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Quick start.

The following will step you through using Zi-Stick when it is attached to a host controller (PC) as a primary controller.

Please make sure the host controller is pre-installed; this includes any drivers that the corresponding OS may need. In

most cases, the host controller automatically installs the required USB drivers.

If not, the USB driver can be downloaded from

found here:

SiLabs CP2102N Driver

drivers)

1. Plug Zi-Stick into a host controller (that can be a PC, Mac, RPi, etc).

• Windows - Open up "Ports (COM & LPT" under Device Manager. The Zi-Stick shows as a COMX device

(where X can be a number value range of 0 - 1000).

• Linux - under your command prompt, type in "dmesg | grep tty" which will give you a list of all tty devices

connected. Zi-Stick will show as a "ttyUSB0" device.

• OSX - Choose Apple > System Preferences, then click "Network". You can find Zi-Stick as a USB Modem

device "/dev/cu.usbmodem".

2. Open the selected third-party software. You can find some instructions for some popular third-party software here:

◦ Home Assistant setup and installation

◦ OpenHAB setup and installation

3. Following your third-party software instructions for connecting a ZigBee USB adapter. Select the COM or virtual

port Zi-Stick is associated with. (You can refer to home assistant and openHAB setup articles in the section

"Current compatible software and setup guides").

In most cases, any devices already paired with Zi-Stick network will automatically show up in the software's interface, it

may require you to rescan the Zi-Stick in order to re-detect devices it has not detected before.

www.silabs.com

(https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-

(https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/)

(https://www.openhab.org/docs/installation/)

(https://www.silabs.com/)

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