[Swansea Hackspace] Zigbee and Raspberry Pi

[Richard Morgan]

Cheers Tom

On 1 December 2016 at 12:24, Thomas Lake <tswsl1989 at sucs.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 01/12/16 12:18, Richard Morgan wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I'm preparing for my next hack-project and I was wondering if there's a
> > suitable Zigbee interface for the Raspberry Pi that anyone has come
> across?
> >
> > Ideally I want to look at using the Raspberry Pi to talk to a Smart
> > Meter-Home Area Network which uses Zigbee.
>
> You can get adapters for Zigbee that let you connect them to USB or
> Serial (DB9/RS232) ports. They either spit the data out directly or as
> packets, depending on what mode the devices are in - although that's a
> detail for the software side rather than the hardware side.
>
> Not sure if anyone has made a dedicated Raspberry Pi interface, but you
> could probably adapt the RS232 connection if you can't use the USB one
> for some reason.
>
> - Tom
>
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Kind regards,

Richard
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