Aqara Mini Switch / Zigbee setup

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I am new to the Zigbee / ZHA world, and am a bit stuck …

I have plugged a Sonoff Zigbee USB stick in to my HA NUC, added the ZHA integration to HA, and added an Aqara Mini Switch.

But when I add an Automation (within the Integration, not within the “main” HA Automations section), nothing happens.

Taking this as an example, what might I be doing wrong? The device light.tall_lamp is a Hue bulb, and I am able to control it via my usual dashboard.

It could well be that I have not set up the switch correctly rather than made an error with the coding - but not sure where to start …

TIA

alias: New Automation Tall Lamp
description: ""
trigger:
  - device_id: a3f9cbb24f18b9a67de18761c8e44a86
    domain: zha
    platform: device
    type: remote_button_short_press
    subtype: remote_button_short_press
condition: []
action:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: 49d2ca499d1f4555b7e6f83db04b0da3
    entity_id: light.tall_lamp
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: 100
mode: single

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To add - if I select “RUN” within the automation, the light goes on and off as desired, so it looks like it is a communication / integration / hardware issue and not a coding problem. But how to determine what needs fixing?

TIA

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I’m guessing you are puzzled because there is no state information for your ‘switch’ in the device info?

What you have is technically a momentary button. It doesn’t have a state - it’s not on or off. It does fire events though - which is why the automation works.

This is different to, say, a light switch which typically toggles on and off and stays in the on or off position. Because of this such a switch will have a state.

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Thanks @templeton_nash - I understand what you are saying, but the automation only works if I select (ie click on) “RUN” - it does not work if I press the button. So there is a lack of communication between the button and HA, but this is the first time I have used Zigbee or ZHA, and can’t work out why :cold_sweat:

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I use a Blueprint to work with my Aqara button. Maybe you could give it a try. I use this one.

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Thanks again, @templeton_nash . I dug a bit deeper and saw that the button was “Offline”, so took the back off & re-paired it, and it now works perfectly. And now even the battery state shows up - Double Plus Good.

I can see that these Aqara switches are going to become quite addictive too!

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I paired my Aqara Mini Switch with Zigbee2MQTT and imported the blueprint. When I try to create an automation, however, the pulldown menu for Device is empty so I cannot assign this to a button.

What am I missing?

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I’m a little new on HA using ZHA and have setup a lot of aqara door and motion sensors on Alarmo and it all works fine. When I pair the Aqara Mini Switch only see Battery (as a lot of people). I imported your Blueprint from github and that all went well. I see it on my Blueprint list in UI. I clicked on create animation for it and filled out the form with the button device. Wasn’t sure how to fill out the Action. I selected Event and saved. Went to dev tools events and looked for zha event. Pressed the button and see no event. I’m sure I messed something up. Can you help on this? Thanks

Update: Found solution, use the aqara_zigbee_button.yaml blueprint!

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For me it worked, if I don’t try to setup an automation starting from the blueprint, but from the device itself.
So go to the device page and click in the automations tile on the “+”. There you can select the event and assign an action to it. Nothing needs to be setup in the blueprint at all.

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