Flashing Tasmota on SONOFF Zigbee Bridge Pro

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In this guide, I will walk you step by step and show you how you can flash Tasmota on Sonoff ZigBee Bridge PRO so you can use it with custom coordinator firmware.

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0:00 - Intro
01:00 - Disclaimer, and extra info
01:30 - Opening Sonoff ZB Bridge PRO
02:16 - flashing Tasmota on Sonoff ZB Bridge PRO
03:25 - Setting up Tasmota on Sonoff ZB Bridge PRO
04:15 - Expanding FS partition on Tasmota
05:30 - Uploading coordinator files on Sonoff ZB Bridge PRO
06:30 - flashing custom coordinator firmware on Sonoff ZB Bridge PRO
08:00 - adding new Zigbee devices and using Sonoff ZB Bridge PRO

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[TvistoProPro]

Thanks for all the work, from you and the Tasmota community in general. Your description of the "old way" meant I could still use that even through the current firmware is semi-broken. (The bug is filed, and they're working on it. Unfortunate that it was not working over the holiday.) Regardless, thanks to your simple guide, I have a happy working Sonoff Pro. Hours of re-linking, and it's all back and happy (plus a few sensors I couldn't add before), and the old Sonoff (non pro) flashed to the router firmware to extend the range of my system farther.

One bit you may want to include is how to backup the firmware on the router before flashing the new firmware on for the CC2652. Always good to have a backup, just in case you want to revert to factory later.

[stephanhadinger]

Awesome video. You are fast! The video was made a couple of hours after the method was available. Great job.

[ubeaut]

Good video. I just got my zigbee bridge working. I spent hours wondering why it didn't work first time as I didn't run cc.flash(). It wasn't in the video and I listened to the video after a few hours of wiping the config and starting again and hear the magic words if you have run cc.flash command. Also in your documentation it says and you don’t want a coordinator backup, run: cc.flash() which to me means I didn't want that so I didn't run it and now I know why nothing worked. Anyway I got there in the end thanks to the great video. Thanks

[wangouthangout]

The link in the blog post for the firmware doesn't work. I tried using tasmota's own web flashing tool but it installs the incorrect firmware when you get to the cc.flash() stage.

I'll work this out later, but we need an update either from tasmota or from someone in the know.

[remitops]

thanks for this. I run into one problem and that is the safeboot migration. I perform all the steps but at the end I am back at the initial situation where 4 steps state 'READY' . Where can I find a detailed run through of the steps to get Safeboot running?

[MrPeregrines]

When trying to set to 1152 I get an error message.
Any hints how to get this working?

[awolmadandy]

what would cause the permit join and zigbee map buttons to not appear on the main page?

[MatthewLiut]

How do you get the TCP server running for use in home assistant?

[RBSTERRA]

my port detect, why i cant connect for install, so tried for flash 😭, im newbiew please help

[bonamin]

Other than the great video,
what would you guys recommend I buy though ?

This Zigbee Bridge Pro, or the Zigbee Dongle ?

[DidierMisson]

Thanks for this vidéo 😃
But when flashing, I have this error :
The firmware binary is invalid (magic byte=FF, should be E9)
In your web page, you explain that now we need to flash 2 times because is too big.
But I never understand which firmware I must flash first to be able to increase the partition size 🤔

[amineandalous]

Hi, thank for the work, question : why matter menu doesn't show up in tasmota menu, isnt possible to.have both ? (Im looking for google home integration via matter) thank you for advices

[martinmacko]

Hi, thx for the effort. You manula does not work anymore in 2023. Do you maybe have update how to do it now? Files on your web cannot be found anymore and coordinator does not seem to work with latest tasmota release. Many tahanks!

[umairyounus]

Any chance you can do a video to connect this to zigbee2mqtt? I couldn't find any guide on it.

[Angelus]

Hi, I tried to follow the instructions in the article. Unfortunately the links of the firmware files are not longer working. So I searched and found a file with the same name also on the Github but not in "unofficial" but in "release" folder. But when I try to flash the file with Flashtool I get this error message: Unexpected error: The firmware binary is invalid (magic byte=FF, should be E9). Anyone can help what is the issue with this?

[skywalknotpossible]

apologies as this might not be the best forum to ask, but is this still necessary in 2024 to flash the rf bridges (sonoff / broadlink ...) to connect the devices like you have? I have the BF-315 for all my blind motors, and honestly I'm feeling confident going down the flash route unless I really have to. Thank you!

[kozaczi]

Will such flashed brigde will see sonoff snzb-02 tem&hum sensor? Or i must flashed some how each sonoff sensor too?

[Fenix]

Nice tutorial, everything went through without any problem, my sonoff bridge pro was switched to tasmota bridge and it works. Unfortunately I have a problem after some time sunoff (tasmota) stops working does not respond to ping, it is still connected to the AP receives signals from the sensors, but the IP address it received is not reachable, this happens after some time and stops responding, only restart helps and it will work for a while. Have you noticed this issue with yourselves?

[ubeaut]

Is there a video on how to make the sonoff pro a router instead of a co-ordinator? I like the zigbee2mqtt software better than tasmota zigbee software but I still want to use the sonoff pro hardware. Tasmota software works fine but zigbee2mqtt is better and easier to backup etc. Thanks

[emmastipsandtricks]

Hello everyone and thanks to the author for the Video. I don't understand why my sonoff bridge pro does not enter flash mode. Must the led on the Sonoff be green or blue? Mine is blue. I connected the GP IOO to GND but still does not turn green. Also I connected also the bridge to an USB power source still didn't worked. Any tips? Thanks