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[AlexKusnezov]

Hey guys,
stumbling upon this project got me really excited, especially with efr32 primary supported.
My setup is currently Home assistant with ZHA and everything in docker on an rpi4 8gb ram with slzb-06m over ethernet.
Is there an way to run ziggurat also as a docker container?
Would it also be possible to use my slzb-06m over ethernet?

[puddly]

Sure, you can directly run the HA Addon as a plain Docker container: https://github.com/zigpy/addons/blob/dev/ziggurat/DOCS.md#running-standalone-plain-docker

Would it also be possible to use my slzb-06m over ethernet?

It's possible (as of #39) but round trip latency with TCP will slow down everything and isn't really something I've directly tested. The performance will be worse than a local connection to the radio (e.g. more retries, missed packets, and so on).

I think in the future the better approach would be to run Ziggurat on the ESP32 half of the SLZB-06M. Ziggurat is capable of running directly on an ESP32 and in theory should be able to communicate over UART to the Silicon Labs radio on your device.

[AlexKusnezov]

Thanks for the hint.

I think in the future the better approach would be to run Ziggurat on the ESP32 half of the SLZB-06M. Ziggurat is capable of running directly on an ESP32 and in theory should be able to communicate over UART to the Silicon Labs radio on your device.

What will be the point of doing that? I thought the main benefit is to be able to run it on the host machine to have all the performance and ram benefits

[tube0013]

I've looked at various firmware builders for the SLZB-06M and I don't think any have firmware with hardware flow enabled possibly because the device isn't "wired" up to support it. While I've not tested thread/ziggurat with a SI Labs module using SW Flow, I did use a TI CC2652 with rcp with thread for a while over tcp and the experience was really bad, I initially thought it was the cc2652 but now think it's more related to not having hardware flow. The HW flow allows a much more forgiveness with some of the issues puddly is mentioning.