RE: Zigbee CLI ZCL generic commands

Marjeris Romero — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:25:16 GMT

No problem, I am happy to help. Feel free to open a new Devzone ticket if you have any other questions. Good luck with your Zigbee development! 🙂

RE: Zigbee CLI ZCL generic commands

DaKa — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:24:14 GMT

Hi,

Thank you for the answer. I am new in Zigbee and it is a bit confusing coming from ZWave development. I thought that there might be a chance that it can work since ZDO has the profile id 0x0000 and IEEE address request uses cluster id 0x0001.
Anyways, that is not going to work...

Best regards,
Damien

RE: Zigbee CLI ZCL generic commands

Marjeris Romero — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 14:36:45 GMT

Hi,

Short answer is no. For starters ZDO and ZCL are different modules in the Zigbee application layer. ZDO is application running on endpoint 0 and manages Zigbee device on the network: controls joining/leaving the network, discovering/maintaining devices at the network. ZCL is a set of clusters and cluster commands based on which application can be developed and there may multiple applications using ZCL on endpoint 1-240.

The "zcl cmd" command in the CLI example is ment for sending cluster-specific commands, where command ID and payload are specified by the Zigbee Cluster Specification.

The Zigbee Base Device Behaviour specification says the following about cluster commands:

"Application transaction:
An application (or functional) transaction is a cluster command, and possible response, that is generated to perform the device’s persistent function, such as attribute reporting (e.g. reporting a sensor’s measured value) or actuation commands (e.g. On, Off, Toggle, etc.). An application transaction is not a ZDO transaction, one-time transaction, or commissioning transaction."

ZDO transactions as for example IEEE address discovery is called "ZDO discovery service commands".

For ZDO service and discovery requests please see the ZDO API on the infocenter.

Best regards,

Marjeris