New Xiaomi gateway firmware (xiaomi_aqara component)

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how do you get the key now with the updated MI home app ?

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having the same problem , did you use another andriod device ?

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Hey @Danielhiversen is it possible to set the radio of the gateway to your country and have all the smart home features working?

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Radio is not supported without some hackery to redirect the gateway calls to your own server. Search around on this forum as it was posted about before

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Searched on this forum couldn’t find it mate.

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Agree - hard to find as the search returns topics not posts.

Here is the one I meant:

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well it means I need to change the DNS server of my router to access local radio stations?

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More than that - also need some kind of server that reformat the audio to a weird format that xiaomi use

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Did you ever find the answer to this question? I’m having a hard time finding the password in the Mi Home app with the new interface…anyone know where to find it?

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Just in case anyone comes across this in the future, I think the issue was that I was selecting the US server instead of “Mainland China” (not sure what that has to do with connecting my door sensors to the gateway). Anyway, I selected “Mainland China” and then I was able to pair my sensors.

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Nevermind, found it. To see the button with the three dots you have to select your gateway first. I missed that step

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1.4.1_151 is out and its filling up the log. Everything works fine though.

ERROR (Thread-19) [PyXiaomiGateway] Non matching response. Expecting write_ack, but got read_ack
ERROR (Thread-19) [PyXiaomiGateway] No data in response from hub None

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I just got notified about new firmware …I might wanna wait then ?

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Just updated to 1.4.1_151.0143 because my thermometers vanished from HA and MIAPP (don’t know if related), and after that no problem - both gateway and devices connected to it are shown and accessible in HA 0.58.0

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Hopefully someone can help me!

I just received my xiaomi aqara set and directly connected it to home assistant. Unfortunately I run into problems:
[PyXiaomiGateway] Got error element in data {“error”:“Invalid key”}
Home Assistant is updated to current version 59.2
The firmware on the gateway also was updated to latest version.1.4.1_151.0143
My setup:
I run ubuntu on a NUC with docker and portainer installed. Home Assistant runs in a docker.
the configuration part of home assistant:

xiaomi_aqara:
gateways:
- host: 192.168.1.24
mac: 28:6c:07:f1:xx:xx
key: 2av21502esxxxxxx
(discovery I have turned off.)

When opening home assistant, I nicely see all the connected sensors and devices. Happy so far!
However, when sending a command to the plug, or gateway, it returns the ‘invalid key’ error (which I checked and changed already at least 10 times, including resets)

Then I checked if the port (udp 9898, was open). Still fine
I have a Netgear R7000 Nighthawk, which should support multicast, all seems good

After spending a whole afternoon I ran out of inspiration on how to fix this.

Anybody can help?

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Try changing the mac so it does not have : between and change the key to uppercase:

mac: 286c07f1xxxx
key: 2AV21502ESXXXXXX
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Tried with no luck

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Unfortunately probably this means either your router or HA device is not capable of handling multicast packets.

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Any way to verify this? I would be surprised if the router is the issue, maybe less surprised with the NUC

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I solved it. Errellion’s answer sent me to the right direction.
By simple adding the following rules to iptables and a restart it works now:

iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp -j ACCEPT

which surprises me, since I thought I added some rules for port 9898 udp and tcp before. (assumptions…)