Hi, You may know me from my work that I’ve done with my MiLight Controller . I’m back at the Chinese HA products again, this time with a Zigbee device. The ultimate goal is to publish a device type that everyone can use. So, first thing first – is there a way to view all the Zigbee data being “rea…

When you pair the device you should see a zbjoin event that has all the relevant information: [image] If you can’t even get it to pair I’d start there. Is it ZigBee HA 1.2?

I haven’t had success pairing it, yet. I’m not sure how to pair a device that ST doesn’t even have a device for. Ideally I would like to choose just a generic “zigbee device” and then grab its data that way.

Pairing happens before we assign a Device Type Handler. If you pair a ZigBee device that doesn’t have a system fingerprint it’ll pair as a “Thing” of type “Unknown”. This way you can inspect the zbjoin event and modify your Device Type Handler appropriately. So - step 1 is to get the device to pair…

I’ll give that a shot. Here’s a screenshot from the hub events list when I attempt to do the “pair” http://imgur.com/A4yjpWL

That’s unrelated. You should see: an “include search” event showing that your hub is looking for devices a “zbjoin” event with all of the information about your ZigBee device potentially a “Thing added” and “Thing updated” event If you aren’t seeing #1, your hub isn’t going into pairing mode. I…

Alright @Tyler , thanks. I did manage to pair this sucker up. I’m not sure how I did it, but that’s for another thread. I didn’t see the zbjoin event, but I did get this. [image] Should I try and re-pair?

No - if you go to the Devices view you should see a Thing now. All the information should be on that page.

Sorry to keep chain posting, I’ll eventually figure this out. Just need a nudge. [image]

Once you do get it paired, you can get started on the next steps. As it happens, this exact topic, onboarding a new zigbee device, was covered in a session at this year’s Samsung developers conference. That session is available on YouTube if it’s of any help. [ - YouTube] My favorite e…

Thanks @JDRoberts , this thread is a gold mine.

Reverse engineering a Zigbee device

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