Hello,
I am looking for a Zigbee coordinator that I can communicate with from my own developed home server and control Zigbee devices around the house. I need to communicate directly from my home server to the coordinator either using TCP or HTTP commands, to get list of connected devices, get device status, a device can inform me on a change (e.g. door opened), etc.
I have seen the product “Zigbee Gateway & Bluetooth Proxy For ESPHome”, SKU: ZG01-ESP-EU. Does it support direct communication as I need? If not, can I put on it the Tasmota Zigbee software (how to, and how to use)?
Thanks,
Motti
Someone else also posted in this forum about using zigbee2tasmota as well so they could use tasmota firmware to directly return responses instead of using zigbee2mqtt. You can look in this forum to see the post.
But always remember that the coordinator does not hold the state of any device. This is why I recommended using zigbee2mqtt and an MQTT server. This way all the heavy lifting has been done for you and you can focus just on your automation software.
I assume you are trying to write an alternative to home assistant. If not, you should check this out because it’s a very mature platform.
Hello, I am using the SLZB06 from SmLight which works perfectly in a POE setup and connect it via TCP to Z2M.
You can use zigbee2mqtt as a standalone product to communicate with this gateway. It will sync with an MQTT server which your home automation product could then work with.
Zigbee works on state changes and you need a reliable method to store and query those changes.
You can’t just query a coordinator about the status of a device. When the state of a device changes it transmits the data and you need to be able to receive and store this.
If I were designing my own platform from scratch, using zigbee2mqtt with an MQTT server would be mum preferred solution. This way, if my software was not running - or was restarted - i would not be out of sync as I could query any device status from the MQTT database.
I'm using Conbee II with my HomeAssistant. Works great, never had issues with it over last 2 years.
Home Assistant communicates with it using zigbee2mqtt. You need to check if you can access this API.