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ZigStar LAN/Wifi/POE Gateways
https://zig-star.com
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[SUGGESTION] RTC (Real-Time-Clock) and a clock-battery + a buzzer and RGB LED to the PCB board? #17

Closed Hedda closed 1 year ago

Hedda commented 2 years ago

Maybe consider adding an RTC (Real-Time-Clock) and a clock-battery + a buzzer and tri-color RGB LED or LEDs if it would not add to much cost to ZigStar gateways as products.

That way they could it would not only be a Zigbee Coordinator bridge or Zigbee Router but the ESPHome part could also serve multiple other purposes like for example an alarm-clock or doorbell-chime/buzzer with flashing lights in seperate colors to show/give status alerts for different things. See example these :

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5125

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5126

I read that the new “ITead SONOFF Zigbee Bridge Pro” in addition to having some kind of a "buzzer" so that it can be used as an alarm or a doorbell chime, and this new "Pro" variant also feature an onboard RTC (Real-Time-Clock) to keep time while offline-> https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/discussions/14419

With both ESP32 and an RTC it would make it very suitable as a Zigbee2Tasmota gateway -> https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Zigbee/

Zigbee2Tasmota on an ESP32 based gateway RTC (Real-Time-Clock) and clock-battery could be used as a stand-alone offline gateway/hub to keep schemas and schedules for "Wake Up Alarm Clock" even when the internet goes down and it reboot, like when there is power blackout.

mercenaruss commented 1 year ago

@Hedda unfortunately this is not the purpose for this devices. I will think about this in future device releases.