I am trying to add my aqara gateway to my Home Assistant configuration but I am constantly receiving an error message. Unfortunately I have not been able to identify my key, but as I understand this should be optional in the configuration and from the error messages it does not look like this is the problem either….
This is what I have currently added to my configuration.yaml (MAC address hashed)
xiaomi_aqara:
gateways:
- mac: ############
and below are the entries I can see in the log when restarting my device. Does anyone have any suggestions what I should try next?
Setup failed for xiaomi_aqara: Integration failed to initialize.
9:04:56 PM – setup.py (ERROR)
No gateway discovered
9:04:56 PM – xiaomi_aqara (ERROR)
Setup of xiaomi_aqara is taking over 10 seconds.
9:04:51 PM – __main__.py (WARNING)
Key is not provided for gateway ############. Controlling the gateway will not be possible
9:04:41 PM – xiaomi_aqara (WARNING)
According to the documentation you are linking to (and I also have read up and down many times already ), the key should actually be ‘optional’. Secondly when I look at the error messages from the log, it says that as the key is not provided I will not be able to ‘control the gateway’ - which is fine as I for now am only looking at reading data.
In regards to the MAC address I have tried both with and without, as well as all other tweaks and combinations I can think of…
It can very well be that you are correct and the ‘key’ is actually mandatory, contrary to what the documentation says. However as I am struggling to find this ‘key’ through the methods described online, I just wanted to check here if anyone else have managed to get this to work without having the ‘key’.
As mentioned I have tried both with and without the MAC address, without any success. Anyway I will continue to dig and maybe I will stumble across a working solution.
Anyway thank you for trying to help!
), the key should actually be ‘optional’. Secondly when I look at the error messages from the log, it says that as the key is not provided I will not be able to ‘control the gateway’ - which is fine as I for now am only looking at reading data.