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Documenting the Ninja Sphere, one component at a time
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Zigbee #4

Open Vertikar opened 9 years ago

Vertikar commented 9 years ago

I'd like to get my smartthings sensors working and be able to debug them a bit better than currently. After this conversation with Elliot: https://github.com/ninjasphere/driver-go-zigbee/issues/4#issuecomment-102022924

And reading this within the driver-go-zigbee readme: https://github.com/ninjasphere/driver-go-zigbee The version of the gateway that runs on the Sphere is not able to be released in source form due to a NDA, but it should work just fine with the TI binary release from http://www.ti.com/tool/z-stack using a CC2531 USB dongle on other platforms.

I went and ordered the above dongle and am going to have a play around once I get it on the block, and maybe a spheramid running in Snappy. I'm close to getting the sphere software into a VM and nearly got Snappy onto the block as well, so will add some documentation about that when I get a chance.

Grayda commented 9 years ago

Just to clarify, you mean we can run that TI binary on the Sphere, and the same binary on other platforms as long as we have the CC2531?

What was the cost for the dongle, out of curiosity? This info would be good to have in a "building your own Sphere" section where people could take a Pi / Beaglebone / PC / Mac / whatever and have a near-Sphere experience.

Vertikar commented 9 years ago

That seems to be the case, based on the comments. Either way having the dongle is useful as you can do Zigbee sniffing with it, which is another very handy option right now.

It was 56USD including shipping to AUS, turned out the TI store was the cheapest option. https://store.ti.com/CC2531EMK-CC2531-Evaluation-Module-Kit-P1753.aspx I was hoping you'd suggest something like that, wanted to share it with you guys as I couldn't think of where else to put it under.

On 18 May 2015 at 21:54, David Gray notifications@github.com wrote:

Just to clarify, you mean we can run that TI binary on the Sphere, and the same binary on other platforms as long as we have the CC2531?

What was the cost for the dongle, out of curiosity? This info would be good to have in a "building your own Sphere" section where people could take a Pi / Beaglebone / PC / Mac / whatever and have a near-Sphere experience.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Grayda/sphere-documentation/issues/4#issuecomment-103034353 .

Vertikar commented 9 years ago

Got the dongle! Looks like I'll probably need to heatshrink it to avoid damaging it, but hoping to have a play with it over the weekend. If I can get a sphere running in under a VM, Snappy, Docker or a Block I'll see if I can get it to talk to the driver as well. Looks like it may need to be flashed to talk to the Z-Stack binaries though, out of the box seems to be setup for a Zigbee sniffer