Impossibile to flash on SonoZigbee 3.0 USB (Windows) #107
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The flasher is not getting any response from the dongle. Is this ZBdongle-E? what firmware is on it currently? |
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Ho thanks, is the classic Sonoff ZigBee 3.0 dongle as far as I remember is the original firmware on it. Would using the python script bypass the issue? |
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Sonoff have two different dongles, ZBDongle-E is compatible with my web flsher and these firmwares. The other one ZBDongle-P is a different chipset and requires different flasher and firmware from: Make sure you have ZBDongle-E first! |
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I think problem is I have Dongle P and it says dongle P thanks a lot for your input |
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Currently there are no Thread firmwares for the P dongles (that I am aware of anyway). I might release Thread firmware for these sometime in the future... For now, you can however build your own firmware from this repo: |
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Hi thanks! thank very much |
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Hello.
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i tried to update locally. on a Proxmox machine. on a home assistant. installed venv, installed the flasher. tried two versions 7.4.2 and 7.4.3. but i have another problem. |
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@TarasRybak You need to use the raw link from github, otherwise its just downloading the html page. |
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@darkxst |
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I am having the exact same issue as Cannot flash my Sonoff ZBDongle-E with web flasher except mine is not V2 I have tried every USB port on my desktop and get the same error. I just bought this from itead less than two weeks ago. Is it possible it is already updated? How can I find out? |
@Dizzy49 Are you sure this is ZBDongle-E and not ZBDongle-P (which requires different firmware and flashing tools)? |
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Yes, I ordered it from ITEAD and the item is "Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus--
ZBDongle-E"
I also verified on the back of the device.
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Having the same issue. Been trying to troubleshoot all night. I have the dongle-E and out of the box it was working fine. I started reading up on things and was suggested to flash with the newer firmware to use ember or whatever. Tool recognizes the dongle it looks like it connects for a second, then spins out and says cannot read firmware. Tried 3 cables, ports on both front of my PC, back of PC, some USB 2.0 and some 3.1 and 3.2. |
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@Mdumas81 can you provide logs? It seems some Windows users are having trouble with web flasher recently, not sure why though, I havent been able to replicate myself. As an alternative if you have a HA box you can try use the Silabs flasher addon. |
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I have a HA green and I am brand new to all this, so I will totally give that a try. |
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I suppose this is causing it to fail, but not sure why...
There is a hidden setting in the silabs flasher addon (Click the button to show unused settings) that you can use to put a custom URL into. Just make sure you use the RAW url from github page. |
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thank you, i think the firmware updated but i cant tell as the only way i know is to look from within z2m but z2m is now throwing errors |
Are you using |
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I believe so, Ive been at this for a while now so I've messed around with a ton of things. I just reinstalled everything fresh and am trying to setup again but Im getting what appears to be one of the more common errors, but no solution has worked so far. |
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which firmware did you flash? |
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ncp-uart-hw-v7.4.3.0-zbdonglee-115200.gbl |
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ncp-uart-hw-v7.4.2.0-zbdonglee-115200.gbl seems to be flashing properly, Going to try that |
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both those should work, there werent really any changes between 7.4.2 and 7.4.3. |
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ok so 7.4.2 worked it looks like. Im getting a ton more info |
can someone with the above errors, try test with this patched flasher |
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Came across this issue while trying to flash my new ZBDongle-E. cp-test appears to work in that it recognizes the firmware version and provides an options to upgrade, but the install immediately fails for me. |
just came across this, as i had the same issues. Exact same logs as you mentioned. Tried to flash on https://darkxst.github.io/cp-test/ and it worked fine! Thanks so much! |
Using this tool I finally saw the update page, unfortunately, the update is not completed anyway. I've been waiting for 30 minutes but nothing happens. |
yes you need to configure the dongle as device in silabs flasher addon |
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Sorry for the delay, still no go. The flasher just sits there and doesn't do anything. I set the device up on the devices page and started a new network. Still nothing. Edit: I'll attach a log from the Linux web tool as soon as I get home. Edit2: I think I'm just stupid, and doing something totally wrong. Sunday, I ordered an slb-07, just in case the sonoff I bought was bad. It does exactly the same thing. Linux web flasher, and the ha based flasher, neither work. Now, with the ha based flasher, I get an error exiting code 1. And then it quits. |
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EDIT: I used my wifes WIN 11 laptop and it worked just fine ... guess it's time to move to win 11 I have the same issue. Ordered the ZBDongle-E 3 with the SL chip EFR32MG21 Device Manager shows it as "Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (COM5)" (I installed the driver manually from slabs.com Logs: Make sure the USB port works and if you are using a USB extension cable, make sure the cable can transfer data. Unplug the Sonoff ZBDongle-E and plug it back in to reset and try again.` |
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When I try to flash using the web tool on a linux box, i get this log update: running the flashing tool from HA, I get this: [18:30:49] INFO: Starting universal-silabs-flasher with /dev/ttyUSB0 (bootloader baudrate 460800) Add-on: Silicon Labs Flasher
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Now I have found this WTF does that mean? I have installed Ubuntu. There is no "settings". There is "system settings", but there is no "applications" there, only "applets", and chromium doesn't appear on that list. How do I find this setting? |
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I've been trying to troubleshoot the issue for the past week, and up until yesterday, I was still unable to flash the firmware. But this morning, when I tried again on the website(https://darkxst.github.io/silabs-firmware-builder/), it just worked! Then I plugged in my other ZBDongle-E to test, and it also succeeded! Did you fix it? @darkxst This is the information of my device:
Here is the success logs: |
No, I havent changed anything in main site.
Was there a driver update recently perhaps? EDIT: That seems to be an older driver version, perhaps from before the reset bug was introduced in the driver. |
Yes, I uninstalled the original 11.x version of the Windows driver and then installed the driver named CP210x VCP Windows from the Silabs website. To confirm that it was a driver issue, I reinstalled the previous 11.x version driver, and sure enough, I encountered an error when flashing the firmware. If someone encounter the same issue, check your driver version, and try this:
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@tootla Same solution worked for me:
Thank you! Edit: After the first upgrade I can finally use https://darkxst.github.io/silabs-firmware-builder/ |
This solution is working ! |
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Thanks, reverting the device driver to "CP210x VCP Windows" fixed it for me as well |
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I installed windows on an old laptop to look into this further. Unfortunately I can't work around the Silabs driver issues, at least not without a major rewrite of the underlying flashing tools, which I wont be doing. So if your having trouble flashing on windows you have the following options:
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Good summary of the options 👌 |
What puzzles me is why SMLIGHT SLZB-07 wouldn't have this problem.In my view, their hardware is identical. |
Sonoff dongles have a bootloader reset functionality hooked up the flow control lines, the driver is triggering a reset via this on opening the serial port. This wasnt a problem with the previous usb chip, but now they changed to cp2102 and it is affected by the windows driver bug. SLZB-07 has actual hard flow control, so can't be accidentally reset in the same way. |
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Sorry I dont see your comment (I dont have notification on my phone ?) |
darkxst
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Okay I try it with that URL and that work https://darkxst.github.io/cp-test/ |
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@R4fte Its the same issue, just the test site gets a little further before failing. Use on of the workarounds #107 (comment) |
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i've used the site quite a few times, but today, it just won't work
well, here's some hints from our friendly Copilot
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Hello there, I'm trying to flash a classic Sonoff to have Thread on it.
I tried on windows and Mac, but doesn't work.
I attach the log, I also tried with the python script but it didn't work for sure because of my poor Python Skill.
silabs_flasher.log
Any help would be highly apprecciated. Thanks
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