Hello,
I’m fairly new to Home Assistant so I hope someone can point me the right way.
I’ve started down the path of using Zigbee devices for my network and recently bought an Aqara H2 switch with 2 buttons. The first button is physical while the second is ‘wireless’. I managed to switch it to Zigbee mode (didn’t want to try to get into Matter yet) and pair it with my SMLight Zigbee Coordinator.
I’m able to see and use the physical switch fine in HA, however I don’t find a way to use the wireless button. I assumed that I would be able to create an automation to switch on other lights or whatever sequence of events I wanted. I assumed I would see an event fired when the switch is clicked but nothing is logged/shown.
In researching this it kind of seems like I need to write a custom quirk to be able to use the second button (I don’t have an Aqara hub).
I’ve been playing around with this but I cannot get the custom quirk to work. I think I have it right but even after following all the info I found it doesn’t seem like it’s picking up the custom quirk at all.
Anyway, I was wondering if I’m going down the right path or if there are other solutions? I can post the quirk I put together and more info. I understand that maybe using Zigbee2MQTT might support this switch but I’m still trying to understand what this fundamentally means to me. I would prefer to stick to ZHA since I started that way.
Thanks.