Inspired by a recent post from @tv-arnd , here is a simple method to: See if the zigbee dongle (CC2531 in my case) is online or offline Switch zigbee2mqtt permit_join on or off Change the level of zigbee2mqtt logging things files bridge.things I use a separate things file for my Mosquitto bridge: B…

Please remove zigbee from the title. This is just for zigbee2mqtt, not the official zigbee binding.

But it is relevant to a zigbee dongle, which is there in full in the title.

Flashed with zigbee2mqtt firmware which changes it a lot.

Thanks for that. It didn’t work immediately for me but it does now after I fiddled with transformations and as a surprise suddenly 21 mqtt:homeassistant_zigbee2mqtt - things were autodiscovered. So apparently OH2 is happy, too. At first, when I clicked on the Permit Join - switch mqtt wrote z2m/br…

Interesting! Could you copy/paste your permit_join channel? Have you kept the on=“true”, off=“false” that I’ve got?

[image] Bruce_Osborne: official Official? Isn’t any solution from the community valid …

[image] shorty707: Official? Yes. Distributed with the openHAB distribution and has been for years.

Thank you! keep up the good work !

my apologies to @Bruce_Osborne for me showing continued interest in unofficial ways to talk to my tradfris, but hej, [Solved] Zigbee2mqtt vs "ordinary" zigbee - #10 by AndreasBrett … @hafniumzinc : Thing topic z2mBridge "CC2531" { Channels: Type switch : permitJoin "Permit join" …

While I agree the “official” zigbee is great - I have also found it to be completely useless due to the development path. Now that we have only the color Channel and CT channel with color bulbs it is impossible to have the bulb and know what state the bulb is in relating to switch or dimmer level. I…

Monitor and control zigbee2mqtt and zigbee dongle (CC2531)

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AFromD (Arno) July 4, 2020, 3:12pm 15

I worked around this with a rule that allows keeping lamps in HSB mode all the time. It will “translate” any CT commands into HSB commands. The CT channels are therefore not linked to their respective channels, they are just used to start off the rule.