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[REQUEST] Alpha and/or Beta release versions of latest EmberZNet 7.1.x (7.1.x.x) Zigbee Coordinator NCP firmware images for testers to test on Sonoff ZBDongle-E #13

Open Hedda opened 1 year ago

Hedda commented 1 year ago

@Daniel-zhan-itead Suggest that ITead consider providing publicly available "official" Alpha and/or Beta versions of Silicon Labs EmberZNet NCP 7.1.x (7.1.x.x) Zigbee Coordinator NCP firmware image builds for Sonoff ZBDongle-E adapters here for developers of various Zigbee gateway solutions and volunteering alpha/beta testers to test the new EZSP v9 (EmberZNet Serial Protocol version 9) interface as well as upstream bug-fixes that comes in the latest Silicon Labs Gecko SDK Suite 4.1 (GSDK. 4.1.x.x) release.

https://github.com/SiliconLabs/gecko_sdk/releases

Note! To clarify, EmberZNet 7.1.x.x is probably not ready for general use yet but great if firmware images were available to test for issues. That is, it would be great if both developers/testers could have access to Zigbee EmberZNet 7.1.x.x NCP images for development/testing.

https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/release-notes/emberznet-release-notes-7.1.4.0.pdf

Zigbee EmberZNet SDK 7.1.3.0 GA release notes cover SDK version(s):

FYI, there are already "unofficial" Zigbee EmberZNet 7.1.x NCP firmware builds from a couple of community members that a few people have been testing on ZBDongle-E in some different Zigbee implementations to test EZSP v9 interface in these newer firmware versions:

-https://github.com/xsp1989/zigbeeFirmware/tree/master/firmware/Zigbee3.0_Dongle-NoSigned/EZSP

That is, users of Home Assistant's ZHA integration, the Zigbee Plugin for Domoticz, as well as Zigbee2MQTT and IoBroker have been testing those unofficial firmware builds the new EZSP v9 interface using different Zigbee EmberZNet 7.1.1 builds on ITead's EFR32MG21-based “Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus V2” (model " ZBDongle-E").

https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman/issues/319

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha

https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/ZigbeeForDomoticz

https://doc.jeedom.com/en_US/plugins/automation%20protocol/zigbee/

PS: OpenHAB ZigBee Binding dependecies is still missing support for EZSP v9 -> https://github.com/openhab/org.openhab.binding.zigbee/issues/778

Hedda commented 1 year ago

Note! Also be noted that you need to enable Touchlink (touchlinking) support in Zigbee Coordinator NCP firmware image -> https://github.com/itead/Sonoff_Zigbee_Dongle_Firmware/issues/6

Hedda commented 1 year ago

FYI, Silicon Labs Gecko SDK (GSDK) Version 4.1.4.0 includes Zigbee EmberZNet SDK 7.1.4.0 bug-fix release for 7.1.x / 7.1.x.x

https://github.com/SiliconLabs/gecko_sdk/releases/tag/v4.1.4

https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/release-notes/emberznet-release-notes-7.1.4.0.pdf

Update: Silicon Labs Gecko SDK (GSDK) Version 4.2.x includes Zigbee EmberZNet SDK 7.2 and bug-fix release for 7.2.x / 7.2.x.x

https://github.com/SiliconLabs/gecko_sdk/releases/tag/v4.2.2

https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/release-notes/emberznet-release-notes-7.2.2.0.pdf

Hedda commented 1 year ago

FYI, many (or most) but not all popular open-source DIY home-automation projects have now been updated to support EZSP v11.

zigbee-herdsman is not lagging far behind as has already been updated to EZSP v11:

The one large project that was lagging behind those others is OpenHAB but its dependencies were at least updated to EZSP v11 last month:

PS: The only well-known open-source project in the DIY home-automation community that is lagging behind those is Zigbee2Tasmota (Zigbee to Tastmota) project and that is only because Tasmota lead Zigbee developer is currently fully focusing on getting initial support working for the new Matter standard in Tasmota, (which in turn might later also lead to a wish for him wanting to add Thread / OpenThread radio support in Tasmota in order to support Matter over Thread with native Thread Border Router / OpenThread Border Router firmware).