[Zigbee] How to include more information into reporting?

[olili]

Already started to ask here #12242 (comment).

I don't understand the answer. I learnt that it is not compliant to have more than 1 one (analogue) cluster (!) of the same type per Endpoint. Looking to my zigbee devices I see that most of them have only one endpoint and limited number of clusters and provide/report more values then the number of clusters.
How is this done?
By the attribute mechanism?
How can I do something similar with espressif zigbee library for arduino?

Thx in adcance, O.

[P-R-O-C-H-Y]

Hi @olili, if standart cluster is used, there can be only 1 instance in single EP as I explained before.
What you may see on some purchased Zigbee products is, that they use custom clusters (manufacturer clusters) and they can do anything as they don't follow the standart rules. But same will be that there can be only 1 custom cluster with same ID in a single EP.

If you have any specific device you are trying to mirror with ESP and Zigbee library, feel free to send the quirk or config file with the list of clusters/EPs the device have. I can take a look.

[olili]

thx & got it.
Had once more a deeper look into my exisitng devices.
And it is as you told - either standard clusters per endpoint or manufacture cluster.

Is there any plan to include manufacture clusters into the arduino libs? O.

[P-R-O-C-H-Y]

There is no plan to include manufacturers clusters, as now we most of the standard clusters, which works out-of-the-box with HA(ZHA). Manufacturers cluster would require manual configuration of the device (quirks). If you need that you can use the ESP-IDF and esp-zigbee-sdk directly.