Zigbee DTH that runs locally to handle 2 color grow lights?

[JDRoberts]

Smartthings doesn’t care about chipsets. It cares about network protocols.

As long as your device is using the zigbee home automation profile for a simple RGBW light control, you should be fine. If using the ZLL profile, you’ll probably be OK, but there are a few exceptions. ( no touchlink commissioning or groupcasting, for example) If using zigbee 3.0, that’s brand new for smartthings, and I don’t know how well it’s working yet. Avoid multiple endpoints in all profiles, they typically require custom code.

For example, the Sylvania smart+ bulb Would be a good candidate for a ZHA example, and the IKEA Tradfri bulb would be a good candidate for a ZLL example.

You can also look for devices that work with the Amazon echo plus: that’s using the ZHA profile.

I’m assuming you already know the following, but just in case not:

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…

and since @johnconstantelo beat me to it, to clarify, the zigbee profile chosen determines just which “certified clusters and attributes“ the device will use. So we were saying the same thing there.