Re: [LUG] OT: Zigbee was Re: OT: Power-line extenders - highest throughput? Also WiFi cards that support monitor mode

[Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx>]

I use Zigbee extensively, via zigbee2mqtt, mqtt and home assistant. (And then onto some other logging). 

This is for home automation - lots of temp/humidity sensors, lights, remote plugs etc. 

It works well, although the cheaper usb sticks are a bit hit and miss. 

I do monitor a dumb electric meter using a clamp-on CurrentCost, but that's via RF and serial connection and some scripting to get it into a database. 

Don't know if any of that is useful, but I would recomment z2m as a piece of software, the logging is very useful to see what's being received. 

On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 at 18:58, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Saturday, 10 July 2021 17:19:27 BST Michael Everitt wrote:
>
> Anecdotally, done anything with Zigbee? I kinda wanted to "hack" into my IHD
> (smart meter) info stream, so I could monitor/graph data on a sub-hour
> basis (which the energy company do by default for billing) ?
> I've got a dongle which will do the 'sniffing' but I'm not sure whether it's
> deaf (can't see the signal) can't decode the signal .. or else. Probably a
> combination of lack of knowledge and PEBKAC .. oh wait ..

No, afraid not. I probably should know more, but never came up professionally.

I have a smart meter and a Chameleon Technology IHD3-PPMID type 1 meter, which
you are welcome to come and try and read the meter, but I guess they are all
over the place.



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