BTHome Support for Shelly BLU Wall Switch 4

[sebinity]

The problem

Shelly sells a new wall switch, the Shelly BLU Wall Switch 4 available under this link: https://www.shelly.com/en-de/products/product-overview/blu-wall-switch. Currently, it is not supported within Home Assistant and BTHome, it is being shown as connected, correctly reports battery and packet status, but does not throw any events that are usable within e.g. automations.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.10.0

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

BTHome

Link to integration documentation on our website

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Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

Happy to provide additional context, however no events being recognized is kinda hard to show without uploading empty logs :)

Additional information

• Shelly BLU Wall Switch was updated to latest firmware using Bluetooth helper app, where button presses are correctly recognized as well.
• Information in https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/126572 did not fix the problem
• Pull Request https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/125183 also did not change anything for me unfortunately
• Screenshot of device overview screen:

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[bieniu]

BLU Wall Switch 4 is supported. You can use device automation triggers or event entities. Event entities will show up when you push a button on the device.

[sebinity]

But there are no events that can be used for triggers: Event log shows no events happening: And logs seem empty, even after frantically clicking all available button combinations.

[sebgust]

Same issue here. Device was detected by BThome integration but no events visible when buttons are pressed Edit: BT proxy device was not configured for passive mode in the Shelly integration. Solution described here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/shelly-blu-motion-is-diggity-bomb/676200/2

[thecode]

Same issue here. Device was detected by BThome integration but no events visible when buttons are pressed Edit: BT proxy device was not configured for passive mode in the Shelly integration. Solution described here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/shelly-blu-motion-is-diggity-bomb/676200/2

This is a post from June-30, we fixed the issue already, please attach your diagnostics if you still have an issue.

[sebgust]

Apologies for the misunderstanding. My edit was intended to show that it is fixed for me with the solution linked but I didn't refer to the exact post. Putting my BT proxy device (Shelly uni plus) in BT passive mode fixed it as shown in the thread https://community-assets.home-assistant.io/original/4X/4/3/1/431c1b05618d889c99b9693d52f69d5a1fa299e9.png So for @sebinity whatever device is your bluetooth receiver/proxy make sure it forwards the events to HA.

[sebinity]

Hi you all, thanks for the pointers, but I've had no luck yet. I'm using the RPi's built-in Bluetooth, and it has passive scanning activated...

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[sebinity]

Closing this issue - since Home Assistant 2024.12, events are being properly fired by the button within the BTHome integration and can be used as triggers for automations: