Attempt to pair Livolo Zigbee switch

[Ton1965]

I have bought a Livolo zigbee switch like this one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Livolo-Touch-ZIGBEE/32918552579.html?spm=a2g0v.10010108.1000016%2FB.1.12754ab2JVEKJU

It seems to be a good option for its price.

The original Livolo instruction is to buy their own gateway and pair using their application. The pairing should be done by keeping a switch button pressed for 5 seconds. It should beep and pair after that.

The problem is it does not want to pair to zigbee2mqtt. I tried the following:

• press a button for 5 seconds, hear the beep, release the button and just wait;
• press a button for 5 seconds, hear the beep, keep it pressed for some more time (up to 90 seconds)
• switch on and off several times after the beep.

All the time I kept the device close to the zigbee stick.

I just could not observe any activity in zigbee2mqtt log in any of these cases. I have double checked that 'permit_join' is set to true and log_level set to 'debug'. I even tried to run zigbee2mqtt together with DEBUG=zigbee-shepherd* - no result.

Does anyone have any suggestions/advices/ideas? It would be very nice to add support to this device since this model seems to be much more attractive than the corresponding RF model.

[khzd]

Hi Ton1965
I order one too, hop it's work with zigbee2mqtt
did not get it yet, i will post my finding too
cheers

[Ton1965]

Hi @khzd,

I am glad I am not the only one! I still could not succeed in pairing the switch to zigbee2mqtt 😞. It just does not produce any output in the logs. Probably it is just broken but I hope for the best. I do not want to buy their gateway since it means installing it instead of some outlet and I do not have any spare ones.

Best wishes.

[khzd]

Asap i got it I will give a try :) I will maybe confirme that yours is not broken :)
Still in the flight

[kirovilya]

My friend also bought this switch. And also could not pair it with the coordinator :(
Nothing in log

[khzd]

Hi
What about using winshark to hack it? Asap I got it il will give a try
Anyone to help for this hack ?

[Ton1965]

@khzd ,
I am ready to help although I am not very experienced in this kind of things. But I will try to do my best although I will probably need some direction.
Can wireshark really be used to sniff on zigbee? I thought it is used for http traffic going through the router, but as I said I do not know much about this.

[lych]

Hi guys.
When I was buying this switch, a seller warned me it works only with their gateway.
I've tried wireshark with zigbee sniffer. I wasn't able to catch any zigbee packets. So, I see two options, it's encrypted or it uses their own proprietary protocol.
I'm waiting for another CC2531 dongle because I have only one and it's difficult to flash it each time.
When I get the new device, I'll continue the experiments to understand if it's encrypted or not.

[Lumbricus]

I also bought one of the switches and have the same problem. Would be nice to pair it, because the RF version doesn't give a feedback. There's only a receiver inside.

If you open the switch you can see, that they use a CC2630.

[khzd]

Hi guys,

I did not get yet mine, i planned to by 12 unit to equipe my house :(
I choose this one for a mechanical constraint : the far side of the device is circular so fit exactly in my France installation. the xiaomi alternative one has a square fare side so need to change all holes ( irreversible operation)

Remarque : they sold it as conform to Zigbee alliance, is is a new release ? Zigbee 3?

cheers

[Ton1965]

@khzd,
I am in almost the same situation: I want it to fit into the European hole. I have bought just one for now since I suspected there might be some difficulties. If you have already ordered all 12 then you probably would be better off to get their coordinator althoug I do not like this idea😞. I still hope that probably someone does have a coordinator and will be able to hack the protocol.
PS. I have Livolo RF switch and it is running fine but it does not return its state so it is not always convenient.

[Koenkk]

A bit offtopic: but for european holes I would highly recommend the Shelly 1 with tasmota (wifi esp8266 device). It fits easily and allows you to keep your normal switch. Ive installed 20 of them in my home and they work perfect!

[khzd]

Hi ton1966 I planned to bay 12 but I did not , I see that it s not planned to be supported by zigbee2mqtt :(
I m happy to order only one, the loose is limited :)
For European holes, zigbee will wait ...

[mpisek]

Does their gateway support TCP/IP stack? I guess its a zigbee to wifi device? Does it have a local or cloud API?

[lych]

According to their advertisment, their gateway is able to work with Amazon Alexa but I haven't seen any APIs yet.

[ptvoinfo]

@Lumbricus Is it possible to flash this chip? Could you please make a hi-res photo of the board with this chip?