openHAB and zigbee2mqtt Tutorial for Beginners

[tv-arnd]

Excellent step by step tutorial - it works as described - many thanks.
This works with the TI development board LAUNCHXL-CC1352P-2. Firmware as reported by zigbee2mqtt: zStack3x0 revision: 20191106
1st serial port /dev/ttyACM0 is correct (this device reports 2 serial ports over USB).

You can skip after step 1 in ‘openHAB Configuration’ (as transformations are no longer necessary). Keep on reading for thing and item configuration.

Zigbee2mqtt revisited: No more ugly transformations

I’ve been using zigbee2mqtt for quite some time, for details look here: and here: Recently I discovered a new option of zigbee2mqtt: attribute output. This option, in company with the mqtt2 binding, provides a nice solution. This option simply gets rid of the json-formatted output and transmits all attributes separately. You enable it via configuration.yaml. experimental: output: attribute The benefits are: no more json-encoded output => no jsonpath-transformation no more missing …