FYI, ESPHome very close now to getting initial native Zigbee component to allow building DIY Zigbee end-devices with both ESP32 and nrf52 microcontroller

[Hedda]

FYI, just a heads-up to Zigbee2MQTT developers (and ZHA/zigpy developers) as code reviews is wanted for this initial native unified Zigbee end-device building support in the ESPHome microcontroller firmware framework which now looks to be very close to merger into into mainline ESPHome, (and since this is initially only the bare-minimum Zigbee in ESPHome I assume they are also willing to take in feedback and discuss future standardization via Discord too).

In summery; tomaszduda23 and luar123 (who both been working on Zigbee support for ESPHome separately for a couple of years) are now more or less fully aligned and have agreed on how the initial Zigbee config with platform/component abstraction should be handled/formatted at a high-level for ESPHome config to be platform-independent, and as such they both each submitted matching pull requests for initial bare-minimum Zigbee support on nRF52 and ESP32 microcontrollers with IEEE 802.15.4-based radios as ESPHome platforms respectively. You can check those out those PRs, see:

• [nrf52,zigbee] add support for binary_input esphome/esphome#11535

and

• ZigBee component for ESP32H2 and C6 supporting binary sensors esphome/esphome#11553

Plus the matching initial documentation pull requests here for ESPHome docs:

• Zigbee esphome/esphome-docs#5526

and

• Add zigbee component docu esphome/esphome-docs#5582

The zigbee component allows exposing supported ESPHome components over a Zigbee network to Home Assistant via Zigbee2MQTT or ZHA. Due to the limitations of the Zigbee protocol, only basic properties are exposed. Additional properties must be configured manually in Home Assistant.

Example entry for config.yaml in ESPHome:

# Example config.yaml
esphome:
  name: zigbee_test

esp32:
  board: esp32-h2-devkitm-1
  framework:
    type: esp-idf

zigbee:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: gpio
    pin:
      number: 9
    name: but1
    report: force
  - platform: gpio
    pin:
      number: 8
    id: but2
    on_click:
      min_length: 5s
      max_length: 20s
      then:
        - zigbee.factory_reset

PS: Both tomaszduda23 and luar123 also still have their previous work and pulls requests open that offer much more extensive and comprehensive Zigbee device types (which also have much more information and better overview of the project scopes), but I guess that if the two pull requests linked above are accepted and merged into ESPHome mainline then each of their comprehensive work (linked below) will be partially rewritten to align with the new agreed upon standard and formatting. See:

• [nrf52, zigbee] zigbee binary_sensor, switch, time, sensor and number esphome/esphome#7340

and

• https://github.com/luar123/zigbee_esphome