Today I got a Sonoff Zigbee Dongle_E and updated it to lates firmware (V8.0.2)
I tried to add in openhab, but this failed. First it was allways initializing, later I got communication errors.
In Log I can see ncpversion 14 is not supported by openhab. As I’m not able to downgrade and firmware to 7.4.4 did not work from openhab console: Could the support for V14 be added in openhab?
Here the debug log:
2026-07-01 00:08:17.580 [DEBUG] [nding.zigbee.serial.ZigBeeSerialPort] - Connecting to serial port [/dev/serial/by-id/usb-Itead_Sonoff_Zigbee_3.0_USB_Dongle_Plus_V2_b297561a8f78f011a581aae70ba521c7-if00-port0] at 115200 baud, flow control FLOWCONTROL_OUT_XONOFF.
2026-07-01 00:08:17.825 [DEBUG] [nding.zigbee.serial.ZigBeeSerialPort] - Serial port [/dev/serial/by-id/usb-Itead_Sonoff_Zigbee_3.0_USB_Dongle_Plus_V2_b297561a8f78f011a581aae70ba521c7-if00-port0] is initialized.
2026-07-01 00:08:17.826 [DEBUG] [e.ember.internal.ash.AshFrameHandler] - ASH: Connect
2026-07-01 00:08:17.826 [DEBUG] [e.ember.internal.ash.AshFrameHandler] - AshReceiveParserThread thread started
2026-07-01 00:08:17.826 [DEBUG] [e.ember.internal.ash.AshFrameHandler] - ASH: Reconnect
2026-07-01 00:08:17.829 [DEBUG] [e.ember.internal.ash.AshFrameHandler] - ASH TX EZSP: EzspVersionRequest [networkId=0, desiredProtocolVersion=4]
2026-07-01 00:08:20.160 [DEBUG] [e.ember.internal.ash.AshFrameHandler] - ASH: Connected
2026-07-01 00:08:20.160 [DEBUG] [zigbee.dongle.ember.ZigBeeDongleEzsp] - Ember: Link State change to true, initialised=false, networkStateUp=false
2026-07-01 00:08:20.161 [DEBUG] [zigbee.dongle.ember.ZigBeeDongleEzsp] - Ember: Link State change to true ignored.
2026-07-01 00:08:20.167 [DEBUG] [zigbee.dongle.ember.ZigBeeDongleEzsp] - RX EZSP: EzspVersionResponse [networkId=0, protocolVersion=14, stackType=2, stackVersion=8020]
2026-07-01 00:08:20.167 [ERROR] [zigbee.dongle.ember.ZigBeeDongleEzsp] - EZSP Dongle: NCP requires unsupported version of EZSP (NCP = V14, supported = V4-V13)
2026-07-01 00:08:20.168 [DEBUG] [zigbee.dongle.ember.ZigBeeDongleEzsp] - EZSP closing frame handler
2026-07-01 00:08:20.170 [DEBUG] [e.ember.internal.ash.AshFrameHandler] - AshReceiveParserThread exited.
2026-07-01 00:08:20.227 [DEBUG] [nding.zigbee.serial.ZigBeeSerialPort] - Serial port ‘/dev/serial/by-id/usb-Itead_Sonoff_Zigbee_3.0_USB_Dongle_Plus_V2_b297561a8f78f011a581aae70ba521c7-if00-port0’ closed.
2026-07-01 00:08:20.227 [DEBUG] [e.ember.internal.ash.AshFrameHandler] - AshFrameHandler close.
2026-07-01 00:08:20.227 [DEBUG] [zigbee.dongle.ember.ZigBeeDongleEzsp] - Ember: Link State change to false, initialised=false, networkStateUp=false
2026-07-01 00:08:20.228 [DEBUG] [zigbee.dongle.ember.ZigBeeDongleEzsp] - Ember: Link State change to false ignored.
2026-07-01 00:08:20.228 [DEBUG] [e.ember.internal.ash.AshFrameHandler] - AshFrameHandler parser thread terminated.
2026-07-01 00:08:20.228 [DEBUG] [e.ember.internal.ash.AshFrameHandler] - AshFrameHandler InterruptedException processing EZSP frame
2026-07-01 00:08:20.228 [DEBUG] [e.ember.internal.ash.AshFrameHandler] - AshFrameHandler processor thread terminated.
2026-07-01 00:08:20.228 [DEBUG] [e.ember.internal.ash.AshFrameHandler] - AshFrameHandler close complete.