Unable to detect Xiaomi zigbee gateway on HA running on VM on Windows

Configuration Zigbee
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I’ve been trying to detect my Xiaomi Mijia Zigbee gateway in HA, however cannot get it to detect.

My setup:

  • Running HA in a VM on Windows 10, using the VDI from the HA website here
  • Using the Xiaomi Mijia gateway. There are two versions - I’m using the v1 version (the Mijia - link here)

I enabled local network functions for the gateway per the instructions here
I have modified my configuration.yaml as below:

xiaomi_aqara:
  discovery_retry: 5
  gateways:
    - mac: 04CF8CA0F7F0
      key: f40bzw9xbbv0ztz5

Restarted HA, but get a message that the xiaomi_aqara component is not configured correctly. Also tried restarting the VM, and the Windows PC, and none of these resulted in the gateway being detected.

I have attached my log file.

I have a suspicion this has something to do with the fact I’m running on a VM, and I’ve read some posts about multicast not working properly, but I’m not really able to understand if this is related or not.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

thanks

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I would try a non-vm first to rule out. I still have 2 Xiaomi gateways v1 running fine. I bought another one and made a rookie mistake by upgrading firmware and it renders that one useless (my key keeps changing). I am slowly switching to Wyze sense but if you’re running VM, that has its own issue as well (w Wyze sense based on first user’s report).

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Yup that would be the obvious first step. Just don’t have a Raspberry Pi handy so I need to go buy one, which I will do if there aren’t any other ideas. Thx

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Update: So I setup HA on a Raspberry PI 3B+. So simple wish I’d done it earlier. Unfortunately the Xiaomi gateway still can’t be detected and I’m getting the same error message. Any other ideas?