Aqara Mini Switch not recognised

[urban girder]

The Aqara Mini Switch is not being recognised in HomeKit, everything else is.

Any solution?

[tall ledge]

Sorry, I asked the same question days ago and got no answer. Is it the same for you, where it pairs with the system fine but HA simply doesn't see any button presses?

[urban girder]

It sees the button presses but doesn’t expose the button to HomeKit

[tall ledge]

Ah my bad. I misread. My apologies.

[floral vessel]

I have a similar problem. I installed the Aqara Wireless Mini Switch and integrated it in HA through Matter. I finally figured out the button press is an "Event" so you have to use an Attribute of Event Type to get the button to trigger as shown:

[tall ledge]

Thanks! I wonder if that changed at some point. It worked the regular way for a long time. Crazy that they would completely change how that works.

I gave up on it and ended up using a Lutron Pico remote.

[floral vessel]

I first tried a Tapo switch, which worked OK, but the batteries ran down about every two days. I like Aqara devices, but their HA integration ability seems spotty. I have several Aqara water leak sensors and I can find no way to get them in HA.

As for the original question, I used Matter to get the switch integrated into HA. Works fine, but see my note above.

[serene geode]

I've been trying to use this for my Aqara Mini Switches but sadly the automation struggles with responsiveness to button presses. I used to have everything worked out smoothly when it was connected via Zigbee2mqtt, but I had to do a reinstall and could not get the Aqara E1 hub or switches connected either by ZHA or Zigbee2mqtt

[serene geode]

Can I ask if you were successful in tying automations with the Lutron Pico remotes without wiring to other types of bulbs?

[tall ledge]

Absolutely. You can make the pico remote trigger anything in HA

[floral vessel]

I had some trouble with responding to presses with an Aqara wireless mini switch. So I used the “hold down” to operate a light, so I hold it down until the light toggles and it works fine.

[serene geode]

Thanks for sharing. Yeah that's the current solution I have too. I've got a Skyconnect device on the way hoping I can fix it by switching back to Zigbee. I know it can work better because up until I had to reset my HA device, I had a Zigbee2MQTT installation where the switch was working great with separate functions for single press, double press, and hold

[serene geode]

It looks like people are working on solutions but it's not clear if it's entirely worked out yet

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wxkg12lm-aqara-wireless-mini-switch/683426/14

[serene geode]

@floral vessel This blueprint (from his Github link for updated version) worked perfectly for me FYI