Hi guys,
I don’t have any previous experience with smart home devices. A few weeks ago I got an iHost + SWV from Sonoff to automate watering the grass. In the meantime, I found Home Assistant on iHost and I like the app a lot, especially since I managed to add some devices that we had been using in a “dumb” way so far (Ariston boiler, Xiaomi air purifier, and vacuum cleaner) 
What I couldn’t add is Sonoff’s native device, the Smart Water Valve, which I paired without any problems with the iHost native system. All my attempts to add this device to HA have failed… eWeLink, Matters, Homebridge…
I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong, if this device isn’t supported anywhere, or if I need an extra device – which doesn’t really make sense because I understood that iHost is a HUB… that’s what they say on their website…
Also, the MQTT broker eclipse-mosquitto docker container doesn’t seem to work because I can’t connect to it… again, maybe I’m doing something wrong since I really don’t have much experience with these apps (and even though I use about 20 Docker containers on QNAP, so I’m not a complete beginner, I managed to set up a Python Matter Server on QNAP and pair it with iHost, but Sonoff SWV isn’t supported…
I also thought about buying a few Aqara H1 EU (no neutral) switches that also use Zigbee… but now I’m not sure if these devices will be able to connect to iHost and thus to HA.
Any advice is welcome, thanks thanks thanks in advance.
EDIT:
Maybe this will be useful to someone, but in my case, the Open API solved the problem…
It requires writing a custom integration in Python. I wrote the code specifically for the device I can test—switches, sensors, etc.
If anyone needs something specific for the Sonoff SWV, it will be added to opunadopu · GitHub once I complete the full integration.