Failed to connect to Switchmate

[keawepoo]

The problem

HA fails to connect to Switchmate... Ive tried to do upper and lowercase. They both come up with the same error. Im also using a pi4.

From the looks of it, It seems to be an issue with the integration being outdated? But it also seems like it works? https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/77813 https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/78004 https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/76839

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/wuf06e/comment/in49u5o/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Thank you.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2023.5.4

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Switchmate

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/switchmate/

Diagnostics information

2023-06-04 12:11:05.908 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.frame] Detected integration that attempted to call BleakClient with an address instead of a BLEDevice. Please report issue for switchmate using this method at homeassistant/components/switchmate/switch.py, line 71: await self._device.update() 2023-06-04 12:11:05.918 ERROR (MainThread) [switchmate] Failed to connect to Switchmate 2023-06-04 12:11:05.921 ERROR (MainThread) [switchmate] Failed to connect to Switchmate 2023-06-04 12:11:05.923 ERROR (MainThread) [switchmate] Cannot communicate with Switchmate

Example YAML snippet

switch:
  - platform: switchmate
    mac: "e0:bf:c1:9b:ef:do"
    name: LowerLights

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

No response

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[valkjsaaa]

I'm have a similar issue. only one Switchmate can be connected to the home assistant at a time

[keawepoo]

I'm have a similar issue. only one Switchmate can be connected to the home assistant at a time

at least you can control it... I cant... and there hasn't been any type of updates from @Danielhiversen

[danhajduk]

I'm having the same issue, is there any news about the fix? This is the error from the log file: Detected that integration 'switchmate' attempted to call BleakClient with an address instead of a BLEDevice at homeassistant/components/switchmate/switch.py, line 71: await self._device.update(), please create a bug report at https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22integration%3A+switchmate%22

[Erudition]

According to #77813 you should make sure your MAC address is in all caps. May not fix it though.

[FatDaddyDuke]

According to #77813 you should make sure your MAC address is in all caps. May not fix it though.

I was having the same issue and can confirm that entering MAC address in all caps fixed the issue for me.

[SpudsterZ]

I've never gotten this integration to work, even with the MAC address in all caps.

[Erudition]

Upgraded my BT adapter, now it works.

[keawepoo]

As I stated in the first post, I did try the MAC in all caps, and all lower. they did not work...

[Erudition]

Sorry to hear that. It may be a bluetooth adapter issue. I upgraded to one that supports Bluetooth 5 and I no longer get the log error in the OP. The switch works quickly and reliably now, even more so than Switchmate's app, lol.

[Erudition]

I also turned on Passive Scanning in the Bluetooth integration configuration. You can test connection to a bluetooth device by SSH with bluetoothctl, e.g.:

bluetoothctl
connect FC:74:63:35:1A:66

Attempting to connect to FC:74:63:35:1A:66
Connection successful

Since it's Bluetooth, you need to restart the HA machine between changes, not just reload core.

[lawrence-jeff]

Having the same issue here - can't seem to get HA to talk to this, I have the MAC in caps.. added manually and the device shows up in HA but it is always offline.

Have also tried spinning up a BT Proxy on ESP32 and I can see it talk to it in its debug log, but it never translates to Home Assistant.

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