i have curtains 3 visible in HA via switchbot bluetooth. i can see the status but the action buttons do nothing. i think they just time out. any ideas?
IIRC and IIUC, SwitchBot supports Matter just in their gateway, which still communicates with the SwitchBot devices just by Bluetooth. Not sure if you can connect the gateway to HA via Matter. (I have no SwitchBot gateway and no Matter in HA.)
If you think the device always times out, you can bring it closer to the Bluetooth adapter. If it starts working then, it is probably just signal strength.
Have you calibrated the SwitchBot Curtain via their app? Not sure, but I think you cannot control it in HA before the calibration.
What BT adapter do you have?
hmm. i can’t imagine it’s signal strength, the bluetooth dongle is quite close. i tried a new dongle and it works, but the initial connection time is extremely slow. subsequent commands are fast. i have a Switchbot Hub Mini E2 but I can’t work out if it supports matter or not
Thinking of getting these, but i dont have a switchbot hub, do these work with home assistant without a swittchbot hub? I usually buy aqara stuff. But its double the price of the switchbot curtain closers
Yes it works without, though your HA must then have some Bluetooth capabilities. I use a Bluetooth Proxy from M5Stack.