Configure Aqara M1S Gateway for Home Assistant with niceboygithub/AqaraGateway Integration

Published Nov 18, 2023

Connect to Gateway

Download the Xiaomi app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiaomi.smarthome

Create an account

Add the M1S Gateway in the app (hold button on M1S for 10 seconds to enter discovery mode)

Extract key

Folow the instuctions here: https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/Xiaomi-cloud-tokens-extractor

Copy the output

You should get an output something like the following

Devices found for server "cn":

---------

NAME: Aqara Hub M1S

ID: 12345678

IP: <gateway_ip>

TOKEN: <gateway_token>

MODEL: lumi.gateway.acn01

---------

Install the python-miio library https://github.com/rytilahti/python-miio

Install library pip3 install python-miio

Run the following to verify install miiocli device --ip <gateway_ip> --token <gateway_token> info

Should ouput something like

Model: lumi.gateway.acn01

Hardware version: Linux

Firmware version: 3.1.3_0011

Enable telnet

Run the following command to enable telent (more details here: https://gist.github.com/zvldz/1bd6b21539f84339c218f9427e022709)

miiocli device --ip <gateway_id> --token <gateway_token> raw_command set_ip_info '{"ssid":"\"\"","pswd":"123123 ; passwd -d admin ; echo enable > /sys/class/tty/tty/enable; telnetd"}'

Update M1S to work with Home Assistant

Run the following commands from https://github.com/niceboygithub/AqaraGateway

mkdir /data/bin

cd /data/bin

wget -O /data/bin/curl "http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mgl03/bin/curl?viasf=1"

chmod +x /data/bin/curl

/data/bin/curl -s -k -L -o /data/bin/mosquitto https://raw.githubusercontent.com/niceboygithub/AqaraM1SM2fw/main/binutils/mosquitto

chmod a+x /data/bin/mosquitto

mkdir /data/scripts

cd /data/scripts

/data/bin/curl -s -k -L -o /data/scripts/post_init.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/niceboygithub/AqaraM1SM2fw/main/binutils/post_init.sh

chmod +x /data/scripts/post_init.sh

Reboot M1S with reboot

Install HACS

Follow install instructions from https://hacs.xyz/docs/installation/prerequisites

Install niceboygithub/AqaraGateway Integration

Navigate to HACS > Integrations

Three dots top right > Custom repositories

Custom repository URL = https://github.com/niceboygithub/AqaraGateway

Category = Integration

Add

This may take a while, and there is a posibility you will run into GitHub rate limits

Add AqaraGateway Integration

Configuration > Integrations

Add Integration button

Seach for Aqara Gateway

Add

Host: <gateway_ip>

Password:

Access Token: <gateway_token>

Model: Aqara Gateway M1S

If everything went well you should see home assistant add some new devices

https://gist.github.com/InsaneWookie/1221cd6267745ea3c16f6a2a83ba3a44

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