Den available for pre-order today

[JDRoberts]

@marktheknife

Not a ton of technical information on the website.

Some zigbee products use proprietary versions of the protocol so that they are locked down to a particular hub. Guess we’ll see.

Den originally said they were using a proprietary protocol which will not work with SmartThings.

FAQ: Zigbee Application Profiles, or why not all zigbee devices work with SmartThings

Zigbee is always zigbee, but the standard allows for different "profiles,"including manufacturer proprietary ones. [image] These are not all able to communicate with each other, they don’t even use the same addressing schemes. SmartThings uses the Zigbee Home Automation profile (ZHA 1.2) and part of the Zigbee 3.0 profile. Devices using other zigbee profiles may be able to join to the network, but their communications may not be understood, or they may frequently drop off because they don’t receive a handshake message they are expecting. There a lot of different ways to explain this, but I think one of the easiest is to think of zigbee as a post office and the different profiles as different languages. The outside envelope for different messages may look similar, have a specific format…

There was one email from a support person who said they were using zigbee 3.0, but they are not listed under the certified devices on the official website, so I think we will just have to wait and see.