Switchbot Meter Pro gets detected as "Light Strip 6618"

[MischaFrei]

The problem

The Switchbot Meter Pro gets successfully deteced by HomeAssistant running on my Raspberry PI 4, but instead of being added as a "meter" its added as "light strip".
I already integrated an "Switchbot Meter Plus" which gets detected and integrated correctly.

It seems there was already an issue which is solved, but not for me (and regarding some blogs also not for many others).
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/support-for-switchbot-meter-pro/777103

Initial feature request was merged here: #128991

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.11.3

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

Switchbot

Link to integration documentation on our website

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

Diagnostics information

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[tillmannheigel]

It didn't work with other core version for me

[tillmannheigel]

@MischaFrei did you figure something out? I could investigate but haven’t much experience with the HA core.

[versteegp]

Same here, Switchbot Meter Pro gets detected as Light Strip

[MischaFrei]

@MischaFrei did you figure something out? I could investigate but haven’t much experience with the HA core.

No, I tried a few things which were recommended in some blogs, but nothing of these worked.

So currently I just hope for either someone who found a solution or someone who could fix that on HA side.

[MischaFrei]

@tillmannheigel @versteegp

I just found the solution.
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/support-for-switchbot-meter-pro/777103/18

1. Deactivate passive scanning (Settings -> Devices -> BT -> {YourAdapter} -> Configure)
2. Delete the Switchbot Device which is currently a "Lightstrip"
3. Immediately after the deletion, the device is detected as a meter 🎉

@Danielhiversen This seems to be a bug now 🪲

[bdraco]

This was fixed in pySwitchBot 0.52.0 which which be included in Home Assistant 2024.12.0

sblibs/pySwitchbot#265

The steps provided in #131361 (comment) will work for anyone who previously set it up.