Hello, I want to by this type of XIAO but I am not sure. Tell me is there some way to use this hardware to send messages via zigbee? Is it implemented in Arduino SDK or Micropython sdk? The chip should be able to use zigbee → chip manufactuer wrote it on his page.
Hello, thank you for your interest in our products. Currently the XIAO nRF52840 chip is ZigBee enabled, but we have not developed the ZigBee content, so the full range of XIAO is currently not ZigBee enabled.
I am very sorry, in the original plan we were going to develop zigbee function for it.
We have removed the text supporting zigbee from the promotional material now.
I bought 2 of the nrf52840’s from Amazon specifically for zigbee support. Now, in addition to needing to return my current boards, I have to research and find, then order something new. This will set my project back by a week or so.
And I just checked the Amazon product listing, and it still states that the nrf52840 supports zigbee.
Perhaps @Bwko would be so kind as to share details of how to flash the bootloader & softdevice to get zigbee working for others that run into this in the future.
I was going to ask “why does the XIAO nRF52840 page say that it doesn’t support zigbee?”, because I know it does, and then I saw this topic.
Zigbee is not a part of, or reliant on, the SoftDevice stack. It does not need anything from SeeedStudio and it has nothing to do with the bootloader. So it should be easy to make the XIAO work with Zigbee.
Inside, there is both a lower level 802.15.4 module and a higher level ZBOSS stack for full Zigbee stack
The only problem I’ve ran into using SDKs directly from Nordic is that the Arduino core uses older SDKs from Nordic, and there are occasionally minor changes that make the newer SDK not compatible with existing older SDK files