Request: Implement use of Zigpy to support Zigbee USB dongles from multiple manufacturers

[Gamester17]

Would it be a good idea for the Zigbee2mqtt project to also implement support for using the Zigpy library to communicate with all Zigbee USB dongles (as well as GPIO adapters) that it supports?

https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy

Zigpy (Zigbee for Python) is an open-source library that currently can communicate with the more than one Zigbee dongle, meaning it support multiple manufacturers using different APIs via modules, such as XBee based devices, EmberZNet based devices by Silicon Labs, Conbee/RaspBee by Dresden-Elektronik, ZiGate by fairecasoimeme, and even Z-Stack by Texas Instrument

It does this by depending on several Python modules which in turn each communicates directly with different USB radios native serial protocol (UART) for zigpy. For more on those modules see:

https://github.com/zigpy/bellows
https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy-znp
https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy-deconz
https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy-xbee
https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy-cc
https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy-zigate

PS: By the way, the zigpy project also has a quirks library called ZHA Device Handlers that are similar to Zigbee-Shepherd Converters

https://github.com/zigpy/zha-device-handlers

[Koenkk]

The underlying library does not support this because this module is not Z-Stack based.

Adding support for this would require a complete refactor of the [zigbee-shepherd] library and it's underlying libraries (https://github.com/koenkk/zigbee-shepherd) library.

This is not within the scope of zigbee2mqtt and therefore I close it.

[BuhtigithuB]

Hi,

Would it be possible to implemented it at zigbee-shepherd level??

[Gamester17]

@BuhtigithuB Zigbee2mqtt has migrated to zigbee-herdsman instead of zigbee-shepherd, see:

Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman#150