Arduino Shield Suggestions?

[JohnR (John Rucker)]

I would like to see you incorporate a Parallax Propeller processor right onto the board with the Ember ZigBee radio and publish a standard ZigBee HA library to communicate with the hub (No proprietary stuff like you do now). Make it a standalone device no Arduino or BeagleBone required. This would be a dream platform for developers! With the power of the 8 core propeller, 32 I/O pins, and ZigBee C library this thing would rock!! Oh and do it for $15 A guy can dream cant he!

Seriously this is very doable! Here is a post where an XBee (an XBee is simply a freescale processor and an Ember radio) is driven by a propeller and a standard ZigBee HA Library written in SPIN. There is even a custom SmartThings device type that talks to the propeller on the Parallax site!

I would love to get rid of the XBee and have the Propeller and Ember radio all in one small affordable package!!

Creating a standard ZigBee device with a Parallax Propeller

In case anyone is interested here is a post on how to communicate with SmartThings using a Propeller. The propeller driver is this post uses standard ZigBee Home Automation device types and clusters to communicate with the SmartThings ZigBee radio. It can be the foundation any type of build your own hardware and is based on ZigBee Home Automation standards. http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/157233-Propeller-to-SmartThings-(communicating-with-the-ZigBee-HA-public-profile)?p=1291123#post1291123 Sorry about the ugly URL Parallax’s Propeller is an 8 Core 32-bit RISC based processor with 32 I/O lines. I have created several commercial devices with it over the years and recently just released my communications library to the propeller community in the above URL.

Parallax is in Roclkin CA and they just released the Propeller to Open Source. I bet they would be happy to help you put this together!!