Just a Button? 1 button, nothing more fancy?

[JDRoberts]

@James_Watts

Is this common?

For the Xiaomi? Yes. They’re pretty well-made, they’re very cheap, but they are not certified to the same protocol that SmartThings uses. They’re really only intended for use with their own Gateway. There are some community members using them successfully, but at least twice after a SmartThings platform update they’ve stopped working altogether for a little while. There’s no guarantee that won’t happen again since they aren’t certified. But again, very cheap.

You can talk to people who are using them in the following thread:

[OBSOLETE] Xiaomi Sensors and Button (beta)

Following on from the thread here I’ve starting my own thread for my versions of the Xiaomi Motion, Contact and Smart Button device handler. This is so that people are able to find my device handlers easier and concentrate any discussion specific to my version of the handlers rather than previous ones made by others. I’ve kept the status as “beta” as the actual hardware do not claim official HA1.2 compliance and are very tricky to pair initially. However, once they stay successfully paired for a few hours, they have been proven over the last couple of months to be extremely reliable. However, I think it is fair to warn people that this is no guarantee that they will continue to work in the future. More information about pairing in the original thread here and here. I would suggest pe…