Lidl smart home gateway
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Simon Still
Mar 25, 2021, 5:06:29 AM3/25/21
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£20. Appears to be Zigbee compatible.
Am I right in thinking you can use something like that as a "gateway" between a Loxone system and Zigbee plugs and stuff?
Ewan Tait
Mar 25, 2021, 2:55:27 PM3/25/21
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On Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 9:06:29 AM UTC Simon Still wrote:
£20. Appears to be Zigbee compatible.Am I right in thinking you can use something like that as a "gateway" between a Loxone system and Zigbee plugs and stuff?
Integrating third party smart home systems with the Lidl gateway involves going through Lidl's remote server. A quick google doesn't suggest anyway of Loxone connecting to the Lidl system directly, so you would need to use another smart home system such as Home Assistant to act as a go between.
If you're looking to use Zigbee devices with Loxone, I expect that there are easier ways to do it, which wouldn't require the use of a third party server.
Personally I'm using a Raspberry Pi 4 with Loxberry and the Zigbee2MQTT and MQTT Gateway plugins, along with an Electrolama zig-a-zig-ah! USB adapter. It was all relatively straight forward to setup, and it's now working with Ikea Zigbee smart sockets, a Tuya temperature sensor, and I've just finished configuring an Ikea blind.
Other members here are using ioBroker and Node-Red.
Cheers,
Ewan
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