Easiest zigbee to get working

[wuffer]

I have a few zigbee items from xiaomi, like buttons, power plugs and cubes.
I have tried the zigbee2mqtt but im not happy with it.

What is the easiest zigbee gateway to set up on domoticz? I use raspberry pi 4 4gb and raspbian.

I have been looking at zigate but im a little lost

[gerbenvanasselt]

@wuffer
Why are you lost. Zigate has a very active community and tutorials are very clear. So I would advice Zigate. The plug-in development is very active thanks to pipiche.

For preparation you can check Domo wiki page

https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Zigate

Or
https://github.com/pipiche38/Domoticz-Zigate-Wiki.git

After that you have decide if you go for USB, wifi, pi, Din variant and many more to come.a Depending on your wishes.

Zigate might be a bit more expensive but it is worth every penny or

Good luck with your search.

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[emme]

I use deConz... works like a charm!

[ben53252642]

To offer a slightly different perspective to the previous posts.

I have been using zigbee2mqtt for > 6 months now and I am very happy with it.

It could just be you are using an old out-dated firmware on CC2531 that has known issues?

[wuffer]

To offer a slightly different perspective to the previous posts.

I have been using zigbee2mqtt for > 6 months now and I am very happy with it.

It could just be you are using an old out-dated firmware on CC2531 that has known issues?

I could try it again. I can see that there is a new firmware.

[Trunald]

@wuffer
Why are you lost. Zigate has a very active community and tutorials are very clear. So I would advice Zigate. The plug-in development is very active thanks to pipiche.

For preparation you can check Domo wiki page

https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Zigate

Or
https://github.com/pipiche38/Domoticz-Zigate-Wiki.git

After that you have decide if you go for USB, wifi, pi, Din variant and many more to come.a Depending on your wishes.

Zigate might be a bit more expensive but it is worth every penny or

Good luck with your search.

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I have to respectfully disagree. I have been fighting with the PiZigate for three days now, facing a plethora of problems, and it still does not work. The tutorials for the install are in French, and you have to search back and forth to try and find things that were not mentioned anywhere but were miraculously needed for the install. Now I am stuck with domoticz not starting with
Oct 05 08:53:04 Domoticz domoticz[760]: Libgcrypt error: reading `/proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled' failed: Too many open files - abort

And even if I do ulimit -n 1024, the web service dont start, even though it doesnt give me that error anymore.

PiZigate has to be the worst product I have bought in years. Complete waste of money and time.

[wuffer]

Couldn't get zigbee2mqtt installed even tho i followed the guide on his webpage, lots of erros. So i bought the zigate usb. Hopefully it will work

[Thorgal789]

For me the easiest is deconz with conbee.
Installation procedure is fast, if you have a raspbian desktop install, just download a file and double clic on it.
All is working out the box, just plug the key, no more config, you have a web url for phoscon (https://phoscon.de/en/app/doc) and a GUI for power user.
There is install procedure for raspbian, unbutu, docker, windows.

[ben53252642]

Couldn't get zigbee2mqtt installed even tho i followed the guide on his webpage, lots of erros. So i bought the zigate usb. Hopefully it will work

Sounds like you might need to improve your knowledge working with Linux.

Each time an error occurs, search and understand why it is occurring.

The fault may not be with zigbee2mqtt at all but perhaps a lack of a needed software package on the system.

[waltervl]

I have to respectfully disagree. I have been fighting with the PiZigate for three days now, facing a plethora of problems, and it still does not work. The tutorials for the install are in French, and you have to search back and forth to try and find things that were not mentioned anywhere but were miraculously needed for the install. Now I am stuck with domoticz not starting with
Oct 05 08:53:04 Domoticz domoticz[760]: Libgcrypt error: reading `/proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled' failed: Too many open files - abort

And even if I do ulimit -n 1024, the web service dont start, even though it doesnt give me that error anymore.

PiZigate has to be the worst product I have bought in years. Complete waste of money and time.

I can partly agree with you that the French documentation is not very user friendly. The Google translate function of the zigate website is OK though. I just checked but you did not ask here on the forum about your issues. so I would advise you to create a new topic. The Zigate plugin is very well documented and the creator is very helpful.

[wuffer]

Couldn't get zigbee2mqtt installed even tho i followed the guide on his webpage, lots of erros. So i bought the zigate usb. Hopefully it will work

Sounds like you might need to improve your knowledge working with Linux.

Each time an error occurs, search and understand why it is occurring.

The fault may not be with zigbee2mqtt at all but perhaps a lack of a needed software package on the system.

Maybe. I got it up and running first time i tried it. Then it just stopped working and then nothing helped, not even a fresh install.

Got the zigate today and it is up and running. All devices have been paired and working. So for me the zigate is working better.
Not sure what to do with the wifi version, i only ordered the usb but got both

[gerbenvanasselt]

Welcome to the Zigate user community. It is growing everyday, which means the functionality will also be enhanced.

Wifi might be useful if your Domo server is not positioned in the center of you're home. You can place the wifi version wherever you want. You're not binded to one location. Through wifi it will communicate with domoticz.

One other thing, you can use the cc2531 as a range extender for the mesh network. Look at this.

https://www.twoenter.nl/blog/domotica/v ... ee-router/

If you're not Dutch it can be translated with Google translator

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[pipiche]

@wuffer
Why are you lost. Zigate has a very active community and tutorials are very clear. So I would advice Zigate. The plug-in development is very active thanks to pipiche.

For preparation you can check Domo wiki page

https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Zigate

Or
https://github.com/pipiche38/Domoticz-Zigate-Wiki.git

After that you have decide if you go for USB, wifi, pi, Din variant and many more to come.a Depending on your wishes.

Zigate might be a bit more expensive but it is worth every penny or

Good luck with your search.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn ONEPLUS A6003 met Tapatalk

I have to respectfully disagree. I have been fighting with the PiZigate for three days now, facing a plethora of problems, and it still does not work. The tutorials for the install are in French, and you have to search back and forth to try and find things that were not mentioned anywhere but were miraculously needed for the install. Now I am stuck with domoticz not starting with
Oct 05 08:53:04 Domoticz domoticz[760]: Libgcrypt error: reading `/proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled' failed: Too many open files - abort

And even if I do ulimit -n 1024, the web service dont start, even though it doesnt give me that error anymore.

PiZigate has to be the worst product I have bought in years. Complete waste of money and time.

@Trunald please let me know in an other post what the issues are. If you can post the log file this will be easier to find what the problem is.
The issue you are referring is the the first time I see it.

I know that PiZigate configuration is some how complicated. We have tried to document as much as possible, but it seems that they are few cases which doesn't fit into the Wiki, lets just enhance it.