Hia,
Last year I bought an Aqara wall outlet H2 EU, which I have connected to my M3 Hub. I have my Dishwasher connected to this, and I cannot reach the outlet physically anymore because of that.
Now I got this connected to my Home Assistant over Matter.
Sadly, Aqara’s wall outlets nor smart plugs send their power usage over matter (should have been introduced in Matter 1.3 back at the end of 2024), which is a shame for my energy dashboard.
More annoyingly, I want to make an automation that when my dishwasher is done, so it uses 0W, it sends a notification that the dishes are ready to unload. The signal system in the Aqara app would be incredibly useful for this, making the automations possible through that, but sadly this only allows for a minimum of 1W. While my dishwasher often uses below 1W midst cycle.
I did complain about this specific problem over email with the smart plugs and outlets, and while they fixed this problem for smart plugs, the outlet has not been fixed yet.
Now this wouldn’t be an issue if I would’ve connected this plug over zigbee at the time I got it, but I did not have a zigbee dongle in my home assistant system at the time.
Is there any way I can work around this and get this worked out in any way, without having access to the plug? Or do I need to just patiently wait for the updates to roll out with Power monitoring over Matter?
