We've just bought into Vera Plus because of the exciting prospect of using Zigbee, Z-Wave and 433 simultaneously. We've got a stock of Osram Lightify lamps and I was looking forward to creating scenes to demonstrate them. But nope: They won't link to the Vera Plus.
Trying as generic Zigbee devices the Vera Plus reports that they've paired, but then errors because they cannot be configured.
Can Vera comment on the likely prospect of the Lightify Bulbs working with the Vera Plus. They pair very nicely with the Cozify Hub and with the Almond+ so they cannot have too many manufacturer specific aspects.
We have not begun integrating the Lightify bulbs. I will pass your request onto the Device Integration Team.
ZigBee is not a plug and play platform in the way that Z-Wave is setup to be. Each device requires the equivalent to a driver be created for it to work on our platform.
If ZigBee is not a plug and play platform for Vera then please, please allow developers/users to write our own ZigBee device profiles/drivers, similar to how Vera allows plugin development. This will solve this issue for both Vera and users.
ZigBee HA 1.2 certified devices use the the same predefined cluster IDs to report their various information (i.e. same cluster ID to report temperature data for example) so it's just matter of creating and then assigning the correct JSON/XML to the ZigBee device, similar to how unknown/incorrectly identified Z-Wave devices sometimes requires the user to manually assign the correct JSON/XML device profiles to make it function properly.
SmartThings allows this and that's one reason why so many developers can add nearly any kind of ZigBee/Zwave devices to it. Even non-certified ZigBee devices such as Xiaomi sensor/button/plug have been added and is working great (I have the button, which I use daily).
Please open up device profile development to developers/users.
Thanks!