Homeseer SEL Pro and Zigbee

[ksalhoff]

Is there any zigbee interface that will work on the SEL platform? Very disappointing that the Nortek stick is STILL unsupported..

[drhtmal]

A Z-Net will work.

[mikedr]

A Z-Net will work.

I don’t think so.... Z-Net is Z-wave, not Zigbee

[drhtmal]

I don’t think so.... Z-Net is Z-wave, not Zigbee

DUH. My bad.

[Michael McSharry]

zigbee2mqtt uses a TI USB Zigbee interface. I have distributed many of these for $10 and should have some left. It uses the mcsMQTT plugin. The physical device is managed with a nodejs service. I have not explicitly tried it on SEL, but I have on various RPi flavors. I can try on the Hometroller Pi and look to see if I have any more if you are interested.

[Michael McSharry]

I did confirm that I have a USB dongle for Zigbee. I also installed zigbee2mqtt on Hometroller Pi using the instructions at Running Zigbee2MQTT | zigbee2mqtt.io. No issues with install. I installed mcsMQTT from Updater. I went to General tab and changed the Broker from localhost to a blank text box. This started the internal MQTT broker. I then saw the messages from zigbee2mqtt appear on the mcsMQTT Statistics tab.

Bottom line is that zigbee2mqtt works with Hometroller Pi which should be the same as SEL.

[ksalhoff]

The problem with the SEL is the very old version of linux it is running. It does not recognize the device and does not create the necessary /dev entries for it. I fixed mine by upgrading the OS.


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