#Thread, zigbee and kajplats

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woven citrus
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At first I was bamboozled without doing my proper research and bought a sonoff dongle max thinking it will support zigbee and thread at the same time. Zigbee for cheap Chinese stuff and thread for ikea lights because I like having warranty, and being able to just go and buy one if it happens to die unlike the gamble with chinesium.
So it turns out the sonoff dongle not only does not support both officially and the multiprotocol is a drowning in nothingness. Sort of deprecated working sort of still there if you reeealy want to. So not only that but I saw some threads on reddit that say that even the thread implementation is abysmal. There a proof of concept firmware by some guy available, but at the end of the day I figured if it's that much of a mess to set up, and who knows if the official support kicks back or hope someone dedicated will elbow greese it and for how long.. I just accepted that I have to eat up the price of both dongles if I want to have both.

So. Long life story. Questions that someone I hope would have more experience than me:
Whats a good thread adapter that's not zbt? because my setup can't accept usb devices at the moment
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If anyone has kajplats bulbs. Does the feature set diminish somehow if using zigbee vs thread? Because I have Shelly's gen4s and it's basically reduced to a cheapest chenesium relay with bare minimum features for x3-5 the price when on the zigbee firmware

marble arrow
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smlight slzb-06

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more expensive, but has your protocols (not at the same time) on board and can be powered over ethernet (PoE)

woven citrus
# marble arrow https://smlight.tech/global/slzb06

Oh those look sexy
Kind of bitter sweet that I got a good deal on the sonoff one, would have saved if I just went with the SLZB-MR* ones which seem to support both without the clunk if they so claim in your link

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If anyone else can comment on the ikea bulbs, I'd close this post

storm frigate
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If anyone has kajplats bulbs. Does the feature set diminish somehow if using zigbee vs thread? Because I have Shelly's gen4s and it's basically reduced to a cheapest chenesium relay with bare minimum features for x3-5 the price when on the zigbee firmware
@woven citrus Shelly doesn't contribute to zha/z2m, so it's possible the device has more features than exposed. Someone has to fully test the devices and add everything. I added some Shelly remotes to z2m, just based on Shelly docs and user-provided logs

For Zigbee/Thread lights, there aren't many features in general.. light control, power-on behavior and some transitions. Some Kajplats (big E27 transparent) are missing power-on behavior on Zigbee - verified. I'll test them further and document in the z2m device pages

woven citrus
# storm frigate > If anyone has kajplats bulbs. Does the feature set diminish somehow if using z...

Had a frustrating day with zigbee mode Shelly completely saying adios to wifi and remained in zigbee. Sure it can turn on and off and show a bit of stats.. But no timers, actions, scripts, nothing.. I'm getting a bit confused what's the point of zigbee mode if it's not like a door sensor. That's my concern with the ikea lights, cause while it may basically work maybe I'm missing some features I'd like to have

wheat pivot
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I think with ZigBee mode, you are expected to write own automation via connected hub (HA in his case) where the device is basically a grunt taking orders with no brains of its own. All you need is turn on and turn off commands in the device and everything else is done by hub

storm frigate
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At least timers it should be able to run (try sending the OnWithTimedOff command from Z2M dev console)

woven citrus