTT on the Pi and the devices are detected. Now what? My idea is to control everything in one place. How does home assistant fit in? And tasmota? And advice would be greatly appreciated! thanks

[@notenoughtech]

MQTT is a message protocol. Tasmota Nodered and home assistant have endpoints to use MQTT. Tasmota runs on the devices and is able to use MQTT to interact with hardware (check tasmota commands) and pass data to MQTT from sensors. Nodered and home assistant can subscribe to that data (each stream is called topic) and use that information to process it and act upon it. Then control messages can be sent back to change the state of tasmota devices

[@FedericoGranata]

Just a couple of question ... I just bought a zigbee bridge and I discovered that it has a limit of 32 characters for the wifi password (mine is longer). Do you know what's the tasmota limit for wifi password length? Have you ever tried to flash tasmota using a raspberry pi instead of a usb - ttl adapter?

[@notenoughtech]

I didn't know there was a limit.. what on earth do you use as your password 🙈🙈

[@notenoughtech]

I have the flash adapter so never tried the pi for anything other than cc2531

[@FedericoGranata]

@@notenoughtech a simple password longer than 32 characters... I learned of this limit the hard way after a lot of trying and a lot of search...

[@notenoughtech]

@@FedericoGranata i have a short password but all devices get blocked automatically upon joining ;) WiFi or not

[@FedericoGranata]

@@notenoughtech do you have a whitelist for Mac address?

[@fredericdesmet1689]

Can I add multiple zigbee hubs this way in home assistant?

[@notenoughtech]

Yes you would be able to

[@alanpritchard2921]

My zigbee bridge won't talk to me both Tasmotizer and ESP Easy can't talk to it on different machines (one Windows, one Linux), Serial interface is set to 3.3v and has been used for configuring a Sonoff Basic recently. When IO0 is grounded the blue light is on constantly does that mean the ESP is ready for flashing?

[@notenoughtech]

I'd have to check, but if my memory severs me well, the light was off when I was flashing mine. Have you tried shorting it to a GND pad on the board like I did instead? Also check the polarity of TX-RX

[@alanpritchard2921]

@@notenoughtech Thanks for getting back to me. The light stays on if the pin is held low like in this and other videos. If you just hold it low during power up and then release (like Sonoff mini button press) the light flashes and then goes out when released, I've tried both methods and get the same result (timed out waiting for packet header) I'm certain of wiring TX to RX and vice versa but have tried with the reverse polarity with the same result. One thing I haven't done is connect this bridge to ewelink first, could it be that there is some loop it has to go throug first before it can be flashed? Alternatively I wonder if my 3.3v isn't strong enough as when I did the mini I found that I couldn't do the OTA update while attached to the programmer I had to plug it into the wall for the power to be stable enough.

[@notenoughtech]

If I recall... The light goes off when in flash mode. Make a perm ground connection with GPIO00 then power cycle it by disconnecting the vcc.

[@alanpritchard2921]

@@notenoughtech Thanks for your help, on mine the green (sorry not the blue as I said earlier) stayed on while GPIOoo was grounded but it accepted the firmware fine once I tried a different serial card, looks like the one I got originally isn't great. So it's now rockin Tasmota ready to start adding devices! Cheers, Great video BTW.

[@notenoughtech]

I'm glad to hear that you got it working! Congratulations

[@CyrilHenry]

Hey thanks for your tuto ... but I cannot flashing my Sonoff Zigbee :( I've got a FT232RL , wire is OK (check with several website) .. but still connecting... and error message. My Zigbee is ligthing on Green and blue ... But nothing happened :( Could you hepl ? Reset button to put in Flashing mode ? Voltage is ok too Thanks for your help ;=)

[@notenoughtech]

on an odd chance of having newer than me FTDI - have you tried swapping TX RX ?

[@jkljkl6]

Good shout, It seemed like it was ripe for opening up

[@notenoughtech]

More stuff is being confirmed as working so soon a follow up

[@learysd11]

No need to solder the pins. Just put your pins though the holes an apply a little pressure.

[@notenoughtech]

Clearly I need to put my pins on diet! :)

[@titomonsal]

@@notenoughtech there are some thinner pins around, as shown in Travis Griggs video (I had to solder too). there's an easier way to do the second flash: Tasmota's OTA.

[@stephennutt2565]

Does anyone know what Zigbee channel the bridge uses or if it is changeable in Tasmota? I already have Hubitat running on Channel 20 and want to experiment with the Sonoff Zigbee bridge but don't want to interfere with Hubitat.

[@notenoughtech]

I'm pretty sure I have seen the channel selection menu somewhere.

[@TOMTOM-nh3nl]

Thank YOu

[@georgegeorge899]

That we see... But can we flash zigbee on a wifi device ? I don't want to teach my clients how to "ingenier" their houses on a computer. BTW I work in construction and I get asked about "smart home"... The only answer I can give is KNX EiB. After 20 years since zigbee came out we still don't have a solid substitute for KNX !!! Lame...

[@notenoughtech]

You can't flash ZigBee on WiFi chip as they are 2 different protocols. Its a little bit like fitting a new engine into a car. You have to have a similar engine to make it work. ZigBee is pretty standardised (at least by home automation standards). Moving onwards it I think Matter will be the protocol of choice but for the next 3 years I think zigbee will be very much the most popular standard

[@georgegeorge899]

@@notenoughtech ...you already doing it with Tasmota... you are flashing Tasmota over wifi/zigbee devices. The esp32 chip is on both. You can buy same devices with wifi or zigbee. Is just the software that is different... And price.

[@notenoughtech]

Not correct. This device comes with esp based chip to handle WiFi and ERF to handle ZigBee component. You need both to handle corresponding protocols.

[@LuisCarlosMalo]

Hello again, I'm still a little bit stuck on the get it done as you did : ) My would like to integrate it with HA, so I installed the ota ncp-uart-sw_6.5.5_115200.ota ################# 00:00:02 HTP: Web server active on tasmota_zbBridge-4824 with IP address 2.0.0.124 00:00:03 RSL: tele/tasmota_zbBridge/INFO1 = {"Module":"Sonoff ZHABridge","Version":"8.4.0.3(zbbridge)","FallbackTopic":"cmnd/DVES_D7F2D8_fb/","GroupTopic":"cmnd/tasmotas/"} 00:00:03 RSL: tele/tasmota_zbBridge/INFO2 = {"WebServerMode":"Admin","Hostname":"tasmota_zbBridge-4824","IPAddress":"2.0.0.124"} 00:00:03 RSL: tele/tasmota_zbBridge/INFO3 = {"RestartReason":"Software/System restart"} 00:00:03 RUL: SYSTEM#BOOT performs "TCPStart 8888" 00:00:03 SRC: Rule 00:00:03 CMD: Group 0, Index 1, Command "TCPSTART", Data "8888" 00:00:03 TCP: Starting TCP server on port 8888 00:00:03 RSL: stat/tasmota_zbBridge/RESULT = {"TCPStart":"Done"} 00:00:07 RSL: tele/tasmota_zbBridge/STATE = {"Time":"1970-01-01T00:00:07","Uptime":"0T00:00:09","UptimeSec":9,"Vcc":3.514,"Heap":29,"SleepMode":"Dynamic","Sleep":50,"LoadAvg":19,"MqttCount":0,"Wifi":{"AP":1,"SSId":"XXXXXX","BSSId":"F8:32:E4:XX:XX:XX","Channel":9,"RSSI":100,"Signal":-41,"LinkCount":1,"Downtime":"0T00:00:03"}} 15:24:35 NTP: UTC 2020-08-26T14:24:34, DST 2020-03-29T02:00:00, STD 2020-10-25T03:00:00 15:24:35 APP: Boot Count 20 15:24:35 CFG: Saved to flash at F4, Count 54, Bytes 4096 #### serial device path: socket://2.0.0.124/:8888 port speeed: 115200 ##### Error message: Unable to connect to ZHA device. Any ideas why it cannot connect? If I repeat the process with the ota "ncp-uart-sw_6.7.6_115200.ota" I get exactly the same error. Thanks in advance!

[@notenoughtech]

Log indicates that WiFi component works ok, since you cannot connect to Zigbee on Home Assistant - I would check if you have correct MQTT configuration on both ends.

[@LuisCarlosMalo]

NotEnoughTECH OMG! It’s a new installation and I thought mqtt wasn’t necessary. I will try again configuring mqtt on both sides and let you know. Thanks again

[@LuisCarlosMalo]

It seems to be working now but when I try to connect some xiaomi devices as PIR sensor, door / window sensor etc I get the following messages. Could you pair some devices with this Tasmotized Sonoff ZG Bridge? Thanks in advance! 0x495d] Node Descriptor: [0x495d] Discovering endpoints Tries remaining: 3 [0x495d] Extending timeout for 0x3f request Ignoring message (b'18060a05052300001800') on cluster 257: unknown endpoint or cluster id: 1 Ignoring message (b'18080a00001801') on cluster 1030: unknown endpoint or cluster id: 1

[@notenoughtech]

I only tried some sensors in the early build. Things moved very fast so I decided to leave it for a month or so as info otherwise would be outdated quickly even this flashing option works but was outdated after a week so right now you are on your own with testing. No doubt I'll return to this and make a proper guide when I get the time and changes don't happen in weekly basis

[@LuisCarlosMalo]

NotEnoughTECH thanks a lot!

[@briandurward]

After successfully setting up the CC2530 in a RPI (and a mesh network) using your instructions I have now managed to flash the Sonoff Zigbee Bridge. Can I ask, how do the 2 systems relate to each other and if I pair devices am I pairing to the CC2530 or to zigbee2tasmota. Yours a bit confused.

[@notenoughtech]

You have to bind one device to another otherwise they will create 2 separate networks

[@briandurward]

@@notenoughtech Thanks, how do I do that?

[@notenoughtech]

ZigBee to tasmota reference should have the commands for it. You type it in console in tasmota web interface

[@MrFmscorreia]

And what about a Vibration Sensor from sonoff?

[@notenoughtech]

Don't have any updates about extra sensors

[@roelrijswijk3349]

Does anybody know how to make the output from the Z2T bridge visible in Domoticz? I have my sensors paired and see them in the Tasmota menu but I can’t find a way of getting it in Domoticz. Another problem is opening a port (like in Home Assistant port 8888) doesn’t seem to work for me. Anybody with an answer to this?

[@notenoughtech]

If you are on the same network you shouldn't need to open ports to get the messages through unless you have specifically blocked it. You need MQTT broker to send data from Z2T to domoticz

[@roelrijswijk3349]

NotEnoughTECH Thanks a lot for the swift answer! I have the MQTT broker working fine but I still don’t know where to find the data from the Z2T bridge in Domoticz... is it because I am a noob? ;-) I’ll carry on looking for it in Domoticz. I guess it’s part of the hobby....

[@notenoughtech]

I never used it but I would assume it has MQTT input to configure.

[@LuisCarlosMalo]

Hello, thanks for your great tutorials. I just tried to install Tasmota using a raspberry Pi and I get stuck at the following step: ##### pi@raspberrypi:~/esptool $ sudo ./esptool.py --port /dev/ttyS0 erase_flash esptool.py v3.0-dev Serial port /dev/ttyS0 Connecting... Detecting chip type... ESP8266 Chip is ESP8266EX Features: WiFi Crystal is 26MHz MAC: a4:cf:12:d7:f2:2b Uploading stub... Running stub... Stub running... Erasing flash (this may take a while)... Chip erase completed successfully in 4.2s Hard resetting via RTS pin... ##### so, erase flash seems to work but when I send the writing command does not connect anymore: ##### pi@raspberrypi:~/esptool $ sudo ./esptool.py --port /dev/ttyS0 write_flash -fm dout 0x0 tasmota-zbbridge.bin esptool.py v3.0-dev Serial port /dev/ttyS0 Connecting....... ##### Any ideas about how to do a RTS pin reset and write the flash? Thanks in advance

[@notenoughtech]

Try writing without erased part. Remember each time you do this you have to put the board back to flash mode

[@LuisCarlosMalo]

NotEnoughTECH thanks for answering. It does not connect and yes I have gpio + gnd connected together with DuPont cable to the gnd of my raspberry

[@notenoughtech]

Disconnect the reset pin and just manually reboot the esp by reconnecting the gnd pin. Start script first keep gpio00 low then reset the gdn.

[@LuisCarlosMalo]

@@notenoughtech It works! Thank you!!

[@johnsbond]

Managed to flash the device with Tasmota, and after power cycling the device (without 100 connected) the blue led flashes away. All good so far. Can then connect to its SSID and configure the wifi parameters, but after its reboot - nothing. Doesnt connect to my wifi, no flashing lights at all. Tried repeating the process a few times but still the same result. I've had issues with IOT devices connecting to my hub before but turning of 5ghz and restarting the hub always solved this. Shouldnt the device flash whilst it trying to connect to my wifi, think previous devices did?

[@notenoughtech]

Check if AP is present. If so lost connect to the AP and see WiFi credentials

[@johnsbond]

@@notenoughtech AP is available & in range, I've tried re-flashing multiple times & therefore retyped the wifi credentials several times but no joy. Doesnt the light on the Sonof flash until its connected? After entering the wifi credentials - no more lights on the device?

[@notenoughtech]

By AP I refer to tasmota in Access Point mode where you connect to the gadget directly via phone to complete the setup

[@johnsbond]

@@notenoughtech Yes after flashing I can connect to the tasmota in AP mode via phone. I get the setup page which I complete, its after this the device reboots & doesn't connect to my wifi network. I also thought with other tasmota devices the light on them flashes until it connected to wifi / mqtt?

[@notenoughtech]

I'm away from my sonoff to confirm but I believe lifts stops flashing and it's off after this. Have you tried opening its hostname ? Or use ring app to see if device joined the network.