My goal is to have this click button turn on our hot water recirculation pump prior to showers vs. a timed schedule to save on energy/cut down on water waste.
Not sure how to get this to work since I can’t find the switch entity? Any advice?
If Aqara switches aren’t supported via Zigbee deCONZ I’m happy for suggestions on alternative brands.
I am not sure if it is required to stick to a brand, some do because of the esthetics and others…other reasons. In this case you will find extensive and growing support from z2m and yes, it adds both z2m and mqtt complexity if you did not have there yet, but it is worth it. Possibly ZHA also has it but I am not known to details in ZHA | Zigbee2MQTT
Sure, so I have this device Xiaomi WXKG13LM control via MQTT | Zigbee2MQTT which I’m having an issue with finding the entity of the switch side of things. I have about 18 sensors from the link you sent and those were super simple to find and integrate into automations. All are paired via deCONZ.
Where am I going off the rails here so I can try to learn?
Strangely it shows up now under devices when searching “lumi.” Within the device page I can add an automation so I figured maybe this will get me what I need. However, the automation doesn’t do anything and the logbook doesn’t show anything.
Is deconz itself showing what is being read from the device?
EDIT: you would have to check on the entity what state changes happen, might be different then what you expect
Blueprint does not recognise as it is filtering on applicable devices.So at least it works, now you only need to figure out the automation but, difficult from a distance so you have to play around a bit…when you setup the automation/saved and then press the button, do you see anything in the trace of the automation?
Honestly, my head is spinning. I didn’t make any new changes but upon you reminding me of traces I saw nothing there, clicked the button again, and then magically it all worked precisely as laid out in the YAML.
I’m on zigbee2mqtt, and I could only see the temperature and battery level until I pressed the main button for the first time. Then the actual button showed up.