How to make custom Zigbee hardware | Home Assistant | Page 1

kindred flower Dec 18, 2024, 1:14 PM

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How hard would it be to make custom ZigBee hardware? Lets say I want to make a set of led lights that can be controlled using ZigBee. What kind of electronics would I need? I assume some kind of microcontroller like Arduino, ESP32, ...? What else?

Thanks

raven eagle Dec 18, 2024, 1:38 PM

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Esp32 C6 chip and a couple of others have zigbee support and are definitely the simplest way to get started

humble cedar Dec 18, 2024, 2:27 PM

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if you don't need zigbee but are ok with wifi, there's quite a few dev boards that can be used with the 'esphome' or 'wled' projects to control led lights of various sorts. I don't believe either of those projects have zigbee interfaces available at the moment - zigbee would likely require diving more into lower level coding.

kindred flower Dec 18, 2024, 3:02 PM

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Do you have an example of such a board?

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