The Aeotec Zi-Stick is a USB Zigbee 3.0 gateway for your home automation system and smart home, allowing you to run a Zigbee network on a Raspberry Pi, PC or even a Macbook.
Once installed and set up on your chosen home automation platform, such as Home Assistant, openHAB, Zigbee2MQTT, FHEM, Node-RED, io Broker or Jeedom, you can start communicating with Zigbee sensors, switches and other Zigbee devices.
The Zi-Stick is one of the smallest and most powerful Zigbee Sticks on the market. It can be used with thousands of Zigbee devices from almost any brand: Philips Hue, Osram, Iris, Ikea Tradfri, Xiaomi, Aqara and many more.
Aeotec Zi-Stick is equipped with state-of-the-art Zigbee technology from Silicon Labs. Using the Zigbee MCU EFR32MG21A020, this chipset is considered one of the best-performing Zigbee chips on the market. Zi-Stick hardware is Thread-ready and will be upgradeable via a future firmware update. With this future update, Zi-Stick will be able to control Thread Matter-based devices.
Features
- USB Zigbee gateway stick
- Zigbee technology
- 2.4GHz globally recognized frequency
- Zigbee-compatible microcontroller EFR32MG21 inside
- Rx sensitivity: -99dBm
- Max Tx Power: 20dBm
- Open area range: 200m
- USB interface with standard NCP commands from Silicon Labs
- Easy to use as Serial Port on the Host machine (PC/laptop/single board computers)
- Multiple plugins for openHAB, Home Assistant, Node-RED, DIY platforms, C, Node.js, and Python libraries to build your own application
Specifications
- Name: Zi-Stick
- Model Number: ZGA008
- EAN: 1220000017191
- Product Weight: 3.5g
- Product Dimensions: 37 x 17 x 8.5 mm
- Package Dimensions: 50 x 65 x 20 mm
- Zigbee Chip: EFR32MG21
- Zigbee Version: Zigbee 3.0
- Zigbee Frequency: 2.4 GHz
- Other protocols Can be updated to a Thread Stick through Firmware Update to control Thread Matter-based devices.
- Power Supply: USB DC 4.75V to 5.25V
- Sensitivity of the RF receiver:
- TX Power: +20 dBm
- RX sensitivity: -99 dBm
- Recommended host current: 50mA
- Known compatibilities:
- Tested to be compatible with Raspberry Pi / BeagleBone
- Tested to be compatible with Windows 10/11 OS
- Tested to be compatible with Linux OS
- Tested to be compatible with OSX OS
- Operating Temperature: 0°C to 40°C / 40°F to 104°F
- Storage Temperature: -20 C to 70 C / -4°F to 158°F
- Operating Distance: 200m max distance (clean open air)
Resources
- User guide
- Setup Zi-Stick with Home Assistant
- Setup Zi-Stick with OpenHAB
- Update Zi-Stick to Thread or Zigbee with Python 3.9 and Windows
Drivers for Zi-Stick
Typically you do not need to install drivers, most operating systems will have the drivers necessary to run the Zi-Stick. But in some cases, these drivers may not be installed on some OS systems, you can find the serial bridge drivers here.
Package Contents
- 1x Aeotec Zi-Stick
Raspberry Pi not included



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