Switch H2 EU - Double Press not available in Home Assistant

[dario_ivone]

Hy All
I have integrated the Switches H2 EU via hub M3 in Home Assistant as Matter.
I am unable to see the event double-pressed.
AM I missing something?

Thanks

[Cifer_Aqara]

Hi mate, double press and long press options are only available using Aqara Home via Zigbee. For other ecosystems only single press is available.

[dario_ivone]

Thank you @Cifer_Aqara

I have also a H1 wireless switch and the event double press and hold are available in Home Assistant. I think is more related to the H2 switches

[Cifer_Aqara]

Yea for wireless switch with no relay switches we do support these actions you are right. But for the in-wall ones, it’s not, unfortunately

[dario_ivone]

This should be true for the main button with the relay but not for the second one that is a wireless switch.

Looking online and also on this forum it seems that works but only via zigbee integration, not with matter integration in Home assistant

[david_casalieri]

I ve purchased some H2 4-buttons, and initialy I was dissapointed I couldn’t have the double click in home assistant, via homekit.

suddenly, it appeared though!! the strange thing is that it does not work for all of them. Below you see two images of the available triggers in a ha automation.

do you have the same the behavior? there is no firmware update available. So, how do i get them all to have double and long clink?

[dario_ivone]

I’ve implemented the switch via aqara hub M3 and used Matter as protocol.
In my case, still nothing on the double press.
I can see that your implementation is via HomeKit.
I actually created an automation that checks if the button is pressed twice within a second

[rchiileea]

cant you use signal to pass through the double press if its not showing for you, I know its a pain but it should work.

in home assistant create a button helper, call it h2 double press (living room or which ever room its in).

Then in aqara app profile connect to eco systems then create a signal for the double press?

then just automate when that signal is activate it presses the input bootlean

(the reasoning behind having the automation and bootleen is incase you ever need to restart or reset the m3 and messing up the signal, sometimes home assistant will play silly and kill the automation the disable it.

If you do it this way you have a option to just change the trigger in automation for the bootleen if tthen signal ends up with a different name

[dario_ivone]

I didn’t know about signals.
I didn’t test it yet, but via Aqara app (profile-> connect to ecosystems), I created a signal for the double press and chose Matter as ecosystem. In this way I can see directly a new device under matter integration in Home Assistant.
Thank you!

[jeremie_havel]

Any update on this topic, I just purchased the H2 EU DOBBLE DOCKER for the longpress feature that is listed in the zigbee2mqtt page and it doesn’t show in home assistant. I never get the long press… I want to one dimmer per button but it doesn’t work without the long press. Thanks for your help

[phylum_stapled_0i]

Thanks, @Cifer_Aqara, is there a plan to add this support to Matter in the future?
My H2 EU is connected directly to a ZBT-2 and I would really appreciate the double press and long press functionality.

[rchiileea]

@rchiileea

use signal to pass through the double press if its not showing for you, I know its a pain but it should work.

in home assistant create a button helper, call it h2 double press (living room or which ever room its in).

Then in aqara app profile connect to eco systems then create a signal for the double press?

then just automate when that signal is activate it presses the input bootlean

(the reasoning behind having the automation and bootleen is incase you ever need to restart or reset the m3 and messing up the signal, sometimes home assistant will play silly and kill the automation the disable it.

If you do it this way you have a option to just change the trigger in automation for the bootleen if tthen signal ends up with a different name

see above solution, signal is perfect for this.

[phylum_stapled_0i]

I tried a few more things by now

1. Connect the H2 to an M100 over Zigbee which is connected to HomeAssistant. This didn’t expose more than a single click event
2. Connect the H2 directly to HomeAssistant via my Zigbee dongle and Zigbee2MQTT. I got great double click, hold and release events, but couldn’t get the single click event.
3. Connecting the H2 directly to my HA Matter network. This only exposes the single click event.

I’m pretty lost since I can’t find any reliable solution which exposes all 4 types of events (single, double, hold and release). Anyone with any creative ideas?

I’m on the latest firmware for the switch (0.0.0_1626)

[phylum_stapled_0i]

I tried that and have two issues with it:

1. The double press and single press somehow trigger at the same time.
2. It also works for the Hold event, but not for the Release event so no real way to use the Hold functionality.

[andreas_roedl]

Some general notes:

• The Matter firmware only supports single presses.

• For Zigbee integrations: Multi-click must be turned on (cluster 0xFCC0, attribute 0x0286). So check if your integration has a setting for that.

For those interested: here is my SmartThings Zigbee Edge Driver for the Aqara H2 Wall Switches.

[phylum_stapled_0i]

Thank you for that.
The Matter thing is unfortunate, but I saw it and moved to Zigbee accordingly. The multi click functionality is enabled.

What I don’t understand is why I’m not getting a single click event when connected to the Zigbee dongle/bridge directly in HA (double, hold and release are reliable though).
I then don’t understand why the M100 doesn’t forward the release event. I think this is missing on the Aqara side. I.e., when you set the forwarding of the Hold signal, it should automatically also expose the release signal. Otherwise this signal is practically useless.

[phylum_stapled_0i]

After far too much time working on this, I can confirm that I wasn’t able to get a consistent single button behaviour.
I moved the switch to the HA’s Zigbee adapter which properly exposes single, double, hold and release events. Yet the single event requires a different event to reset and doesn’t work consecutively. I.e., after I press it once, I need to double press or hold before it works again.

I even deployed a custom converter in Zigbee2MQTT to try and reset the device after every event.
Nothing.

I am giving up and will be removing the H2 from my system (and my home) unless I hear of a concretely planned firmware update to fix this in the next 2-3 days. @Cifer_Aqara ?