The W500 has the ability to track when heating is switched on and off as it’s available as a trigger for Aqara automations, however it isn’t visible in the app directly or this state/state change isn’t exposed in Home Assistant (currently connected to m200 hub via zigbee, the hub is connected to HA through matter integration).
How can I get visibility of the state changes either in the app or better still in HA?
This is something which is visible in Tado, Hive and Nest thermostats and hence I was assuming this to be available for the W500.
Great thanks for the info. Is there a page or a set of feature requests which you can point me to on the future update so I can view all the features in the update?
For what it’s worth, I’ve never seen aqara add a single new feature to an already released product. They fix bugs or release new products.
I have many Aqara products and have used them for years. This is my experience over those years.
This is not a criticism of Aqara, it is an observation. They can chose to spend their engineering resources on what they believe is most profitable for them.
Thanks for this info, really useful as I think I should return the thermostats I bought for one which covers this feature. I would assume changing the temperature remotely as well as seeing when the heating is on are the two most obvious and basic features of a smart thermostat?
Our APP product manager has already incorporated this automation feature. However, the APP currently lacks a UI display indicating whether the device is operational.
Thanks. It seems that if I just use a ZigBee coordinator, and return the Aqara hub then I can get this information into home assistant. It’s a shame that the built sensors in the W500 are not exposed to the Aqara app when using the Aqara hub. Seems crazy I need to use a non-standard approach to get access to information which is a basic feature for Tado and Hive.