Help me make this work and I will send a gift in your name to the Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too.
I have spent precious HOURS of my life trying to get these stupid MCCGQ11LM Aqara sensors to pair using Conbee 3, RBPI4, Home Assistant - latest firmware/software on everything.
The first one in a 3 pack paired IMMEDIATELY. Then, I had the hardest time getting a couple of Aqara buttons to pair, but eventually succeeded by pressing the button millions of times while pairing.
I cannot for the life of me get either of the other two sensors to pair and I don’t know what else to do but run them over with a garbage truck, send them back, and tell Amazon they arrived like that…
I have tried:
- Plugging the Conbee 3 into the USB 2.0 port on the RBPI.
- Using a 20ft USB extension so that the Conbee 3 is VERY far away from ANY potential interference.
- Holding the button down on the Aqara for 5 seconds until it blinks a bunch of times, implying it’s in pairing mode, then doing nothing else for the 3 minutes while Phoscon searches while it’s only millimeters from the Conbee 3 device with absolutely nothing else near it.
- Doing the above but then pressing the button hundreds of times.
- NOT holding it down for pairing but only pressing the button once
- Not holding it down but pressing the button hundreds of times
- New batteries on the sensor, removing and putting the battery back in and then immediately going to pair
- Restarting Home Assistant
- Restarting RBPI altogether
- Restarting the Conbee gateway and then immediately trying to pair
- Using the other USB 2.0 port on the RBPI
- Looking at the logs to see ??? something that seems like it’s trying to pair and I get nothing.
- Reading every single post I can possibly find online with this model number, this brand (Aqara/Xiaomi), Conbee 2/3/deconz/phoscon…
As far as I can tell, the only thing I haven’t tried is setting up a ceremonial fire, chanting in a circle, throwing them in the fire, and then trying to pair them. I’m sick of wasting so much time on something that should NOT be such a PITA when everything else about Home Assistant is fantastic.
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