Nordic Semi nRF52840 chips with ZBOSS Zigbee stack should now be usable as Zigbee Coordinator if add new zigpy-zboss radio library for zigpy

[Hedda]

FYI, you now also have the option to add support for Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 as a Zigbee Coordinator via zigpy-zboss:

https://github.com/kardia-as/zigpy-zboss

This is still an unofficial and bleeding-edge experiment radio library, but sounds promesing. See there zigpy community discussion here:

zigpy/zigpy#394

Could make it usable for developers and testers to use either nRF52840 USB dongle or nRF52840 dev kits with the correct firmware.

nRF52840 Dongle only costs around $10 USD today:

https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Development-hardware/nrf52840-dongle

nRF52840 DK (Development Kit) cost about $60 USD:

https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Development-hardware/nrf52840-dk

Anyway, ZBOSS Zigbee stack support has the potential to be a big deal since its firmware is open-source and hardware independent:

https://dsr-zoi.com

https://dsr-iot.com

PS: In addition, this is also interesting for another reason and that it is that if and when this zigpy-zboss radio library gets adopted and developed further then it could able make it work with ESP32-C6 (and ESP32-H2) modules with ESPHome as a remote Zigbee serial adapter

zigpy/zigpy#1052

esphome/feature-requests#1397

[pipiche38]

thanks for letting us know.