Join Non-NRF Network?

[JVKran]

Hi there!

I wanted to do a little side project that's something completely different than BLE Mesh (which I do for work). I decided Zigbee would be fun. Even more so because I'm running Home Assistant with ZHA (Zigbee Home Automation) and the Sonoff Zigbee Bridge. Now, I know this is not neccesarily something usefull to know, but I was wondering wether or not it would be possible to create a multisensor (for example the freertos-multisensor example) that's able to connect to the network.

I poked around a bit and got the example running in 'no-time'. Then I tried to pair it. They're both (ZHA and the nRF52840) set at channel 15, so that should be fine. Unfortunately, it wasn't. I got a lot of ``` Network steering was not successful (status: -1)``` messages. Then I tried to pair it using the IEEE code. Unfortunatly that didn't work out either (the same message occured). Then I thought it might had to do something with the Install-Code (since that was another option to provide). I couldn't find that code anywhere though.

But is this even possible? Or does the bridge have to run ZBOSS too?

Kind regards,

Jochem

[Øyvind]

Hi Joachem, 

What version of the nRF SDK for Zigbee and Thread are  you using in you project?

Network steering was not successful means that the device was unable to join a network, given with a generic error code -1.

Kind regards,
Øyvind

[JVKran]

Hi Øyvind,

I was able to do some more testing and found out that the light_bulb example works perfectly fine once I comment the following lines.

zb_set_network_router_role(IEEE_CHANNEL_MASK);
zb_set_max_children(MAX_CHILDREN);

It then succeeds to connect without any kind of problems. However, commenting the line underneath in the experimental freertos multisensor example, doesn't result in a succesful pairing.

zb_set_network_ed_role(IEEE_CHANNEL_MASK);

What would be a logical reason behind this?

Kind regards,

Jochem