What could be the reason that the zigbee device, specifically the homey plugin, recognizes it as unknown?

Homey’s generic Zigbee support has no support for (movement) sensors, only for lights. So without a specific app for your sensors they shouldn’t work (if they do, I guess your Homey is magical :unicorn::sweat_smile:)

[image] robertklep: Homey’s generic Zigbee support Do you mean the KlikAanKlikUit (Zigbee) app? That does support sensors. [IMG_2816]

You stated that all your “unknown Zigbee devices” are working fine. If a device is explicitly handled by an app, it can’t be unknown. So I’m confused now…

[image] robertklep: So I’m confused now… Me too! How to add a Zigbee lamp without an app? I tried to capture the error message. But now, no matter which lamp I chose in the app, it finds the lamp with the correct name in the device tile. A lamp I did not install before. I think the “error me…

[image] Rmb: Me too! How to add a Zigbee lamp without an app? When adding a device, choose brand “Homey”, then “Zigbee”. That’s because Homey will pick the correct driver automatically when pairing the device.

[image] robertklep: When adding a device, choose brand “Homey”, then “Zigbee” I was not aware of that. When I bought my Homey Pro 2023, I immediately addded the apps KaKu and KaKu (Zigbee). So maybe @ Sebastian_Kubala problem can be solved by using the KaKu (Zigbee) device, or even the Hue w…

[image] Rmb: How to add a Zigbee lamp without an app? This feature was already added about 2 years ago: [image] What's new in Homey v7.1

[image] Rmb: So maybe @ Sebastian_Kubala problem can be solved by using the KaKu (Zigbee) device, or even the Hue without the bridge app (I got the idea it does use Zigbee too) That will only work if his devices are directly supported by one of those apps. Using those apps for devices for whi…

Well, I have no idea which device @ Sebastian_Kubala tries to install. So I cannot advice him.

[image] DirkG: This feature was already added about 2 years ago: That’s probably the reason why it is not mentioned in the Homey Pro 2023 documentation :grin:

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