How to: Blue Series, Zigbee2MQTT, Node Red

Hey everyone, I’m relatively green when it comes to Zigbee2Mqtt and Node Red but I figured I’d share how I was able to get the two to work together for notifications and scenes.

  1. Fire up node red and go to Manage Pallette:

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  1. Go to install and type in the following:

  1. Our reference going forward for payloads will be from the following: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/VZM31-SN.html

  2. Let’s make a notification happen. Insert a zigbee2mqtt out node

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  1. Edit and set up your MQTT server information by clicking hte pencil next to the Serve and put in your information.

  1. Select your device. Command will be JSON {}

  1. Click the three … next to payload

  2. Lets make the notification do a slow chase, white at full brightness for 10 seconds

  1. Now lets test it out. Insert an inject node just before your mqtt out node.

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Hit Deploy and click the check box next to inject and voila.

  1. Rinse, reuse repeat. Hope this is helpful for some.
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