[APP] Aqara & Xiaomi Smart Home - A different kind of Smart Home solution (Zigbee App)

[TedTolboom]

Time for some Q&A:

@MarcoGr

When I press the reset button on my device, the blue led only flashes two times and further nothing happens. After some time the app times out and reports that it took too long to add the device.

@MarcoGr

When I press the button, first the blue led stays on for.a longer time and then it flashes twice. When I release the button after more than 10 seconds and press it again, it will flash once. Whatever I try, I’m unable to connect the device(s) to Homey.

@MarcoGr

Sometimes it happens that Homey reports it is busy adding the device. But after a very long time it time outs and it isn’t able to add the device.

@MarcoGr let’s see if we can find the culprit… with support of info from the following topic

• When starting the inclusion, you select the Aqara app and then the vibration sensor and will see the specific inclusion instructions for this sensor; right? For me it is unclear if you have seen the next screen “adding device”, indicating that there has been communication between the sensor and Homey, or only saw the “time out” screen, indicating that no communication existed between both of them?

In general:

• Do you have any other Zigbee devices connected to Homey and do the work correctly (not showing red triangles / spinning circles)?
  • It might be that the Zigbee chip of Homey has not initialized properly; which can be checked by going to the developers page: Homey Developer Tools and checking if the other Zigbee devices are shown
• If you have more Zigbee devices that are connected to Homey (that are working), how many are routers and how many endpoints does the network consist of?
  • The Zigbee network (PAN) can be full if more then 20 endpoints exist per (active) router. Unfortunately Homey does not report this back during inclusion. The inclusion window will time out, without active error message back.

@Simon_Sim

Firstly, would like to thank you for the constant update to support aqara products

Not sure if this is a bug, but the two gang wall switch, switch 2 ON OFF is not able to start a flow when activated manually in homey. The success rate might be 5% after numerous activation.

Thanks!

So when controlling the second switch from the Homey UI, the trigger flowcard does not trigger a flow? That could be a bug… the flow card trigger is only triggered when receiving an update from the device (with changed state); not directly when the state is changed by the UI.

BUT the device will report the new state a few seconds afterwards; doesn’t it?