[OBSOLETE] Xiaomi Sensors and Button (beta)

[veeceeoh (Keith G)]

@chrisym

I’m having a bit of trouble with the Xiaomi Temperature and Humidity sensor.

Is this the round Temp & Humidity sensor or the square-shaped one?

@chrisym

It appears initially in my list of things in the Smartthings App as just ‘A thing’.

Which device handler are you using? I highly recommend using the most up-to-date ones on the bspranger/Xiaomi GitHub repository - please see this thread for more information and links to device handler code. The new Temperature and Humidity sensor device handler will make sure SmartThings recognizes it and not be added as a generic “Thing.”

@chrisym

only thing which wasn’t working was the battery info. I went to check it a few mins later to see if the battery info had come through, and the device had completely disappeared from my list of ‘Things’ in the app.

The first battery level report does not happen until about 60 minutes after pairing the sensor.

I have never heard of a device disappearing from the list of devices in the mobile app. Again, I recommend using the most up-to-date device handler. That may help fix this problem.

@chrisym

P.S. I have it on the ‘Netamo outdoor’ Device handler at the moment and it seems to work fine… is there any reason why that would be a bad idea?

Probably not a good idea. All of the Xiaomi devices are different in the way they report, and the way battery level is reported is different from the standard method of Zigbee devices, so using any other device handler means the battery level will never show up in the app. Please note that the a4refillpad device drivers do not correctly calculate the battery level - again, I recommend using the device handler from the bspranger/ Xiaomi repository.