If by “scenes” you mean toggling multiple lights at once, then use Z2M groups. It’ll work more reliably & faster than HA groups.
If you’re actually referring to Hue scenes (like effects & stuff), then I can’t comment since I don’t use Hue lights over here, but Z2M does has support for effects too.
What I’m getting at is - you probably won’t even need your Hue hub if you switch to Z2M.
I wrote earlier in this thread about the switch disconnecting on hold. I’m honestly getting quite annoyed that these switches do not work properly.
Whenever holding down any button it will start to send the hold request. If that hold is too long (well sometimes you wanna send the hold action for some time without having to count to 5 at the same time…) the whole switch leaves the zigbee network which is monumentally stupid. Anyone else got this to work or are the switches just completely idiotic?
Also the top buttons don’t seem to be able to send hold actions at all even in decoupled mode. So lazy to not finish the FW for an otherwise great device…
If you’re using ZHA, it might not be implemented. However the Z2M device page explicitly mentions that hold is implemented for both the top & bottom buttons
So it seems there was an update for the switch that was not showing in Z2M. I updated the firmware by connecting to the Aqara hub I had lying around. Now it seem at least the switch doesn’t reset whenever I press and hold. So that’s a good start.
Even though the multi press actions are mentioned for the upper buttons they do not happen. For the bottom buttons there are options to set multi click to enabled. But no such option exists for the top buttons…
I think this is the bare minimum but also the leds are RGB or at least multi color but with no way to change the color and or set it manually. The HW has so many unused potentials which makes me a bit sad.
To be fair, this has never been possible with any Aqara switch. Each colour represents a specific state or error.
Sad as you might be, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect something from an integration when the manufacturer never advertised or supported it under the hood
Oh that’s good to know. I have also been waiting for it. It was annoying not being able to use the hold because it would reset the switch. I don’t have an aqara hub, but hopefully I can update using the app with Bluetooth
Since you have an aqara hub, is the multi click working there for the up buttons? What about hold? Like stated above, I think that is unfortunately by design, even if theoretically possible in decoupled mode
I am not sure as I basically just connected the switch to update it. Maybe I can check this later if I find some time.
Maybe you are right you can simply update using bluetooth. Otherwise it should basically be almost free to get an E1 hub as it’s really cheap and often come in package deals. I think I have 2-3 of these in at the moment…
No, you are right. I just assumed it would be possible since one can use the app to switch the firmware between matter and zigbee. However, I checked the app, and there is no option to simply update the firmware.
It also does not seem to be possible to switch back to matter firmware without a thread border router (which I also don’t have). My theory was to switch to matter and switch back to zigbee, hoping it would install the latest.
I’ll just wait for the new firmware to be available in z2m, or maybe buy some used hub, if I happen to find one.
Someone needs to create a PR with an entry for the H2EU (lumi.switch.aeuXXX) in the OTA index before it’ll show up in Z2M.
If you managed to get the upgrade file from Aqara themselves, you could host it locally and apply the update without a hub. However, note that this is extremely risky and comes with a warning in the Z2M docs