Zigbee Support
Nassiel opened this issue · 5 comments
Hi,
By using IDF directly to configure the Zigbee protocol, I was able to connect a device to a Zigbee network and manage it using Home Assistant. There are plenty of examples for C there.
Is there any plan to include the same capabilities vía idf-hal and add also examples for HA?
Thank you!
@Nassiel You could be the one that drives that effort!
An initial step would be to PR against esp-idf-sys's bindings.h header all the Zigbee headers we need to include from the ESP IDF. This way, all C examples can be (unsafely) re-implemented in Rust by calling into the ESP IDF unsafe Zigbee APIs that would now be available from Rust
Once we have this, we can think of a nice type-safe wrapper for Zigbee in esp-idf-svc. But that's only a second step.
The esp-idf-* projects are community-driven, so unless someone steps in and contributes a PR, certain functionalities might wait until one of the current maintainers (as in me and Frank) has either free time or use-case to implement this functionality ourselves.
Hi @ivmarkov, I'd love to do it, but I'm struggling to map functions like esp_zb_bdb_start_top_level_commissioning(ESP_ZB_BDB_MODE_INITIALIZATION); for instance, inside the IDF mapping. Is there any documentation of how they are mapped to Rust, naming conventions, data structures, etc.?
Look at the esp-idf-sys crate that I mentioned. It generates the "mappings" (bindings) automatically for you, as long as you #include the relevant ESP IDF headers in the bindings.h file which lives inside it.