Aqara
Smoke Detector
Aqara Smoke Detector is a Zigbee photoelectric smoke alarm with a built-in local siren, exposing fire events to Home Assistant for whole-home alerts and escape automations.
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Roles it can fill
Life-safety device with a built-in local alarm; the Zigbee link lets Home Assistant flash lights, sound sirens, and unlock doors home-wide. Keep the local alarm as the primary warning.
Entities in Home Assistant
14 entities via zigbee2mqtt
Primary entities 11 What automations and dashboards use.
| Entity | Type | Device class | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buzzer manual alarm | binary_sensor | — | — |
| Buzzer manual mute | binary_sensor | — | — |
| Linkage alarm state | binary_sensor | — | — |
| Smoke | binary_sensor | smoke | — |
| Test | binary_sensor | — | — |
| Buzzer | select | — | — |
| Selftest | select | — | — |
| Smoke density | sensor | — | — |
| Smoke density dbm | sensor | — | dB/m |
| Heartbeat indicator | switch | — | — |
| Linkage alarm | switch | — | — |
Diagnostics 3 Health and troubleshooting values, hidden from dashboards by default.
| Entity | Type | Device class | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battery | sensor | battery | % |
| Power outage count | sensor | — | — |
| Voltage | sensor | voltage | mV |
From the zigbee2mqtt device database (zigbee-herdsman-converters
26.118.0):
the entities zigbee2mqtt creates for
JY-GZ-01AQ.
Paired through ZHA instead, the same hardware produces a different set.
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