Aqara Window Door Sensors and Mi Connector

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I am having issues with the Mi Connector where my Aqara door and windows sensors do not register when they are closed. If I look at the status in the Mi Home app its correct but Hubitat shows it as being still open. Anyone else had this or got any tips?

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Hubitat is probably just not polling often enough. You could set that more frequent but I am never keen on overworking the hub. There is probably a frequency that is a happy medium. I tend to as far as possible have sensors directly paired to Hubitat, which isn't really possible with Aqara in my experience.

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Aqara can work well if you are extra careful about what other devices (basically repeaters) are used. Pretty much 80% of what I use are xiaomi/aqara due to cost and availability on our side of the world.

@ifflanb I would try pairing a few directly using @chirpy's drivers to see how you get on. Also unless you really need to have them show on your mi home app I would recommend pairing directly with HE, or use zigbee2mqtt which works flawlessly with most xiaomi gear.

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Agreed. With the caveat that a stable mesh still needs Xiaomi-compatible repeaters. Fortunately, I haven't found a zigbee 3.0 device that doesn't work well as repeater for Mijia/Aqara devices.

My mesh was offline for about a week recently (power loss after a storm), and all my Mijia/Aqara sensors connected back by themselves within about 24-36 hours .....

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Thanks. I used to have my xiaomi devices paired directly to HE bUt they would drop off. That's why I moved to using the mi connector which works pretty well. It's just the aqara door sensors that are having an issue. Havent heard of zigbee2mqtt but sounds interesting.

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