Devices are locked to the manufacturer's network key

I bought some devices from Livolo with Zigbee and thought I could connect them when creating an app but I currently got stuck because the devices seem to have locked network id’s and channel not sure if the channel would be a problem for the homey. But someone know how or where I would have to specify the network id in the driver?

Example from zigbee mqtt:

If it’s already a challenge for zigbee2mqtt, it won’t (ever) work on a Homey I’m afraid.
The settable channels are 11 to 21 on a Pro19
Not sure if ch. 26 is possible @ Pro 23.

It’s also the first time I’ve seen something like this:

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My advise: return these devices if you still can.

The thing is this is the only zigbee noise sensor I could find and creating something with a arduino didnt give the right results

These devices are designed to only work with Livolo’s own gateway.

As @Peter_Kawa already stated, you can’t make these work with Homey at all, and probably never will. Even with a much better and more elaborate Zigbee implementation as offered by zigbee2mqtt it’s a PITA to get them working and it doesn’t even work with all Zigbee dongles.

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What sound(s) do you like to detect? Or is it just for dB measurements?

This seems pretty advanced (and pretty expensive to me), not zigbee probably:
Minut Homey app
https://www.minut.com/pricing

Want to measure decibels indeed saw the minute option but its a bit much for just two sensors. I would prefer zigbee or matter but if there is a good wifi option I could connect to homey it would be fine too.

Esphome is a option but its a bit hard to find a good sensor and calibrate it(tried a couple of sensors). Also I dont like the hard coded wifi password on the arduino

I see. Yeah Minute would be overkill.

Dunno if you’ve seen this below already.
You can use an ESP32 & ESPhome app;
They claim this specific i2c sensor to be pre-calibrated

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Thank you will try this sensor. Didn’t find that one yet

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Well, I ordered one yesterday! I can use a good dB sensor…
But it can take up to 25 days for it to arrive from India by mail :grimacing: