I hope someone can shed some light on this, I have an Aqara wall switch installed to control some “dumb” lights in my kitchen. This one:
I paired it with deCONZ (running latest beta for ubuntu 2.05.02). It shows up in the UI like so :
Using the UI I can turn the lights on and off using the EXEC function.
However, I can’t get it to appear in the Homeassistant UI, it’s not listed in PWA or the other web ui. All the other devices (there re about 30, including lamps and switches from ikea and philips) show up fine.
This is normal behavior. The switches does not show up as entities in the Hass UI. They appear as events named "deconz_events. See the Deconz component documentation for “Remote control devices”
And they do not show up in Phoscon or the web UI either. If you want to verify that they are properly recognized you can check the Deconz Rest API directly:
http://<deconz ip>/api/<api key>/sensors/
This should give you a list including the Aqara switches as type=“ZHASwitch”
I checked the API and all the ikea and philips switches, including the ikea motion detectors are there but the Xiamo isn’t listed. How can this be, as it’s visible and controlable in the UI?
Is the device still listed in the Deconz UI as 0x393F? That is not correct, and you’ll have to re-pair it. It should show with a more “human readable” name (like “Switch xx”) when it is fully paired. Until that happens it will not show up in the Rest API. I’ve found that to finalize the pairing of Aqara devices, it helps to actually trigger the device (e.g. pressing the button on the switch) just after it appear in Deconz.
