Hello all! I just got Things setup and I’m looking to test it out in my house. I have Things running successfully on a Pi. In my house I have a bunch of ZigBee and a few ZWave devices, so naturally I went for an adapter. I got this one first:
My thinking was that one dongle would support both standards, so I could combine everything under Things for control. I plugged the adapter in, but I was unable to get it to detect any devices. In particular I couldn’t get ZigBee to work for my Hue lights. Upon further digging I realized that this adapter wasn’t mentioned in the Wiki as one that’s supported, so I got this one:
I added the “adapter” for it and tried to find some ZigBee stuff, but it didn’t work out of the box. Understanding that Things is really early and that I’d likely have to do some command line stuff I went digging and found this GitHub page for the conbee adapter I have: https://github.com/tomasy/zigbee-conbee-adapter
I tried my best to follow the instructions, but they’re either incomplete, or more likely I don’t understand the context.
I assume I’m going to have to do more than just plug this stick into the Pi. It looks like I need an API key and such, but before that do I need to have some kind of service running on the Pi to support the conbee stick?
The instructions aren’t even clear about where I’m supposed to get this key, from Chrome on the Pi, or on my PC?
I was about to flash stock Raspbian and try the Linux utility ConBee supplies (it’s GUI only it looks like) and then try and load Things to see if I could get it to work… Before I go down that rabbit hole I figured I’d ask here.
I’m not a developer, but I’m reasonably comfortable with doing basics on a Pi. Perhaps I’ve missed something super obvious here?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!