Zigbee development

[IanAber]

I am looking to develop a number of Zigbee compatible devices for home automation. Can you tell me if the nRF52840DK and dongle (no debugging using the dongle I understand) can be used with Eclipse and GCC to develop and debug Zigbee device applications such as switches and LED dimmers using the Zigbee library you supply that will then be Zigbee HA compatible and work with Samsung Smartthings?

Thanks.

[haakonsh]

Hey Ian,

From nRF5 SDK for Thread and Zigbee v2.0.0, Introduction:

The nRF52840 running the Zigbee stack conforms to Zigbee PRO R21 + Green Power Proxy specifications. The Zigbee stack provided by the release has been successfully tested in Zigbee Alliance Authorized Test Laboratory and has received formal approval from Zigbee Alliance as a Zigbee Compliant Platform. 
The Nordic Zigbee software solution released as part of nRF5 SDK for Thread and Zigbee incorporates the Base Device Behavior 
specification and the latest of the ZCL specification (ver. 7). This enables to build, certify, and ship commercial Zigbee 3.0 Certified Products. 

We do not have any support for Eclipse but you're free to use that IDE if you want. Whether the Samsung Smartthings is compatible with R21 and the HA specs is unknown to me, that is up to Samsung to confirm. 

Cheers,

Håkon.