Packet structure send and receive via uart zigbee NCP

[ashegheparyshun]

Hi,

I'm trying to take advantage of nRF52840 as Zigbee NCP in communicate with a host microcontroller via UART. My problem is I don't know what I have to send and what will get.

For example, Texas Instruments has a graphic user interface application for PC called ZTool, using this application you can communicate with for example cc26x2 launchpad over UART and send network formation command, and receive the result. It also has a document about it's packet structure, for example, there is a start byte followed by command type, command, etc.

I'm looking for this packet structure.

TNX

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

Unfortunately, there is no documentation of the packet structure or commands for the NCP available publicly. You need to use the ZBOSS NCP Host package to create the application to communicate with the NCP SoC.

Best regards,
Jørgen

[ashegheparyshun]

Does it mean it is impossible to use nRF50840 as a Zigbee NCP with a host microcontroller?

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

According to our developers, it should be possible to build the NCP Host package for any Linux Host MCU. 

Do you have a specific MCU in mind that you want to use?

[ashegheparyshun]

Yes, ESP32 from Espressif.

[ashegheparyshun]

Any update?

As Zephyr is a Linux based operating system, can I use NCP library if I run Zephyr on ESP32?