Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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simple zigbee control with esp32? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone.
I bought a zigbee smart plug and i would like to control it without Home assistant or anything special.
I found a blog post, just what i need, but the code is hard to understand for me( i'm a programmer, but i'm lost in the zigbee protocoll). As far as i know i need a special firmware for the CC2530 module, or not?
Can someone guide me to the right direction?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Install zigbee2mqtt in docker then. Zigbee doesn’t use WiFi so you need special code to control it. Seems like you may have bought something without understanding what you were getting. You’re probably better off with a tplink WiFi plug or Bluetooth or something. Or buy an Alexa with zigbee built in and just use that.

If that doesn’t answer your question, maybe give us some more info on your end goal and we can try to help.