Connecting the CC2530

Using a USB to serial adapter

Confirmed working

This how-to has been confirmed working with the following CC2530 based devices:

Device Image
CC2530 CC2530

and the following USB to serial adapters:

Device Image
CP2102 CP2102
Flashing the firmware

The required coordinator fimrware can be found here: CC sniffer devices.

Connecting

Connect to CC2530 to the USB to serial adapter using the following mapping:

USB-Serial Adaper CC2530
3V3 VCC
GND GND
TXD P02
RXD P03

Now plug in the USB-to-serial adapter in your USB port.

Configuration

Add the following to your Zigbee2mqtt configuration.yaml:

advanced:
  rtscts: false

and start Zigbee2mqtt, enjoy!

To a Raspberry Pi (Zero)

CC2530 can be connected to a Raspberry PI (Zero) via GPIO Pins - no USB2FTDI is needed.

The use of UART by the installed Linux has to be disabled: Detailed explanation here

Enable UART in the Kernel and disable UART use for BlueTooth.

In /boot/config.txt add following lines:

enable_uart=1
dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt

Disable the modem system service (on the command line):

sudo systemctl disable hciuart

Remove the console entry by removing any of those entries from /boot/cmdline.txt if present:

console=serial0,115200 console=ttyAMA0,115200

Reboot your Raspberry.

Wiring CC2530 to the Raspberry

CC C2530 -> Raspberry
VCC -> 3,3V (Pin1)
GND -> GND (Pin6)
P02 -> TXD (Pin8 / BCM 14)
P03 -> RXD (Pin10 / BCM 15)

CC2531PI

Configuring zigbee2mqtt

Change the Serial Port in your data/configuration.yaml file:

serial:
  port: /dev/ttyAMA0
advanced:
  baudrate: 115200
  rtscts: false

Have fun.

Via an ESP8266

This setup allows you to connect a CC2530 to an ESP8266 which can be put everywhere in your house. Via a serial socket, Zigbee2mqtt will connect to your CC2530.

Wiring

Wire the CC2530 to the ESP8266 using the following scheme:

ESP8266 CC2530
3v3 VCC
GND GND
TX P02
RX P03
GND P20
GND P04
GND P05

Flashing the ESP8266

The ESP8266 needs to be flashed with ESPEasy. ESPEasy has suficient documentation on how to get you up and running:

Setting up the ESP8266

Open the ESPEasy web interface and complete the setup. Afterwards open the web interface again.

Click on Devices Edit of the first task and select Communication - Serial Server from the dropdown list.

Fill in the form as following:

a.    Name: ZIGBEE2MQTT
b.    Enabled: checked
c.    TCP Port: a number between 1000 and 9999 "1775"
d.    Baud Rate: 115200
e.    Data bits: 8
f.    Parity: No Parity
g.    Stop bits: 1
h.    Reset target after boot: - none –
i.    RX receive timeout: 0
j.    Event processing: Generic

Press Submit, the setup is now completed.

Mounting the serialport

The following instructions need to be executed on the computer that Zigbee2mqtt is running on.

# Install soccat
sudo apt-get install -y socat

# Create directory for mount point
sudo mkdir /opt/zigbee2mqtt/vusb/

# Give pi user owner rights to /opt/zigbee2mqtt/vusb/
sudo chown -R pi:pi /opt/zigbee2mqtt/vusb/

Comfirm that the connection works

Change the IP and PORT and execute:

socat -d -d pty,raw,echo=0,link=/opt/zigbee2mqtt/vusb/zigbee_cc2530 tcp-connect:IP:PORT

or

socat -d -d pty,raw,b115200,echo=0,link=/opt/zigbee2mqtt/vusb/zigbee_cc2530 tcp:127.0.0.1:1775

Mounting the serialport on boot

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/socat-vusb.service

Add the following to this file (make sure to change the IP and PORT)

[Unit]
Description=socat-vusb
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=pi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/socat -d -d pty,raw,echo=0,link=/opt/zigbee2mqtt/vusb/zigbee_cc2530 tcp:IP:PORT,reuseaddr
Restart=always
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.targett

Save the file and exit.

Update systemd:

sudo systemctl --system daemon-reload

Verify that the configuration works:

sudo systemctl start socat-vusb.service

Show status

systemctl status socat-vusb.service

Restart and check Log

sudo systemctl restart socat-vusb.service && sudo journalctl -f -u socat-vusb.service

Now that everything works, we want systemctl to start socat-vusb automatically on boot, this can be done by executing:

sudo systemctl enable socat-vusb.service

Some tips that can be handy later:

Stopping socat-vusb

sudo systemctl stop socat-vusb

Starting socat-vusb

sudo systemctl start socat-vusb

View the log of socat-vusb

sudo journalctl -u socat-vusb.service -f

Output should look like:
```bash
pi@hassbian:~ $ systemctl status socat-vusb.service
● socat-vusb.service - socat-vusb
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/socat-vusb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2019-02-01 15:35:24 UTC; 4min 11s ago
 Main PID: 1406 (socat)
   CGroup: /system.slice/socat-vusb.service
           └─1406 /usr/bin/socat -d -d pty,raw,b115200,echo=0,link=/opt/zigbee2mqtt/vusb/zigbee_cc2530 tcp:127.0.0.1:1775,reuseaddr

Feb 01 15:35:24 hassbian systemd[1]: Started socat-vusb.
Feb 01 15:35:24 hassbian socat[1406]: 2019/02/01 15:35:24 socat[1406] N PTY is /dev/pts/3
Feb 01 15:35:24 hassbian socat[1406]: 2019/02/01 15:35:24 socat[1406] N opening connection to AF=2 127.0.0.1:1775
Feb 01 15:35:24 hassbian socat[1406]: 2019/02/01 15:35:24 socat[1406] N successfully connected from local address AF=2 127.0.0.1:47512
Feb 01 15:35:24 hassbian socat[1406]: 2019/02/01 15:35:24 socat[1406] N starting data transfer loop with FDs [5,5] and [7,7]

Adding virtual device to zigbee2mqtt config

sudo nano  /opt/zigbee2mqtt/data/configuration.yaml

serial:
  port: /opt/zigbee2mqtt/vusb/zigbee_cc2530

advanced:
  rtscts: false

Restart zigbee2mqtt and confirm it works.

sudo systemctl restart zigbee2mqtt.service && sudo journalctl -f -u zigbee2mqtt.service