Hi,
I am using OH4 on a Windows11 computer. Most of the stuff I wanted to do with the openwebnet binding works.
Now I have added the Zigbee coordinator SLZB06. OH autodetected it. I have installed MQTT Binding and Zigbee Binding.
The SLZB06 appears with Channel, PAN ID, Network Security Key, Link Security Key, the correct IP Address and Port as a Thing in OH4.
Question 1: is this sufficient to get started to connect Zigbee devices?
Qeustion 2: how do I now connect Zigbee devices?
This device will provide a “standard” zigbee dongle for the zigbee binding. You don’t need MQTT installed (at least not for the SLZB-06.
If not already autodetected, you should be able to go to the Things page to add a new coordinator… Select the zigbee binding, then add a thing, and you should find the SLZB06 in the list. Set the IP address (or hostname) and you should be good to go I think.
Depending on if the adaptor has been initialised previously, you might need to create the zigbee network. To do this in the config, select Advanced, then click initialise network (I forget exactly the terminology used) and save.
I’ve been using the SLZB06 for 4 or 5 months and it’s worked well with a medium size network (35 or so devices at the moment).
The Thing Status says the thing online, so I think it should be working isn’t it?
Why do you think Z2M should be working?
I had to switch off and on the Zigbee Coordinator switch in the web interface of the SLZB 3 times and reinstall the firmware. Now it works and recognises Things which I can add now via Scan.
Thanks for enforcing that it should work. I would have given up after fiddling around for hours. The Coordinator switch was on initially and I would not have thought that it requires 3 installs of the firmware to actually getting it to work.
Strange. I think mine installed pretty easily from memory.
I’m not 100% sure what the coordinator switch does - I would have thought it does nothing given that in the mode the OH uses, the SLZB06 is basically just an IP connected dongle - the same as any other Silabs Ember dongle. Therefore this sort of configuration is all controlled by the binding…
I’ll ask the company that makes it - they were pretty responsive when I was implementing support for this. It might be that they can improve the interface to make it clearer that when Z2M/ZHA mode is not used, I think some of these settings are also not used… Hopefully, with your feedback, and some input from them I’ll try and make the OH doc a bit clearer…
Hi, after I finally got it to work I had to reboot the windows computer where OH4 runs. Now it get’s stuck in initializing status. Rebooting the SLZB-06M does not help. What helps is removing it from things, run through autodetect and re-scan to connect all things that have been connected to the coordinator. I have not idea why it does not initialise. I will contact the vendor. If anybody has an idea why that happens and how to fix it, would make me happy.
What do the debug logs show?
I would guess that contacting the vendor won’t help you - you need to work out what is going on by looking in the logs.
Have you initialised the device?
