Switchbot Hub 2 Matter
Leanna Perr
I can confirm that set up was very easy and it has made the Switchbot Blind Tilt I got at the same time available natively in the Apple Home app. Via Apple home app you are restricted to either open up or open down rather than the full range of movement. It is to my mind expensive at 69.99 when it can only support up to 4 switchbot devices. Another curious thing is that it shows in the Eve App as unreachable, although it clearly is.
I just paired my Switchbot Hub to HE with matter. That creates a HE device. So far I haven't found a way to create the child devices - blind/tilts and outdoor meter for me. Are blind/tilts even specified in the version of matter?
I'm probably confused. I have two 'groups' of blinds/tilt defined in Switchbot's app/hub as matter devices. Homekit see's these two groups as individual blind tilts and they open and close from Apple Home. I think I should be able to control those two blinds from hubitat too - assuming I can find the device and driver.
I don't have a switchbot hub, but do these devices have a Matter pairing code in each device? It sounds like you are trying to import the whole hub (hub to hub integration) and that won't work. You must bring in one device into Hubitat at at time.
As a matter hub, Switchbot is very limiting for example I have more than 9 of the blind tilts but they will only support 6 matter devices. They are also slow at updating their phone App and their hubs firmware. I haven't spent anytime on their forums so I can't comment but that's where I should go. Fortunately, Switchbot via matter is low priority. Interesting but low priority.
So if they are Matter, could you pair them to Alexa, Google, or Homekit and then bring them into Hubitat? Not sure if you can just bypass using the Switchbot hub completely, but with those weird and strict limitations, I would consider other methods.
They devices are bluetooth, I believe , so that makes the Switchbot hub interesting if it can do BT to matter - and it can for Homekit. Their hub is also supposed to do IR so that would be interesting as a possible Harmony replacement.
Could you please clarify, if you do bring the hub over, as I understand it, Hubitat currently doesn't see the individual devices. There will be a bridge/hub driver that brings in everything? That likely will happen in a future release?
I'm also hoping that Hubitat will release bridge drivers sooner rather than later. Both SwitchBot and Aqara have matter compatible hubs that act as bridges
and expose, at least some of, their devices through Matter.
In addition, the YoLink Hub 3 that will act as a Matter bridge for their devices is expected in the near future. I believe YoLink devices would be very beneficial to the Hubitat ecosystem as they are based on the LoRa wireless standard that has an open-air range of up to 1/4 mile.
Thanks for the offer @kkossev. Unfortunately, my C-8 is an integral part of my smart home. Testing alpha software on it would be in violation of the "wife acceptance factor" rules that I have to operate under. If I had another Hubitat hub I would gladly take you up on the offer and help out. Thanks again.
I am also very careful with my 'production' main C-8 hub which runs all the automations in my house (excluding the LAN integrations, that run on the old C-7 hub, together with some spammy Zigbee devices).
I don't have yet SwitchBot Hub 2 (Matter capable) but I will by one
but only if Curtains will be supported. My current integration is done
via Home Assistant (all controls are 100% local). It works very well
but I think more native support should/could be better.
Happened the same to me, not sure what changed but few days later staterd reporting on Celsius, the only thing I did different on those days was install the switcbot app in an iphone (originally installed on Android). But showing Celsius now in both android and iphone.
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I tried adding my switchbot hub 2 as a matter device. I get to the internet connection screen, choose the wifi then enter the password but the confirm button stays grayed out as if my wifi password isnt long enough. Any suggestions?
No. In the ST app I went to add device, selected partner device, slected matter, selected add without qr code, entered the matter code from switchbot hub2, selected my desired ST hub (i have 2), pressed the 2 buttons on the front of the switchbot hub so its blinking. ST app then proceeds to select wifi network then enter password.
BT integration detects nothing and the same with the cloud switchbot integration and even matter, connected them to the hub mini.
I connected it to smartthings so I can control it from HA but I rather use local api only
Did you ever find if there was a solution for this? I connected up my mini hub today, assuming it would bring the lock pro over to HA but no luck. The hub shows but no devices to control, essentially useless right now.
Reset the hub by holding the button down for 15 seconds until the light goes black.
In Home Assistant add a Matter device and scan the QR with your phone.
This will only add the hub which is correct.
Now you will have to add the hub to the Switchbot app.( Note that i had already added the doorlock to the app.)
Open the app, click plus and select the hub mini.
It will ask you to push the button for 3 seconds this time.
Follow the steps given, you should be able to skip the network setup as that is already configured. I did fill in the credentials anyway as i was to slow to notice the skip.
Once it is added in the app you can assign the doorlock as a subdevice.
Do this when click on the cogwheel when you selected the hub.
There you will see a Matter (Beta) section which allows you to assign a subdevice.
When the subdevice is added to the hub it should appear in Home Assistant under Matter.
Thanks for posting this, I was scratching my head with the lack of Matter instructions, thinking how on earth does this thing work with IR Works a charm, shows only the lock setting as mentioned, I know from Everything Smart Home on YouTube that this has been fed back to SwitchBot already.
I did a complete reset of 15 seconds and added the hub to HomeKit. And removed the Matter connection in HA.
Once it was paired you should be able to share the device from HomeKit to HA. Go into the hub in HomeKit and there should be a sharing/pairing option.
In HA add a new matter device and select already linked to a hub. Select HomeKit and enter the code that HomeKit provides when you share. I left the code screen open until it was paired.
Once paired you will see the hub in HA.
As we did a full reset the subdevices arent linked anymore.
I used the Switchbot app to reassign the sub devices.
Now i can use the doorlock with HomeKit and HA.
HomeKit has a similar issue with the deadbolt but looks a bit better on the status compared to the flashing in HA.
In order to get the Matter support up and running, the Hub 2 needs to be flashed with latest firmware (at the moment of writing this article the latest is 2.0-1.2). Flashing should go as easy as navigating to Hub 2 device using SwitchBot App and performing the firmware upgrade.
For that Home Assistant needs to have Matter add-on up and running. It can be installed just by adding a new matter integration from the integrations pages. The Home Assistant will query if the default matter add-on should be used and will install it after submitting.
So the first step is just instructions what you actually need (Google Nest Hub, Google Nest or Google Home not needed when using Home assistant). Going to second step the app asks kindly to reset the hub 2 and this is important to put the device in matter pairing mode.
It does find the hub 2 and finds the temperature and humidity readings on the hub.
At the moment that is the only crossover in support as the hub 2 can only add the curtains, blinds and locks, which are not currently supported by Homey.
Hopefully they will both expand supported devices at some point so the crossover enlarges.
No expert either but my understanding is different.
Homey pairs with the hue hub since hub was needed). Pairing with the matter compatible hub gives access to all lights paired with the hub even if not these are not matter compatible them selves.
The Aqara M2 hub is matter compatible but my end devices are not. The end devices (window sensor) was earlier connected to the homey via an app but. Communication is via Zigbee and now I have to many Zigbee devices (Homey accept maximum 15 Zigbee devices directly connected to the homey hub). There for I need a Zigbee hum (the Aqara M2) connected to homey vie matter giving homey access to the homey ZigBee end devices.
Here is the problem. I have tried to add the Aqara M2 hub to HomeKit. that worked flawlessly and I got access to all the window devices paired with the hub in HomeKit. The Aqara M2 hub I connected to HomeKit via Matter.
When I tried to do the same to homey it fails. Anny suggestion to what be wrong?
Here is the problem. I have tried to add the Aqara M2 hub to HomeKit. that worked flawlessly and I got access to all the window devices paired with the hub in HomeKit. The Aqara M2 hub I connected to HomeKit via Matter.
When I tried to do the same to homey it fails. Anny suggestion to what be wrong?
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