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العربية Connect · Zigbee
Zigbee sensors on Kilo, via a Zigbee2MQTT hub
Kilo has no Zigbee radio of its own — and doesn’t need one. A small Zigbee2MQTT hub joins your sensors, plugs, and lamps into a mesh and publishes every device as flat JSON over MQTT, which the platform’s MQTT connector consumes directly.
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How Zigbee2MQTT bridges your devices
Set up the hub
A small Linux machine — a Raspberry Pi works — plus a USB Zigbee coordinator runs the open-source Zigbee2MQTT software and joins your devices to the mesh.
Point it at the MQTT connector
Configure Zigbee2MQTT to publish to a Cloud MQTT endpoint or your own broker. Each device appears on zigbee2mqtt/{friendlyName} as flat JSON.
Register the devices
Register each Zigbee device with its friendly name as the device ID and map the payload keys — temperature, humidity, state, power — to normalized metrics.
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What works over Zigbee2MQTT
- Thousands of supported devices
- Zigbee2MQTT maintains a public compatibility list covering sensors, smart plugs, lamps, and switches from many vendors — validate your planned models before procurement.
- Environmental sensors
- Temperature, humidity, CO₂, presence, and light-level sensors — ideal for office, lab, and facility instrumentation.
- Plugs and lighting
- Smart-plug power telemetry and lamp state arrive as regular device metrics, ready for dashboards and rules.
- Flat JSON payloads
- Zigbee2MQTT publishes flat JSON, which the MQTT connector parses automatically — mapping is just matching keys to metrics.
- Right-sized scope
- A strong fit for pilots, offices, and building adjuncts. High-throughput factory telemetry is better served by Modbus, BACnet, or OPC UA bridges.
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What your Zigbee data feeds
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Zigbee2MQTT FAQ
What hardware do I need for a Zigbee2MQTT hub?
Three things: a small Linux host (an industrial mini-PC or Raspberry Pi), a Zigbee coordinator radio — a USB dongle such as the Sonoff ZBDongle-E, or a network-attached coordinator — and the free Zigbee2MQTT software running as a service.
Does Kilo support Zigbee natively?
No — and that is deliberate. Zigbee devices connect through a Zigbee2MQTT hub that bridges the mesh over MQTT. From the platform’s perspective the hub is a regular MQTT publisher, so the whole registration and mapping flow is the standard MQTT one.
Which Zigbee devices are compatible?
Anything on the Zigbee2MQTT supported-devices list — thousands of models. Interoperability is good but not perfect, so check your specific models against the list (and their firmware notes) before buying in volume.
What happens if the hub goes down?
The mesh pauses until the hub is back — Zigbee2MQTT is the active link between the mesh and the broker. For operationally relevant telemetry, run it as a supervised service with restart-on-failure and validate recovery with a deliberate failure test.
Bridge your first Zigbee sensor this week
Start free — a Cloud MQTT connector and one hub are all it takes. Or book a call and we’ll plan the hub, coordinator, and device list together.