Aqara U200 - Matter integration

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Hello

Exact same problem for me … Apple sends me a notification and whatever I try (automation through devices or entities) it doesn’t work in Homeassistant

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There is something in GitHub (new feature or issue)
https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/151310

I don’t master GitHub so not sure if a new feature or issue

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Is there anyone that knows what does the autorelock time function do? I am testing the aqara U200 Lite and using matter device integration it shows this option which i cannot relate to the app version.

BTW, something no one has reported here is that some functionalities only will show up after pinging the unit :P. While I did suceed pairing the device to my matter OPTBR (an sonoff usb-E dongle), it never showed the option to lock and unlock the door. It still cannot show status, but after sending a ping to the unit via matter integration, magically it showed the control option.

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How did you pair your lock to the Sonoff? I currently have my lock using an Amazon Echo as a OTBR which I want to get rid of and use the Sonoff instead.

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Hi Chris,
First I did flash the sonoff dongle using the official web tool to flash it as a thread coordinator device. Be aware that the device cannot be used anymore as a zigbee coordinator if that is the device primary role. Here is the link to the sonoff official guide

While I don’t remember all steps, they are reported elsewhere if you google “how to add a matter device using OTBR” (open thread border router). But this is why I did:

  1. Remove device from the aqara integration fully.
  2. Get your OTBR in place in home assistant, and this is quite of a “try and error” depending how you pair your devices. I did suceed because I have an iphone which I used to get the credentials but may be different if you pair devices using an android device.
  3. Once all above, pair the device using matter link and here I don’t remember if I did it first on the official app or on the IOS home app that never had used before.
  4. If your matter device shows up in HA, then just try to ping to it and refresh. This was usefull to me because before that, the only entity will show to me was “autorelock time function” and “push update”. Then after that ping, the entity to lock/unlock the door shows up.
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This is with a zbt-2 in Thread setup btw… still cannot see who opened/closed the lock though. That would be nice.

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Even if you cannot see the exact user that opened/closed the lock, are you able to see the method it was opened with in any of the events?

I’d like to be able to tell if it was opened by somebody manually using the indoor latch vs someone unlocking it from the outside via a valid code, fingerprint etc

Thanks

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i cant really tell, i t just says it was triggered. If you have the lock attached to homekit and then expose it via matter, you do get a message from homekit saying that another integration opened the door. So possibly this might be seen but i would not to test and testing time is limited atm. There is also a matter bridge https://matterbridge.io/ which might be usefull too. Have not tried it but will give it a shot too.

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I recently installed the U400 Aqara lock. I attached the lock to HomeKit, then exposed it via matter to HA.
The lock entity that is created exposes a “Changed By” attribute which I have successfully used in automations to take action depending on the method of unlock. My rough notes on this value that are working so far:

  • Keypad (unlocked externally with a code)
  • Alira (unlocked externally with UWB)
  • Remote (unlocked via HA or HomeKit over Matter)
  • Unknown (unlocked externally via fingerprint)
  • Unspecified (unlocked internally via latch)

Setting up an automation looking for the lock moving to a state of unlocked with conditions of the Changed By value matching these seems to work fine - for example, I am disarming my alarm automatically whenever the lock unlocks via Keypad, Remote, Alira etc but not Unspecified (so unlocking internally can’t disarm it).

The values of Unspecified vs Unknown are a bit odd - it could be because I added the fingerprint on the lock itself so it comes through as Unknown rather than a user ID I might get if I set this up via another method… but it’s working OK like this so far.