Livolo zigbee switch

[JDRoberts]

@roumano

Hi,

Livolo Zigbee switch is flag as supported_devices in zigbee : | Zigbee2MQTT

Device information : Livolo TI0001 control via MQTT | Zigbee2MQTT
More information : Attempt to pair Livolo Zigbee switch · Issue #592 · Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt · GitHub

Do you think we can use them via the SmarThings box ? if yes, how ?

You need to read the posts at the link you provided more carefully.

First, it says it is a “work in progress” meaning it’s working a little bit for some people, but not for everyone and there are many issues.

Then if you follow the “work in progress” link, you will come to the following page where people are discussing it.

(And remember that all of this is in the context of getting it to work with MQTT, not getting it to work with SmartThings.)

So when we get to the discussion page, we find the following issues.

Attempt to pair Livolo Zigbee switch

1. This switch seems to work on channel 26 only.

Since you cannot change the zigbee channel that your smartthings hub operates on, It’s unlikely that you will be able to use the switch at all.

But if you can get a smartthings hub on zigbee channel 26, there are still multiple additional issues.

2. there are four different models of the switch, and they have different behavior. So the exact model that you get is going to make a big difference.

3. most importantly, this device is not using the same zigbee profile that smartthings uses. That is allowed under the zigbee standard: manufacturers can have a proprietary profile if they want, which is what the Livolo switch appears to use. That means it is likely to only work well with its own gateway.

A major issue, which you can tell from reading the comments, is that while the zigbee profile that smartthings and most Home automation hubs use, “Zigbee home automation (ZHA 1.2)”, expects a zigbee device to do a “re-join” after it is powered off and then powered on again, the livolo device attempts to do a “join.“ That messes everything up in terms of working with SmartThings.

So I do not think you are going to be able to get this particular switch to work with SmartThings.

Here is the community FAQ on zigbee profiles and why they matter. (The topic title is a clickable link)

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…

We are seeing more and more inexpensive zigbee devices come on the market because of the popularity of the Amazon echo plus. Look for ones which use the Zigbee “ZHA 1.2” profile or the “zigbee 3.0” profile and which also work with the Amazon echo plus, and you will have a much better chance of getting them to work with SmartThings.