Xiaomi gateway not found

Configuration
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Hi,

I am a newbie and I am trying to install the hass on my windows laptop to give it a try. I have a full range of Xiaomi devices & GW.
I have the Xiaomi Mi Gateway and not the Aqara one.
Firmware: 1.4.1_161.0143

I followed the instruction for the installation:

  • Installing Python virtual enviroment
C:\...\> py -m venv homeassistant
C:\...\> cd homeassistant
C:\...\> Scripts\activate.bat
C:\...\> py -m pip install wheel setuptools pip
C:\...\> py -m pip install homeassistant

But when I execute the
C:\...\> hass
I get the following:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘win32api’
2019-01-07 10:10:36 INFO (SyncWorker_4) [xiaomi_gateway] Gateway discovery finished in 5 seconds
2019-01-07 10:10:36 ERROR (SyncWorker_4) [homeassistant.components.xiaomi_aqara] No gateway discovered
2019-01-07 10:10:37 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup of domain xiaomi_aqara took 5.1 seconds.
2019-01-07 10:10:37 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for xiaomi_aqara: Component failed to initialize.

Browsing around, it seems I need to have a configuration.yaml file. I couldn’t find that file in the homeassistant folder. I have the following structure of the folder

Include folder
Lib folder
Scripts folder
pyenv.cfg

What shall I do at this stage? How & where can I have the configuration.yaml?

Thanks a lot in advance
Moh

2

I am no Windows guy, but maybe try this:

3

Thank you dear,
I can see that it has recognized some of my devices (in bold) but still getting the same error. I have found the location of configuration.yaml %APPDATA%/.homeassistant
How can I define my GW then?

2019-01-07 10:37:48 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.xiaomi_aqara] Discovering Xiaomi Gateways (Try 1)
2019-01-07 10:37:50 ERROR (SyncWorker_12) [homeassistant.components.light.yeelight] Failed to connect to bulb 172.21.1.109, yeelight_strip_7811dca229a2: A socket error occurred when sending the command.
2019-01-07 10:37:53 ERROR (SyncWorker_3) [homeassistant.components.light.yeelight] Failed to connect to bulb 172.21.1.111, yeelight_strip_7811dc6917ad: A socket error occurred when sending the command.
2019-01-07 10:37:53 INFO (SyncWorker_8) [xiaomi_gateway] Gateway discovery finished in 5 seconds
2019-01-07 10:37:53 ERROR (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.xiaomi_aqara] No gateway discovered
2019-01-07 10:37:53 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup of domain xiaomi_aqara took 5.1 seconds.
2019-01-07 10:37:53 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for xiaomi_aqara: Component failed to initialize.

4

Have you checked the docs?

5

Yes I have added the below, but still seems not able to recognize it

xiaomi_aqara:
  discovery_retry: 5
  gateways:
   - key: xxxxxxxxx

and

xiaomi_aqara:
  discovery_retry: 5
  gateways:
   - host: 172.21.1.112
     key: xxxxxxxxxx

I am getting the following:

2019-01-07 11:01:05 INFO (SyncWorker_10) [homeassistant.components.xiaomi_aqara] Discovering Xiaomi Gateways (Try 2)
2019-01-07 11:01:09 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup of xiaomi_aqara is taking over 10 seconds.
2019-01-07 11:01:10 INFO (SyncWorker_10) [xiaomi_gateway] Gateway discovery finished in 5 seconds
2019-01-07 11:01:10 INFO (SyncWorker_10) [homeassistant.components.xiaomi_aqara] Discovering Xiaomi Gateways (Try 3)
2019-01-07 11:01:15 INFO (SyncWorker_10) [xiaomi_gateway] Gateway discovery finished in 5 seconds
2019-01-07 11:01:15 INFO (SyncWorker_10) [homeassistant.components.xiaomi_aqara] Discovering Xiaomi Gateways (Try 4)
2019-01-07 11:01:20 INFO (SyncWorker_10) [xiaomi_gateway] Gateway discovery finished in 5 seconds
2019-01-07 11:01:20 INFO (SyncWorker_10) [homeassistant.components.xiaomi_aqara] Discovering Xiaomi Gateways (Try 5)
2019-01-07 11:01:25 INFO (SyncWorker_10) [xiaomi_gateway] Gateway discovery finished in 5 seconds
2019-01-07 11:01:25 ERROR (SyncWorker_10) [homeassistant.components.xiaomi_aqara] No gateway discovered
2019-01-07 11:01:25 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup of domain xiaomi_aqara took 25.9 seconds.
2019-01-07 11:01:25 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for xiaomi_aqara: Component failed to initialize.
2019-01-07 11:01:25 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Home Assistant initialized in 26.67s
2019-01-07 11:01:25 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Starting Home Assistant

Does it mean it recognized the GW?

the logs keep on going and then it hangs on the following:
ata\Local\Temp\pip-record-tqddh0pr\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers c:\windows\system32\homeassistant\include\site\python3.7\curve25519-donna" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\MOHAME~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-ls9s4uho\curve25519-donna\
2019-01-07 11:01:51 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.requirements] Not initializing apple_tv because could not install requirement pyatv==0.3.12
2019-01-07 11:01:51 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for apple_tv: Could not install all requirements.
2019-01-07 11:01:51 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.light] Setting up light.yeelight
2019-01-07 11:01:51 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.light] Setting up light.yeelight
2019-01-07 11:01:53 ERROR (SyncWorker_9) [homeassistant.components.light.yeelight] Failed to connect to bulb 172.21.1.109, yeelight_strip_7811dca229a2: A socket error occurred when sending the command.
2019-01-07 11:01:55 ERROR (SyncWorker_13) [homeassistant.components.light.yeelight] Failed to connect to bulb 172.21.1.111, yeelight_strip_7811dc6917ad: A socket error occurred when sending the command.
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nope - it failed to find it

have a look at Xiaomi Gateway and Hass.io - #3 by RolfKoenders - there have been issues with multicast support for some people.

Are these direct or via the xiaomi gateway?

Given you are running this on a windows machine, consider checking what windows firewall is doing (and blocking…)

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  discovery_retry: 10
  gateways:
    - mac: 
      key: xxxxxxxxxxx

Try this, had the same struggle…

8

Oh and funny fact: VPN messes your system up. Xiaomi won’t be found if ur HA device has VPN enabled.

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Regarding the VPN issue, that is because everything is then routed via the gateway of the VPN. You can still use the VPN, but you will have to create a static route to force the multicast traffic to your lan gateway.

10

I get this happen to me a but, but its fairly intermittent.

When it happens, the only option i have is to restart to xiaomi gateway. Nothing else works. I can ping it, connect to it on the relevant ports, etc – but HA just wont find it.