Advice on ZigBee "Sniffer"/Controller for e.g. Ikea Tradfri Homecontrol Products

I hope you may find a spare second to provide a hint for my inquiry as listed in the following:

Which ZigBee module (“XBEE” or similar?) would you recommend to access Ikea’s “Tradfri” Zigbee products?

I would like to “sniff”, ideally control, send/receive Data from/to my Ikea “Tradfri” (Zigbee controlled) products.

I look forward to hearing from you,

best regards

Marc

Hi Marc.

I’m not sure if anything we carry will be able to sniff Zigbee. One of the series 1 XBee or series 3 XBee product might be able to do this but I’m not really sure how you would configure them to get the results you’re looking for.

Thank you for your reply!

From what I have learned since posting my question:

Digi XBee should be able to connect to ZigBee products:

One needs to

  • bypass Digi XBee Application stack

  • manually control the ZigBee protocol

To make XBee work with other ZigBee devices:

  • If available: Use products’ application stacks on top of the ZigBee protocol

  • Access ZigBee via external processor to XBee

All that needs a lot of research (which I did not do yet …)