openHAB and zigbee2mqtt Tutorial for Beginners

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There’s five steps to this:

  1. Install Mosquitto MQTT broker.
  2. Install zigbee2mqtt on your Pi. Follow the instructions from zigbee2mqtt.
  3. Pair your Zigbee device with zigbee2mqtt - find your device in this list and follow the instructions.
  4. Connect openHAB to Mosquitto
  5. Create a Generic MQTT Thing and configure it with the information for your Zigbee device.

Steps 1 & 4 are described here.

Step 5 depends on your Zigbee device. An example for a bulb is here.

Note that this assumes that your cc2531 already has the correct firmware, as per

If not, you will have to flash it using these instructions.

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