ESP32P4 with C6 zigbee

[robin2906]

Hi guys,

I saw that the esp32c6 support zigbee, so my question is, will the esp32p4 support zigbee (i saw that the p4 can be connected to ble and wifi through the c6) ?

Best regards,

[ahsrabrifat]

The ESP32-P4 can use IPC (inter-processor communication) to talk to the C6 over SPI/UART. Offload Zigbee or Thread networking to the ESP32-C6, which handles the wireless stack. Work as the main application processor, while the C6 acts as the connectivity co-processor.
This setup is similar to how host-MCU + wireless co-processor designs work in many IoT systems.

[robin2906]

Hi @ahsrabrifat ,

Thanks for the clarifications

As far as i know Zigbee with the P4 by the C6 is not yet support in esp idf, or did i missed something ?

To be precise i can connect the P4 to the WIFI easily because espressif provide all the software necessary to control the c6 but with zigbee the user shall implement it all by itself right ?

Best regards,

[ahsrabrifat]

You can use ESP-IDF’s host-controller architecture (like the esp_hosted or esp-at projects) to easily offload Wi-Fi and BLE from the C6 and control it from the P4. There is no official Espressif software stack yet that lets the ESP32-P4 control Zigbee/Thread on the ESP32-C6 via a ready-to-use inter-processor protocol (like AT commands or HCI). That means you must implement your own protocol stack or messaging interface.

[chegewara]

I know the topic is about zigbee, but i would like to clarify info about thread.

Recently espressif added support for open thread border router on P4
https://github.com/espressif/esp-thread ... 2893233649

[Gerard]

Hi guys,

I saw that the esp32c6 support zigbee, so my question is, will the esp32p4 support zigbee (i saw that the p4 can be connected to ble and wifi through the c6) ?

Best regards,

Hi @robin2906 , did you get anywhere using the esp32p4 with zigbee?

[real_mon2]

Here is a good tutorial on how to run zigbee on the -C6 foundation:

https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/xiao_esp32 ... e_arduino/