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2 years ago @pipiche38 Best might be if you yourself send an e-mail to "Nikita Selednikov" sne@elelabs.com (a.k.a. @NilsBohr on GitHub who is Product Manager at Elelabs) and summerize "Zigbee for Domoticz" plugin and the idea of supporting Silicon Labs EZSP adapters via bellows and zigpy libraries (plus add your fellow plugin developers to copy on that e-mail). Alternatively, send an e-mail to info@elelabs.com as per https://elelabs.com/#contacts
FYI, Elelabs currently sell Silicon Labs EFR32MG13 based Zigbee USB Adapter (ELU013) and Zigbee Raspberry Pi Shield (ELR023), however, I read that they are working on product refreshes of updated variants based on the newer EFR32MG21 and EFR32MG24 (depends on Silabs supply chain I guess). Note that they sold Zigbee adapters for many years and have done such refreshes to newer and newer Silabs chips in the past which can be slightly confusing since they change SKU/article-ID but not the actual title of the products.
https://elelabs.com/products/elelabs-usb-adapter.html
https://elelabs.com/products/elelabs-zigbee-shield.html
Note that is generally recommended to upgrade the EmberZNet NCP firmware before starting to use these (and other adapters).
I would also suggest that to make it easy you choose to start by officially only supporting EZSP v8 via EmberZNet 6.7.9 or later.
https://github.com/Elelabs/elelabs-zigbee-ezsp-utility
PS: German electronics maker Popp & Co (acquired by Aeotec in 2018) also sell OEM versions under their POPP brand in Europe:
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NilsBohr
@NilsBohr (Nikita Selednikov) Can I suggest that you (and @Elelabs ) try to reach out to @pipiche38 (Patrick Pichon) and his fellow developers about possible collaborating and teaming up to add compatibility for your Elelabs Zigbee USB Adapter and Elelabs Zigbee Raspberry Pi Shield together with the new Zigbee for Domoticz Plugin implementation for Domoticz that they are developing using zigpy and the bellows libraries to add compatibility with Zigbee Coordinators from different manufacturers?
You can read more back-story here -> https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy/discussions/865
Their new zigpy-based implementation was just merged into their "beta6" branch of their "Zigbee for Domoticz" plugin project as they have so far added support the zigpy radio library for Texas Instruments and is now thinking about also adding Silicon Labs EZSP (EmberZNet Serial Protocol) support via the bellows radio library which is already used in by both Home Assistant's ZHA integration and Jeedom's Zigbee plugin implementations:
https://github.com/zigbeefordomoticz/Domoticz-Zigbee/tree/beta6
https://github.com/zigbeefordomoticz/wiki/blob/master/en-eng/Home.md
https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/ZigbeeForDomoticz
If Elelabs @NilsBohr could help sponsor them with hardware by donating a few of your Elelabs Zigbee USB Adapters and Elelabs Zigbee Raspberry Pi Shields to @pipiche38, @badzz @SylvainPer and @jp-keros then maybe they could prioritize adding and testing bellows radio library in order to support many different Silabs Zigbee NCP adapters via EZSP (EmberZNet Serial Protocol). Perhaps they can mention that they use Elelabs adapters as reference adapters for Silicon Labs EZSP compatibility. No strings attached of course as these are still hobby projects at their core with only a few developers volunteering on that project so far.
Support for zigpy based radio libraries "Zigbee for Domoticz Plugin" for Domoticz is still in a very early stage, but those guys have long been developing a previous "ZiGate Plugin for Domoticz" for Domoticz, (with Domoticz itself also being a popular free and open-source DIY home automation software). So at least you know that these guys already have the experience, skills, and personal interest to develop good Zigbee plugins for Domoticz.
Again, as I understand it, zigpy, bellows, Domoticz, and this new "Zigbee for Domoticz Plugin" are all only spare-time hobby projects but still, I think that teaming up might give all involved projects some positive recognition in the Domoticz community and the whole home automation scene in general which might attract more developers and willing alpha/beta-testers from the community to come to help out with all these involved projects which in the long run could benefit all users wanting Zigbee in Domoticz to become more mature and working with more Zigbee hardware dongles than it is today.