Hi,
I’m using an Aqara H2 EU light switch connected to Home Assistant via Aqara Hub M3 (Matter bridge). Everything works fine for single press, but I’m unable to get double press or long press events in Home Assistant.
My setup:
- Aqara H2 EU switch
- Aqara Hub M3 (latest firmware)
- Home Assistant OS 2026.4.3
- Connected via Matter
The issue:
When the switch is connected through Matter, only single press (initial_press) is exposed to Home Assistant. Double press and long press events are completely missing from the event entity.
Additionally, I’ve noticed that every time I reload the Matter integration in Home Assistant, the automation triggered by this switch fires automatically – even without physically pressing the button. This is because the Matter event entity retains its last state (initial_press) and HA interprets the reload as a state change.
Workaround I found for the reload issue:
Using an event-based trigger instead of state trigger, combined with a template condition that checks whether the event timestamp is less than 3 seconds old:
triggers:
- trigger: event
event_type: state_changed
event_data:
entity_id: event.aqara_light_switch_h2_eu_button
conditions: - condition: template
value_template: >
{{ trigger.event.data.new_state.attributes.event_type == ‘initial_press’
and (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(trigger.event.data.new_state.state)) < 3 }}
This prevents false triggers on reload, but double press is still unavailable.
Questions:
- Is double press intentionally not supported over Matter, or is this a limitation of the current firmware?
- Is there any plan to expose double press and long press events via Matter in future firmware updates?
- As a workaround, would it be possible to use Aqara automations to forward the double press as a virtual signal to HA?
Thanks for any help!