Hi all, new here and trying to get my Hive SLR1 receiver and SLT3b thermostat connected to HA using Zigbee2MQTT (I could live without the thermostat but I believe it’s needed). I had it working with HA via the official Hive integration previously, but since I have set up a zigbee network (Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus) I would like to control it directly. Eventually I want to set up some automations but for now I’d be satisfied with just having a thermostat control (manual temp change) and heating history (actual temp) on my lovelace dashboard.
I first tried following this guide from @Burgess101 that involved adding yaml files to my configuration. That paired both devices with Zigbee2MQTT, but I couldn’t interact with the heating in any way from HA and the thermostat stayed in pairing mode.
I also tried installing @codechimp 's extension, as it sounds like the info from MQTT is garbled somehow and this helps it? but also didn’t seem to solve the problem.
So then I found this topic which has a similar problem to me (though it’s an SLR1b rather than my SLR1). In that, @andyb2000 suggests that I need to pair the SLR3b ‘via’ the SLT1. I’m not really sure what that means! He says
On ZHA (or similar), select the boiler device you added earlier, now click “ADD DEVICES VIA THIS DEVICE” - the Thermostat must be connected to the ZigBee network via the boiler receiver we added earlier
I don’t use ZHA but I gather that Zigbee2MQTT which I am using is similar? Because @rahulpuk said…
Thanks, this process also worked for me on Zigbee2Mqtt.
But, but but…
I have connected up the receiver to Zigbee2MQTT, and in the device (under MQTT) it says:
Heating thermostat (SLR1)
by Hive
Connected via Zigbee2MQTT Bridge
However, I don’t see any possible way to connect a device to another Zigbee device?
After connecting to Zigbee2MQTT, the receiver went into long single orange flash. Where I am now is, I have put my SLR1 receiver back into pairing mode (double orange flashing), and my SLT3b thermostat is saying “Searching… 23mins” and my wife is cold and grumpy and her exact words are “why can’t we just have a normal house”.
Please help before I am removed from the home assistant community!!!