Aqara mini switch into homekit via homekit bridge

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Hi Forum,

I have an aqara mini switch WXKG11LM. I have added the devices to HA via MQTT and zigbee2MQTT using a sonoff Dongle. The device shows up in my zigbee2MQTT frontend as well as in MQTT broker integration in HA as shown in screenshot however as you can see, it does not show up as a button. It shows two diagnostic entites for temp and battery and others which are disabled.

my use case here is to setup homekit bridge and use that to add this device into homekit. However this device does not show up in the list for entities for me to be able to add to homekit bridge. The button works, as I have created a test automation in HA itself. However I want to bring it into homekit and setup some automation there.

does any one have any insight into this? or knows what Im doing wrong if anything?

As a side note I have enabled “Home Assistant legacy action sensors” , in zigbee2mqtt, which lets this device show up as an event entity. However still no way to select it to be imported using homekit bridge into homekit.

I also do use homebridge application and when i bring them into homebridge using the zigbee2mqtt plugin , the button is imported into homekit just fine . just FYI

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@jakeshbazi did you ever manage to figure this out? I have the exact same issue. I’d like to push my Aqara mini switch into HomeKit from HA to trigger some HomeKit automations but not seeing any way to get the button across with the bridge.

Do we have to use an Aqara Hub to get the button across?

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Also searching for a solution for passing the Aqara Mini Switch to HomeKit. The Aqara switch works fine in HA via Zigbee2MQTT, but I don’t know how to get it to show up in HomeKit.

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Ok, I figured out a method… not sure if it’s the best way, but it works! I created a “Helper” toggle (Input Boolean entity type). Then I created an automation that toggles the Helper when I do a “single” action on the Aqara Mini Switch. Then I configured the HomeKit Bridge to pass through “Input Boolean”, and voila, it shows up in HomeKit and I can use it for HomeKit automations.

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