ZigBee PRO APIs

The ZigBee PRO APIs are concerned with network-specific operations and easy interaction with the ZigBee PRO stack from the application code. These C-function APIs are supplied in the ZigBee 3.0 SDK (see Section 5.1, Development environment and resources).

There are three ZigBee PRO APIs:

ZigBee Device Objects (ZDO) API: Concerned with the management of the local device (for example, introducing the device into a network)
ZigBee Device Profile (ZDP) API: Concerned with the management of remote devices (for example, device discovery, service discovery, binding)
Application Framework (AF) API: Concerned with creating data frames for transmission and modifying device descriptors

The locations of these APIs, as well as the JCU and ZCL APIs, are illustrated in the figure below.

Locations of ZigBee 3.0 APIs

Locations of ZigBee 3.0 APIs

Note: The C functions of all the ZigBee PRO APIs are fully detailed in Part II: Reference Information of this manual.

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