Hi,
This question might be a little bit off, but not to far off for this forum I hope.
I am considering the nRF52840 Dongle to gain a better understanding of a issue with the earlier versions of Philips Hue system (Zigbee), before it was called Hue.
Philips in 2015 changed the firmware in their Hue Hubs. The newer firmware "Blocks" Philips earlier version of the products from the Hue system. This is described in many threads on the Hue development forums.
e.g. https://developers.meethue.com/content/livingcolors-gen2-almost-working
As I recently bought a Hue Bridge to connect the products to the bridge i found this extremely annoying as I can not understand why the products are behaving the way they are.
My intention is to link the Hue Bridge to my openHABian setup on a Rasberry pi 3 b, but as it can not link the Philips products to the Hue Bridge I am stuck.
So my questions are:
1. Will the nRF52840 Dongle be able to sniff the Zigbee signals in any way? And will it help me if I get the data transferred? I have never worked with Zigbee or other 2.4 protocols.
2. Can it function as a temporary remote, creating a link between the lights and the hue bridge?
3. Can it function as a permanent link between the raspberry pi and the lights?
4. Are there any other smart ways to work around the issue of Philips "blocking" the older Zigbee signals?
This issue has annoyed a number of people according to various forums, so any help in understanding what might fix this would be appreciated. And if it can not be fixed, it would be interesting to know why it doesn't work. I understand that no one can answer to why Philips changed their firmware in the way that they did.
On the technical side the initial link appears to function as the command to the HUE API
{"touchlink": true}
returns
[
{
"success": {
"/config/touchlink": true
}
}
]
And blinking lights, but no permanent link between the lights and the Hue Hub.
Thanks in advance.
