I believe there is a great future for self powered devices. No more batteries. I found EnOcean manufacturing self powered Zigbee devices with Hue support. Niko for example is using the EnOcean device in their switch.
The EnOcean device used by Niko is the PTM 216Z. The user manual is downloadable using the link above. I tried to use and connect this switch but I can’t get it connected and as such it stops me to continue working on this device. Where and what is going wrong?
True. To control and automate you would need the dev branch of zigbee-herdsman as soon as this PR is merged, but a CC2653R1 with ZStack 3 is able to talk Green Power on a stack level.
Two questions, you mention the CC2653R1, I’ve got the CC2652R1 with ZStack3x0 version 1.7.1 Dev. I did not know about the CC2653R1 will the CC2652R1 be supported?
Do you have any idea when I can expect green power support?
Sorry, that was a typo. I have the same board and stack as you.
When the Green Power PR is merged is entirely up to the maintainers. Hopefully soon so I can buy some batteryless devices and test it. I’ve loved that technology since seeing some Enocean devices years ago.
@Koenkk I would like to write the code for supporting Enocean self powered switches. But I need some help to get started. First of all I thought it must be possible to link the self-powered switch with my pi and zigbee2mqtt (version: 1.11.0-dev, commit: dc8b6c5) with permit_join=true, debug=enabled, channel=11. Unfortunately nothing… I cannot commission my Enocean switches at all, whatever I try. Please Koen, have a look at the manual in the download link below and let me know how to commence. Maybe it is not possible at all. I am sure many others would be very pleased with support for self-powered Enocean devices. The manual has been updated yesterday.
With Version 1.13 Green-Power Support is now shipped
@Koenkk in the documentation https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/GreenPower_7.html is written, that a “Philips Hue” Device is needed to make the translation for GreenPower Devices. As at the moment I do not own any Philips Hue device: is it sufficent just to buy one “Philips Hue Bulb” that will be then integrated in the network to do the translation or is there a specific Philips Hue device needet (Bridge etc)? Do you know what range such a Philips-Bub could cover +/-?
Just for documentation:
I bought as Josov suggested one Hue Bulp. After factory resetting the philips hue bulp via touchlink (https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/information/touchlink) (i had to do this 3 times till the bulp paired itsef with the network), I was also able to connect the PTM 216. It works great thanks a lot for all the work behind!!
thanks a lot for all the work behind!!