ZigBee sending and receiving string.

RE: ZigBee sending and receiving string.

Priyanka — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:50:25 GMT

Hi,

As a beginner, you could try referring to the CLI example in the SDK\examples\zigbee\experimental\cli\cli_agent_router. The test description is also available. Unfortunately, this is not available in the nRF Connect SDK as of now and you could use the nrf5 SDK.

There is also the Multi-Sensor example which can help in sending and receiving data.

Zigbee networks are generally private and it's open only for a few minutes and then in order to add new nodes later, you need to open it again.

I would suggest you to begin with the CLI example and you can test how this behaves and learn more.

Regards,

Priyanka

RE: ZigBee sending and receiving string.

psychogenic — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 02:28:33 GMT

Oh, and of course there's the Nordic-specific zboss api docs, but I haven't found it all that helpful--it's both a bit overwhelming and then lacking details where you need them (e.g. zb_set_channel_mask() has a single example, no details about whether the params are channel numbers or standard 16 bit mask, where bit two is channel 11 or whatever, that example calls zb_set_channel() which doesn't exist and it doesn't tell you when this needs to be set other than the fact it's in the "before start" section, and finally that thing did nothing for me when I tried it...). Oh, the joys of generated documentation.

Still, probably a pretty good place to start if you're building on nRF.

RE: ZigBee sending and receiving string.

psychogenic — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 02:15:23 GMT

Hi, just getting started with zigbee myself and can't answer directly. However, a few resources that I've been leaning on to get going are:

The zboss source (behind one of those annoying create-an-account-to-download things, but open/free) has a bunch of stuff under tests/ that might be useful (e.g. tests/zdo_start_secur/)
Search for zigbee document 05-3520 (home automation public application profile), it gives a lot of info on how zigbee works and how nodes are supposed to behave.

If you find better, would love to know.

Good luck,