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Should I Be Switching My Dongle To Run As An RCP? (lemmy.tf)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One of the things I'd been putting off through pretty much cowardice, was updating my Zigbee coordinator. However, this morning I said fuck it and found the tabs that I opened about it again.

This turned out to be a great idea because not only did I have the tabs for the wrong device open, the right tabs updated and now the process was simpler than ever. Hooray!

But there was some extra stuff in there, no longer was it just about updating the dongle, now it was about enabling Matter/Thread and switching from NCP to RCP. Network Co Processor to Remote Co Processor to the ignorant like myself.

I didn't opt for this, but I'm wondering if I should? If any of you have?

BTW, the only issue I had with my set-up after upgrading the dongle firmware is that I had to manually restart the Zigbee2MQTT container afterwards and the initial cable I was using, wouldn't do the upgrade, so I switched to my cheaper one from AliExpress which did it with ease, but that was obviously beforehand.

Edit: Here's the resource I used: https://dialedin.com.au/blog/sonoff-zbdongle-e-rcp-firmware

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Only do it if you have, or when you get Matter/Thread devices on your network. IIRC, last time I looked at this it appeared to be much more complicated, required an extra add-on container, and was expiremental, so came with the caveat of 'things might break on updates'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, okay. Thank you for the heads up.