Dear all friend. need help to locate my Zigbee device in HA-UI.
I am using Pi4, running Hass.os, and Iam using HA-UI for everything as I do not know how to use “sudo” command.
I have struggled for a week to learn how to,
Flash CC2531 dongle
Setup Mosquito MQTT addon through HA interface.
Setup a user/password and confiqure MQTT correctly in HA interface.
Setup Zigbee2MQTT addon through HA manual repository.
Configure Zigbee2MQTT to make sure no error message in log file.
Put a zigbee device (zigbee on/off relay,supported device) into pairing mode and get paired by Zigbee2MQTT.
It shows interviewed, accepted and Device ID was created.
I got the above all successfully done and all log file did say so.
(Every step is very steep learning curve for me. )
Now the problem is,
a. I could not find the newly linked device.
b. How do I find and use it? (I just want to create a button to activate the new device).
c. Please let me know what is missing?
Please note that the initial Device ID was (0x00124b001cd60775), but I manually use samba to access \share\Zigbee2MQTT\ devices.yaml to change it to a friendly name…“zigbee_switch”
Question 1:
All process seems correct, but the problem is I can’t find this switch in HA, please help.
If you need more information, please do request, I will provide ASAP…Thanks
I also follow instruction to create these boolean switches and sensor in HA configuration.yaml to make a card to control the MQTT “join allow/disallow”
Question2:
my “Bridge State” is always shown “unavailable”, Not sure why?
they would be available on the topic zigbee2mqtt/[devicename]
The device name will be its ID or its friendly name if you’re set on up in your zigbee2mqtt config
That’s provided the base_topic set up in zigbee2mqtt is actually zigbee2mqtt. Check your config
Hi, thanks for quick response.
I am not a very advanced user for Homeassistant, in fact I am still very new to HA.
I usually use Picture element, and learn a few code from the default card or badges. I usually just edit the default card.
I normally just add devices that come from the HA drop down list.
But for this case, I couldn’t find this new device anywhere, like under configuration, device or entities.
Could you please help me with more specific on how to get this device appear?
Sorry that I could not figure out with your advice on “topic zigbee2mqtt/[devicename]”
And may I know what is “base_topic set up in zigbee2mqtt”
If you could please help to draft a simple few line code so that I could follow like this?
Thanks in advanced.
You should not have the zigbee integration set up since you’re using zigbee2mqtt else you may have a clash with 2 applications trying to access the zigbee device…
Sounds like you’ve done the setup correctly (you may want to remove those pics showing your username and password btw)
Thanks @lolouk44 , replaced pics with dummy username/password.
I will try to remove the 2 integration, and check what happen.
As for now, I cannot find the new switch anywhere in HA.
No, after removing the integrations, the switch still does not appear.
After restart HA, the MQTT integration re-appear again, I tried to remove 2times, it seems like not installed by me.
the mqtt integration probavly shows up because you’ve installed the mosquitto mqtt broker add-on
Can you try a tool like mqtt explorer to make sure you’re getting the info showing up?
all I can think is that you’re not connecting to the correct broken at either side.
Hi @lolouk44, thanks for your prompting and questioning, in the process I solve my own problem.
After I delete the 2 integration,
The MQTT integration re-appear again…
3.Then I tried to delete it one more time. Without restart HA, I tried to add MQTT Integration again, and this time round, a dialog pop up and ask for information. And I input
