[Zigbee] Future Plans for Zigbee Development in nRF Connect SDK

RE: [Zigbee] Future Plans for Zigbee Development in nRF Connect SDK

Edvin — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:33:23 GMT

No worries 🙂 Just wanted to check that I didn't miss any new questions.

Best regards,

Edvin

RE: [Zigbee] Future Plans for Zigbee Development in nRF Connect SDK

Pawel(embeddedsolutions.pl) — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 07:37:21 GMT

Hello Edwin,

I was going through my tickets and changing tickets titles to be in compliance with other ones.
Didn't mean to bother you.

Regards,

Pawel

RE: [Zigbee] Future Plans for Zigbee Development in nRF Connect SDK

Edvin — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:37:35 GMT

Hello Pawel,

I see that you edited something in this ticket (and a few of your other tickets), but I don't have access to the changelog. If there are any new questions in any of them, please let me know.

Best regards,

Edvin

RE: [ZIGBEE] Future Plans for Zigbee Development in nRF Connect SDK

Pawel(embeddedsolutions.pl) — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 21:42:21 GMT

Thanks Edvin.

I am out of questions ;)

Regards,

Pawel

RE: [ZIGBEE] Future Plans for Zigbee Development in nRF Connect SDK

Edvin — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:36:35 GMT

You can check the experimental release add-on using:

https://github.com/nrfconnect/ncs-zigbee

(sorry, I thought I included that link in one of the previous replies).

The partitions are the same there as it is in today's R22. However, I can't guarantee that it doesn't change when moving out of experimental. However, it would surprise me if it does, as that would make it impossible (at least a bit more difficult) to DFU from R22 to R23.

Best regards,

Edvin

RE: [ZIGBEE] Future Plans for Zigbee Development in nRF Connect SDK

Pawel(embeddedsolutions.pl) — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:10:34 GMT

I got your point.
ZBOSS defines two mandatory partitions for static memory layout zboss_nvram and zboss_product_config.
If their minimum recommended sizes are going to change in the R23 this might break the OTA compatibility.
What do you think about it ?

RE: [ZIGBEE] Future Plans for Zigbee Development in nRF Connect SDK

Edvin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:20:03 GMT

I see no reason why it would not be possible. The bootloader (MCUBOOT) is practically unaware of what application that is running, and the transfer part that is done in Zigbee is not aware of the content of the DFU image that it is receiving.

RE: [ZIGBEE] Future Plans for Zigbee Development in nRF Connect SDK

Pawel(embeddedsolutions.pl) — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:28:14 GMT

Hello Edvin,

Nice to hear from you.

Thank you. You filled up my curiosity.

Do you know, at this point if transition from R22 to R23 will be OTA compatible?

Best regards,

Pawel

RE: [ZIGBEE] Future Plans for Zigbee Development in nRF Connect SDK

Edvin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:23:39 GMT

Hello,

I just wanted to clarify a couple of things, after speaking with our Zigbee team.

If you build a Zigbee sample in NCS v2.9.0 or earlier, it will use the R22. You can use this for the nRF52 and 53 series. However, in future releases, the Zigbee stack and samples will be removed from the SDK, and it will be available as an add-on.

Today, there is an existing add-on, that is compatible with NCS v2.9.0, and it contains the experimental R23 stack. Later, at some point, there will be added support for nRF52840 as well. The R22 add-on will be kept as well, but only in maintenance mode, meaning no new features will be added to this, but severe bugs will be patched.

Best regards,

Edvin

RE: [ZIGBEE] Future Plans for Zigbee Development in nRF Connect SDK

Edvin — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:06:44 GMT

Hello,

The R22 for nRF52 and nRF53 will not be deprecated, but it will be put in maintenance mode. Right now, you can use it as you have done before, but in the future there will be some changes. I believe they will pull it out of the "normal" NCS, and add it as an addon, but I believe this is not yet ready.

For timelines regarding this, please reach out to our Sales Team (from the link in Kenneth's reply).

Best regards,

Edvin

RE: [ZIGBEE] Future Plans for Zigbee Development in nRF Connect SDK

Pawel(embeddedsolutions.pl) — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 08:32:39 GMT

Hi Kenneth,

Thank you.

Could you also provide some details about issue with pulling the NCS-ZIGBEE-R22 repository?
Do I need to pull it anyway, or should I continue using the older Zigbee approach for now?

RE: [ZIGBEE] Future Plans for Zigbee Development in nRF Connect SDK

Kenneth — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:09:26 GMT

Hello,

For roadmap related questions, please reach out to our sales team (use sales related questions here):-
https://www.nordicsemi.com/About-us/Contact-Us

Kenneth