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
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....
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.
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!!
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
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 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) .
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!
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.
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
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!
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.
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....
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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'm trying to add the ZHABridge to Homeasistant but can't get it to connect I had it working previously but decieded to restart HA config due to a lot of old devices you can't remove and my ocd doesn't like that. I choose : - integration : Zigbbe Home Automation - Configure port manually - Radiotype : EZSP - socket://192.168.1.103:8888 115200 But then I get an "can not connect to device" and I can browse to tasmota (with 192.168.1.103) just fine there are no firewall blocking 8888. As said it did work before ... No changes was made other that removing the integration from HA and updating HA stuff. Same ZHABridge no changes was made to that. Any ideas?
I would try connect via putty or something to that port. Watch the Tasmota console with weblog 3 set and see if you can type in the terminal and see if it comes across.
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?
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?
I have quetions, in order to increate the range of zigbee signals due to my house have 4 floors, is it possible to have this Sonoff Zigbee bridge saveral units? Thank you very much.
Looking to do this to a Sonoff bridge I just picked up but want a way to go back to factory firmware if need be. I can backup the factory load using Tasmotizer, or others, but what about the ncp firmware change? Is there any way to back that up or reload the Sonoff supplied ncp firmware? Haven’t been able to find that anywhere.
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.
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.
Hi,, would you know if its possible to emualate a hue bridge ? i have an ambilight tv, and and have loads of esp8266 running wled.. would be good to emulate a hue bridge, i can connect my tv then to my wleds ?
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.
im on Hassio v 118. i accidentally use the OTA of ncp-uart-sw_6.5.5_115200. when i try to upgrade again using 6.7.6, the hub gave error: Upload Failed Magic byte is not 0xE9
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
I'm confused. In the video the guy constantly talks about tasmotO but the screen it says tasmotA, am I missing something here ? Is it TasmotA or TasmotO ?
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.
I tried the steps explained in the video and I ma getting the error "Failed to connect to ESP8266: Timed out waiting for packet header". Can you tell me what may be the mistake i am doing.
@@digiblurDIY many thanks for your response. I've just emailed with picture. this is the amazon link of the device www.amazon.ae/gp/product/B00IJXZQ7C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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/
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 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 anyone know what Zigbee channel the Bridge uses or if it can be changed? I already have a Hubitat running successfully on Channel 20 and bought this bridge to play with but don't want it to interfere with my Hubitat setup.
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
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
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 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
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
They may be incompatible with your hub (for example different protocols). The ZigBee hub can still see that something is in the mesh, but has no clue what to do with it..
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?
what if I connect this bridge straight into raspberry with hassio and didnt flash it with ncp-uart, just only tasmotaflash. Would it be cloudless and secure?
@@digiblurDIY I assume that flashing it with tasmota requires extra flashing for zigbee chip to communicate with bridge itself. But to have cloudless solution to we ever need to flash the bridge in first place?
I just got it to work. Started all over. Did the same thing though, don't know what the issue was, but it works now! Thank you for your reacting though 👍
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.
when uploading the ota file. It says upload fails with the message Magic byte is not 0xE9. What to do to rectify this? Even after entering the backlog command the module remains the same and teh device does not restart?
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.
No. That would require their cloud app. There are some open source ethernet based ones now. tubeszb.com/product/cc2652p2-based-zigbee-to-ethernet-usb-serial-coordinator/
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
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.
how to allow the bridge to send all the MQTT topics of the connected devices to the bridge onto the MQTT broker ? The only topics i get is the coordinator itself and not the sub devices.
"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
Followed this video yesterday, 06/01/22 and still relevant.
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....
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.
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!
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 UA-cam now on the time line.
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
Ordered a Zigbee bridge today and some sensors, UA-cam later recommended this video (coincidence?)
Great video as always.
Perfect!
Oh the zigbee! Oh the zigbee!
Let's not and say we did.
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 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.
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.
I hope to continue and thank you again for your efforts to benefit brothers and friends
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
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!
Just thought I'd stop by & say thank you. Got mine flashed easy enough. Xiaomi aqara devices give me a hard time pairing. Can't wait for the upcoming releases & support.
Working better than the the aqara gateway. Though it has been working for years, just every now and then lost signal with 1 motion sensor... Sonoff zigbee Bridge is running perfectly.
I 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.
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!
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
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
I really need to get one of these now
Thank you so much from India.
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 ?
Thanks! You made this process trivial!
Glad it helped!
Great guide. Awesome to have this control within HA now. Thanks!
Great to hear!
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?
Thank you very much. I learned a lot from you. I wish you success as well
Thank you! You too!
Great video. Very straight forward, just followed the steps and got it working in one go.
Woohoo! Great job and thanks!
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.
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.
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
Thanks sir good one as always
My pleasure
I just love your content ! Keep up the great work and thank you for everything !
Glad you enjoy it!
This is great mate! Thank you, you've saved me hours :D
Glad I could help!
Good helper
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.
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.
thank you
Very clear, thanks
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.
Nicely explained 🙂
SSSSSSSSUPER !!!!! TKS FORM ITALY !!!!!!!!
Also just got the Aqara Temp sensor and Door Sensor working
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
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
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.
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.
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.
I'm trying to add the ZHABridge to Homeasistant but can't get it to connect
I had it working previously but decieded to restart HA config due to a lot of old devices you can't remove and my ocd doesn't like that.
I choose :
- integration : Zigbbe Home Automation
- Configure port manually
- Radiotype : EZSP
- socket://192.168.1.103:8888
115200
But then I get an "can not connect to device" and I can browse to tasmota (with 192.168.1.103) just fine there are no firewall blocking 8888.
As said it did work before ... No changes was made other that removing the integration from HA and updating HA stuff.
Same ZHABridge no changes was made to that.
Any ideas?
I would try connect via putty or something to that port. Watch the Tasmota console with weblog 3 set and see if you can type in the terminal and see if it comes across.
Hey do you know are there any strobe sirens that can work with the Sonos zigbee Bridge
On order, thanks
is this still relevant n best route. found a 3.0 unit on bang good , same as this 1 ? it lists works with Alexa
Thank you!
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.
I am trying to add an Ikea remote to my Sonoff Tasmota bridge, but I can only get the batteri power feature in, not any bottoms. How to do?
Take a look at the zha_events listener and see if you can see the actions there.
Will zigbee devices keep on working if, for whatever reason, HASS is down with this setup? So if the Raspberry with hass shuts down... will I be able to switch the lights still?
The light switches will still work but of course not remotely unless you had like a button bound to a light then that button would still work.
I have quetions, in order to increate the range of zigbee signals due to my house have 4 floors, is it possible to have this Sonoff Zigbee bridge saveral units? Thank you very much.
This will explain the use of zigbee routers a little better ua-cam.com/video/TV5Qyssa7Ec/v-deo.html
Looking to do this to a Sonoff bridge I just picked up but want a way to go back to factory firmware if need be. I can backup the factory load using Tasmotizer, or others, but what about the ncp firmware change? Is there any way to back that up or reload the Sonoff supplied ncp firmware? Haven’t been able to find that anywhere.
Not that I am aware of.
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.
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.
Hi,, would you know if its possible to emualate a hue bridge ? i have an ambilight tv, and and have loads of esp8266 running wled.. would be good to emulate a hue bridge, i can connect my tv then to my wleds ?
Not sure on that one, I don't have any Hue stuff.
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.
im on Hassio v 118. i accidentally use the OTA of ncp-uart-sw_6.5.5_115200.
when i try to upgrade again using 6.7.6, the hub gave error: Upload Failed
Magic byte is not 0xE9
You would need to flip into Tasmota Zigbee mode for it to accept an OTA file.
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
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.
I'm confused.
In the video the guy constantly talks about tasmotO but the screen it says tasmotA, am I missing something here ?
Is it TasmotA or TasmotO ?
It is Tomato. You are hearing things.
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.
Will the sonoff zigbee work right out of the box with Yale locks?
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.
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.
Now off to order the sOnOff ZigBee bridge
Are there any reasons to upgrade from a CC2531 stick running zigbee2mqtt to this? My range is fine, just wondering.
I haven't used it with Zigbee2mqtt yet to compare. I did hear they are working on it.
I tried the steps explained in the video and I ma getting the error "Failed to connect to ESP8266: Timed out waiting for packet header". Can you tell me what may be the mistake i am doing.
I experience the same behaviour..
Check your wiring to be sure it is correct.
Hi, did you solve this problem? I'm in the same point, I review all the connection and try different ttl adapter, but i cannot fix this error
hi, i've purchased USB TTL (FTDI) , it has DTR,RX,TX, VCC, CTS, GND pins. I don't see 3v3, which pin should i connect for 3v3? please advise. thanks
Could you send a picture of the back of it to my email, use the channel name at the gmail domain.
@@digiblurDIY many thanks for your response. I've just emailed with picture. this is the amazon link of the device www.amazon.ae/gp/product/B00IJXZQ7C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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!
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 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 anyone know what Zigbee channel the Bridge uses or if it can be changed? I already have a Hubitat running successfully on Channel 20 and bought this bridge to play with but don't want it to interfere with my Hubitat setup.
Not really sure as I haven't dug into how the Zigbee intergration in Home Assistant works for controlling the advanced side of the network.
How many of bridges can you have? I have a large house with thick sandstone walls where the USB dongles don't work Futher than one room.
As many as you want as you can make them routers now.
@@digiblurDIY Sweet! Excellent news....thanks mate!
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
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.
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
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.
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?
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Greetings from Brazil
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 :)
PS, tried Ikea Tradfri on-off switch, it paired ok but shows up as unknown entity and does not seem to change state. Any thoughts?
They may be incompatible with your hub (for example different protocols). The ZigBee hub can still see that something is in the mesh, but has no clue what to do with it..
They might need a ZHA handler done for them if they don't follow the Zigbee alliance. github.com/zigpy/zha-device-handlers
@@digiblurDIY Thanks for pointer, bit beyond my skill level, but will give it a go.
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?
You probably are using the version of Tasmota that crashes on the bridge. I have a note in the guide to try 9.2. Did you try this?
Thanks, i got it working by using old version of bin file as mentioned in the written tutorial.
Woot!
Can I use this guide to flash my pir's smartlife sensors ? Thank you
I haven't flashed any zigbee battery sensors before myself.
what if I connect this bridge straight into raspberry with hassio and didnt flash it with ncp-uart, just only tasmotaflash. Would it be cloudless and secure?
Oh definitely secure at that point as it would have no zigbee radio.
@@digiblurDIY I assume that flashing it with tasmota requires extra flashing for zigbee chip to communicate with bridge itself. But to have cloudless solution to we ever need to flash the bridge in first place?
Hey man, thx for the video.
I`m getting a "failed to connect" when setting up the ZHA integration.
Could you help me out?
I'll need some more info. Were you able to get zigbee to start on the bridge itself?
I just got it to work. Started all over. Did the same thing though, don't know what the issue was, but it works now! Thank you for your reacting though 👍
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
when uploading the ota file. It says upload fails with the message Magic byte is not 0xE9. What to do to rectify this?
Even after entering the backlog command the module remains the same and teh device does not restart?
You have the wrong bin file uploaded then if module 75 will not set.
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.
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?
Maybe the wrong place to ask, but: Can one access (log into) the Sonoff Zigbee/Wifi unit via the wifi without going into this flashing stuff?
No. That would require their cloud app. There are some open source ethernet based ones now. tubeszb.com/product/cc2652p2-based-zigbee-to-ethernet-usb-serial-coordinator/
@@digiblurDIY Thanks for the reply. :-) I will look into that.
@@digiblurDIY Oh, by the way. I have the Zigbee/WiFi bridge PRO. It does have an Ethernet socket.
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
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.
how to allow the bridge to send all the MQTT topics of the connected devices to the bridge onto the MQTT broker ? The only topics i get is the coordinator itself and not the sub devices.
Change the module back to 75. This will put it back on Tasmota Zigbee mode.
@@digiblurDIY cheers !:) but whats the command how do i do that ?
Put in module 75 on the console or go to configure module screen and pick the bridge module 75