Serial pass-through on PCA10059 (nRF58240) dongle

RE: Serial pass-through on PCA10059 (nRF58240) dongle

Marte Myrvold — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:44:26 GMT

Hi,

I have taken over your case, but I see that you have multiple cases with similar issue. Are your other cases related to this, and do you still need help with this issue?

I see you write that you are using the firmware that was shipped with the Dongle, but I also see you have other cases where you mention using the CLI Agent example, so I assume that is what you are using currently. Handling of incoming packets is handled internally by the Zigbee stack in our SDK. If you want to handle incoming packets differently, or to perform additional tasks when receiving a packet, then you will have to override the default handling and create a custom handler. This is what is done in the CLI Agent example. Please see our documentation for more information about how to do this yourself: Configuring default ZCL command handler override. You can also look at the Zigbee CLI library files to see examples of how it is done there. These can be found in <SDK_ROOT>/components/zigbee/cli.

Best regards,

Marte

RE: Serial pass-through on PCA10059 (nRF58240) dongle

ovrebekk — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 07:34:04 GMT

I will have to wait for my colleagues with more Zigbee experience to get back next week, and get some help with this.

Sorry for the delay.

Best regards
Torbjørn

RE: Serial pass-through on PCA10059 (nRF58240) dongle

roaspey — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:11:35 GMT

I have enabled reporting as follows:

bdb start

bdb legacy enable

log enable info app

log enable info zigbee.report

No don't see any frames arriving from XCTU which are verified as going over the air with my sniffer

If I was sending data from an XBee on cluster address 11, SE=E8, DE=E8 in transparent (or API mode) is there a CLI command to read the buffered message back to CLI ?

The back end code is written in Python and sends the data to Azure, I just want to check the messages from our device are arriving.

I think it may use the zdo command ? Too much to do to read 5000 pages of documentation, I just want to know how to read messages that I see going over air to 16 bit address 0x0000 on the same network, that is the ZC receiving data from my XBee device.

RE: Serial pass-through on PCA10059 (nRF58240) dongle

ovrebekk — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:13:19 GMT

Hi again

A suggestion from one of my colleagues was to run the following command:

log enable info zigbee.report

Can you give this a go and see if you can see the incoming messages?

Best regards
Torbjørn

RE: Serial pass-through on PCA10059 (nRF58240) dongle

ovrebekk — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 14:59:26 GMT

I assume the dongle responds appropriately to the commands you send in the terminal?

Are you addressing the data sent directly to the dongle?

Have you tried to ping it to see if there is any response?

I have sent a request to the Zigbee team if there is anything in particular you need to do to print incoming messages to the CLI terminal.

Do you happen to have an nRF52840DK as well to test with?
It is highly recommended to get a DK if you need to make any changes to the standard examples.

Best regards
Torbjørn

RE: Serial pass-through on PCA10059 (nRF58240) dongle

roaspey — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:16:53 GMT

It has not been programmed with anything. It is simply as it was received and I tell it to be a zc

usin:

bdb role zc

bdb start

The company we are working with said it only has the firmware it is shipped with.

Is there an example you recommend that will allow serial data to pass out onto a terminal

for processing e.g. with python etc.?

RE: Serial pass-through on PCA10059 (nRF58240) dongle

ovrebekk — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:13:25 GMT

I am not sure what you mean regarding "stock firmware". The PCA10059 dongle is not made only for Zigbee, and out of the box it is only delivered with a USB bootloader in order to allow you to flash it with whatever application you want to run on it.

Can you confirm which SDK example you have flashed into the dongle, and which version of the SDK you are using?

Best regards
Torbjørn

RE: Serial pass-through on PCA10059 (nRF58240) dongle

roaspey — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 11:47:08 GMT

I am running the stock firmware on PCA10059 (USB Dongle) and activate ZC via the following:

bdb role zc

bdb start

RE: Serial pass-through on PCA10059 (nRF58240) dongle

ovrebekk — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 11:37:46 GMT

Which Zigbee example are you running on the nRF52840 dongle?

Best regards
Torbjørn