I’m looking for ideas/help to see if there’s a way to accomplish something here…. I am trying to create automated notifications to let me know when my laundry machines are done. I have an Aqara vibration sensor and an Aqara plug to try to accomplish this.
The Aqara vibration sensor cannot pair with my SmartThings hub so it is paired with an Aqara hub which shares over to SmartThings. That automation works okay but SmartThings only sees “motion detected” and doesn’t differentiate between vibration or tilt.
The plug will pair with SmartThings but can’t see the full power usage data when it’s pairs to SmartThings. Aqara hub gets much more detailed information which I’ll need.
That’s a lot of explanation to get to my main question - is there a way to trigger an automation in SmartThings based on data on the Aqara side?
I have those Aqara Smart plugs (EU) connected directly to SmartThings hub. At least for me they report power usage to SmartThings. I have a routine for washing machine where it sends a notification when power is less than 2W more than 45 seconds. This works pretty well.
There is, however, automation capability in the Aqara app that might help you.
I’ve got one of the plug-in sockets from Aqara. It’s purpose for me was to extend the Aqara Zigbee network which has a number of Aqara sensors. The Aqara devices connect to an Aqara M2 hub and are brought into SmartThings via Matter-over-Bridge.
Not only is there no power monitoring on the SmartThings side, the power readings in the Aqara app are nonsensical. The outlet has an air freshener plugged into it that is turned on 12 hours/day, Aqara app randomly shows power usage.
are you using the aqara hub as a matter bridge to smartthings? If so, you can create virtual sensors in Aqara that will interface via the Matter bridge. They call them Signals and you can create them under Profile >Connect to ecosystems > Matter > Scene and Signal Sync >Signal Management