{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openhab/openhab2/issues/142","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openhab/openhab2/issues/142/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openhab/openhab2/issues/142/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openhab/openhab2/issues/142/events","html_url":"https://github.com/openhab/openhab2/issues/142","id":58458425,"number":142,"title":"ZigBee Binding","user":{"login":"cdjackson","id":1041475,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1041475?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdjackson","html_url":"https://github.com/cdjackson","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdjackson/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdjackson/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdjackson/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdjackson/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdjackson/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdjackson/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdjackson/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdjackson/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdjackson/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openhab/openhab2/labels/newbinding","name":"newbinding","color":"5319e7"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":36,"created_at":"2015-02-21T12:50:28Z","updated_at":"2015-05-18T10:08:56Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I have an initial ZigBee binding running.\r\nCurrently controlling Hue lights, but will also shortly add other devices."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openhab/openhab2/issues/comments/103006383","html_url":"https://github.com/openhab/openhab2/issues/142#issuecomment-103006383","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/openhab/openhab2/issues/142","id":103006383,"user":{"login":"ubisys","id":3982540,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3982540?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ubisys","html_url":"https://github.com/ubisys","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ubisys/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ubisys/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ubisys/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ubisys/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ubisys/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ubisys/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ubisys/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ubisys/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ubisys/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-18T10:08:56Z","updated_at":"2015-05-18T10:08:56Z","body":"Hi Jeffrey,\n\n \n\nThank you for your reply.\n\n \n\nWe were under the impression that openHAB might need some ZigBee devices to play with. At least for the EMEA market, which we support with our products, there are only few manufacturers with reliable and solid product offerings. Getting technical manuals and firmware images to test your OTA server implementation might be difficult. We have some experience here, since we also offer a gateway which is open to other vendor’s ZigBee products. For example, try to get OTA images for hue bulbs…\n\n \n\nWe also were under the impression that openHAB has a strong background in Germany and Europe given it highlights KNX, enOcean, Homematic and digitalSTROM as “Featured Technologies” on its website. These aren’t particularly strong on the US market, but key players in the German market.\n\n \n\nWe are also not sure how the comparison of US and German smart home markets relates to our offer?\n\n \n\nUnfortunately, what we see is poor quality of ZigBee support on many smart home platforms in terms of reliability and utilization of native ZigBee features like groups, scenes, reporting etc. That is one of the reasons, why ZigBee adoption is slower in Europe, than it could and should be. The technology, if properly implemented, provides some unique advantages. There is no other standards-based wireless technology, which could provide mature, self-organizing  and self-healing low-power wireless mesh networking, security, interoperability, and availability of second source offerings.\n\n \n\nSegue and eurocontols are unknown to us and a quick google search didn’t reveal anything useful. Would you be so kind to provide a link to their websites?\n\n \n\nThanks\n\n \n\n  _____  \n\nubisys technologies GmbH\n\nSmart Home Support\nAm Wehrhahn 45 \n40211 Düsseldorf \nGERMANY\n\n\nT: +49 (211) 54 21 55 – 21\nF: +49 (211) 54 21 55 – 99 \n  \n <http://www.ubisys.de/> www.ubisys.de\n\n <mailto:support@ubisys.de> support@ubisys.de\n\nManaging Directors: Dr. Arasch Honarbacht, Marcel Apfel\nRegistration No.: Amtsgericht Düsseldorf, HRB 55782\n\n \n\n \n\nVon: JSCallahan [mailto:notifications@github.com] \nGesendet: Samstag, 16. Mai 2015 08:16\nAn: openhab/openhab2\nCc: ubisys\nBetreff: Re: [openhab2] ZigBee Binding (#142)\n\n \n\nre:ubisys - we can do all of the above also with Segue and eurocontrols ,\nplus , nothing is competing in Germany in the ZigBee realm, whatsoever , to\nUS directed and owned corps. It is a marketing and Sales FACT, not\nconjecture. Germany's market is TINY and international presence in the\nlighting manufacturing field is dismally behind even the smallest labs or\ncorps in the US. Although, obviously, all markets are worth considering\neven the small ones.\n\nAll the Best\n\n-Jeffrey\n\nOn Sat, May 16, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Jeffrey Callahan < <mailto:prismalites@gmail.com> prismalites@gmail.com>\nwrote:\n\n> Dear Chris, of course there's interest. I am proof of such, and FYI\n> ubisys.de is nowhere near as large as the clients here in the US\n> regardless of their web presentation lol. I'm replying to your last in\n> short order - family emergency came up yesterday, unfortunately, and most\n> of today was taken up as well. More in a bit. Detailed responses to your\n> last will follow shortly.\n>\n> All the Best!\n>\n> -Jeffrey\n>\n> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:45 AM, ubisys < <mailto:notifications@github.com> notifications@github.com> wrote:\n>\n>> As a company making ZigBee HA devices, we would like to support this\n>> effort. We could provide documentation, devices and OTA images for a range\n>> of devices with different standard clusters. These will also be upgradable\n>> to ZigBee 3.0 shortly. If you are interested, please send an email to\n>>  <mailto:support@ubisys.de> support@ubisys.de, referring to openHAB ZigBee binding project.\n>>\n>> —\n>> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub\n>> < <https://github.com/openhab/openhab2/issues/142#issuecomment-102389685> https://github.com/openhab/openhab2/issues/142#issuecomment-102389685>.\n>>\n>\n>\n\n\n\n—\nReply to this email directly or view it on GitHub <https://github.com/openhab/openhab2/issues/142#issuecomment-102576425> .  <https://github.com/notifications/beacon/ADzEzBho8F5q4lbWv1tEVG-hTuHa5bc2ks5oJtgOgaJpZM4Djuzs.gif> \n\n"}}