Is The Philips Hue Entertainment Zigbee Extension Implemented In Z2M?

[danieledwardgeorgehitchcock]

I have been following this project for a while now, and have also contributed from time-to-time for new devices.

I am curious to know whether the custom behaviour / zigbee extenstion that Philips introduced for their Entertainment functionality has been implemented / can be replicated - I have looked through the issue history and cannot find anything definitive.

Here is a link to a Philips blog post which describes this custom behaviour (not sure that this can be viewed without a login).

The important part is:

1. The command packages together the target state of up to 10 light channels in a custom Zigbee message.
   This message is sent as a unicast over the mesh network to an automatically chosen proxy node in the target entertainment room.
2. This proxy node sends out a non-repeating low level MAC layer broadcast which all nearby lights will hear.
3. The nearby lights unbundle the message and act on their states.
4. Since the command is unicasting together with MAC broadcasts, we can stream commands 25 times per second to any light in the home whilst still creating spatial effects across multiple lights, all without causing network congestion.

Additionally, the mechanism has no retries, which benefits an entertainment setting where synchronization is critical: for example, a delayed frame from an explosion in an action movie is worse than skipping the frame entirely.

[Koenkk]

This is not supported and I don't know if this can be supported in the future. I guess it depends if the coordinator firmwares allows us to send such low level messages. You can start by sniffing the traffic of this: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/how_tos/how_to_sniff_zigbee_traffic.html

[sofakng]

I'm also extremely interested in this. I've just purchased a Zigbee stick (zzh!) to experiment with, but I use Hue Entertainment mode a lot so I'm not quite ready to convert over. I wish Hue would provide implementation details so this could be implemented elsewhere...

[adrianipopescu]

sorry to necro this thread, but has there been any progress from device manufacturers / firmware devs / support in general on this topic?