Local On/Off Switch for Extractor Fan? (UK) (Prefer zigbee if available, but local Zwave is OK)

[JDRoberts]

As far as zigbee goes, the first question is what zigbee profile is it using.

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…

That particular switch is using zigbee 3.0, which normally is fine with ST, but if it requires “touch link commissioning,” you won’t be able to join a smartthings as the hub does not support that method for adding devices. However, you might be able to add it to a Hue bridge and then get smart things integration that way.

All of the above would be true if it was just a simple on/off switch. There is an additional problem because the particular device you linked to is a three channel device, and SmartThings does not support all of the features of zigbee multi endpoint devices, even if they are using the right profile.

So it might work, it might not, and it might require custom code. The device you linked to is really much more than just a simple on/off binary Switch.