Any tips on using Nerves and a Zigbee gateway?

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Hi everyone!

I currently have a Raspberry Pi 3B running Nerves, and it’s communicating with some smart switches over WiFi, which works great. Now, I’m thinking about switching to Zigbee devices and I know I’ll need a Zigbee gateway for that.

Has anyone here used a Zigbee dongle with Nerves? How does it work for you?

This is what I have in mind:

SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus Gateway

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Any tips or recommendations would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance! :blush:

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Haven’t seen anything specific. This looks like it would do some of the basics: GitHub - jonathanhockman/ex_zigbee: An Elixir Library to communicate using a serial connected ZigBee device

If bringing up something new I usually look at how a similarly high-level language does it. I come from Python, so zigpy maybe? That will usually tell me if I need to go off into native code and so on.

I think you need your Nerves system to include cp210x which I think would go in the linux defconfig. So check the custom system docs for how to build that in?

This is all sketchwork but hope it helps.

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Awesome! thank you for the tips!