Zigbee and Particle devices

[gusgonnet]

Hi, I'm curious to know if any of you have played with any interaction of Zigbee sensors and Particle devices, by connecting a Zigbee capable chip to a Particle device.

Edit: I've seen this post (Xbee modules could speak zigbee I believe):

Photon + XBee Digi MESH

[image] After realizing the Particle mesh would not fit the needs of one larger project I want to move forward with I decided Digi’s XBee Digimesh 900MHz Radios are a better fit due to increased 1 mile urban range, a stable platform with 10 million units sold, and from what I read can handle at least 128 nodes per network, and there is good windows software for easy setup and troubleshooting. These are more expensive radios but they are different and they have all the certifications behind th…

What I'm interested today is in finding out if I can interact with a zigbee sensor, example:

Thanks

[rickkas7]

You can't use a Particle device with Zigbee directly; you'd need to add a secondary MCU for that. While the nRF52840 can support Zigbee, it uses a different SoftDevice binary and would not fit. Remember when Gen 3 user binaries expanded from 128K to 256K in 3.2.0? That was possible because we took the space used by the large SoftDevice for Particle Mesh (6LoWPAN over 802.15.4) and used it for the user binary instead. The Zigbee SoftDevice is similarly large.

[gusgonnet]

Yes, sorry I wasn't clear on this. I meant to ask if anybody added an extra MCU that allowed them to connect to Zigbee devices and how did it go.
I never meant (and I did not know there was a chance in the past) to connect directly.
Thanks for the inside story!