FIRSTLY. Please be patient with me. Just a home user with no programming skills. Posted this in GitHub as well but hopefully some here has a solution…
I use a Sonoff USB Zigbee dongle on Home Assistant Supervised.
Various Zigbee devices (Sonoff and Aqara)
Results with this specific Aqara varies depending on software.
ZHA
- I use ZHA because it’s simple and works with most of my Zigbee devices.
- The Aqara device is listed as compatible bit it only displays a dodgy temperature value with no switch or energy values.
- All other Sonoff and Aqara sensors work perfectly.
HOMEKIT
The native Homekit integration (when using the Aqara Hub instead of the Sonoff USB).
- It displays all info on the Aqara Cloud App
- Integration in Home Assistant shows Switch ONLY
Zigbee2MQTT
- Tried this last night and it displayed all values I needed. Looks great but…
- Worked perfect with this Aqara device but then lost some entities on my other Zigbee devices such as battery levels.
I switched back from Zigbee2MQTT to ZHA because I lost more info than I gained overall.
I would like to know if anyone succeeded in integrating this specific device and all its values in ZHA on Home Assistant without being forced to migrate to other addons just for one device.